August 12, 200520 yr If something is too hard,give it up. The moral my boy is too never try anything Homer Simpson
August 12, 200520 yr Although gold dust is precious, when it gets in your eyes, it obstructs your vision. Hsi-Tang totster
August 12, 200520 yr It's not easy, being green. - Kermit <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I would imagine is isn't... totster
August 12, 200520 yr Author It's not easy, being green. - Kermit <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ...a.k.a. Randy Newman - an American songwriter of genius.
August 13, 200520 yr Author "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." --Martin Luther King, Jr. American baptist minister and civil-rights leader. 1929-1968
August 14, 200520 yr Author "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein German born American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955
August 14, 200520 yr As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)
August 14, 200520 yr I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald Reagan
August 15, 200520 yr Author "Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed" --Mahatma Gandhi Indian philosopher, internationally esteemed for his doctrine of nonviolent protest, 1869-1948
August 15, 200520 yr "I truly believe that we are now fighting the WOT on three fronts… Afghanistan, Iraq and Hollywood." --Ann Coulter .
August 15, 200520 yr "Thoughts.... should last for more than just one day"-- Daniel Edit/ not so famous author's name... Edited August 15, 200520 yr by baht&sold
August 15, 200520 yr "Thoughts.... should last for more than just one day"-- Daniel <{POST_SNAPBACK}> ...and so should parties... totster
August 16, 200520 yr Author "Q: What do you get when you cross an insomniac, an agnostic, and a dyslexic? A: Someone who stays up all night wondering if there is a Dog." --Groucho Marx Jewish philosopher (who had some brothers).
August 16, 200520 yr "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”-Orson Welles as Harry Lime in The Third Man source ...and a place for the filthy rich to hide their ill-gotten assets.
August 16, 200520 yr If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em. - Yogi Berra
August 17, 200520 yr Author "Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." --Benjamin Franklin American statesman, scientist, philosopher, printer, writer and inventor. 1706-1790
August 17, 200520 yr "Civilization will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe." - Winston Churchill
August 18, 200520 yr Edited August 18, 200520 yr by Jai Dee Taoism: shit happens Buddhism: if shit happens, it isn't really shit Islam: if shit happens, it is the will of Allah Catholicism: if shit happens, you deserve it Judaism: why does this shit always happen to us? Atheism: I don't believe this shit
August 18, 200520 yr Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend. Margaret Thatcher totster
August 18, 200520 yr Did I put the cat out? Usually the last thought of the day that suddenly pops into your head from nowhere when your jumpin' yer wife's bones.
August 18, 200520 yr Author "The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye." --Winston Churchill British orator, author and prime minister during World War II. 1874-1965
August 18, 200520 yr You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. – Plato
August 18, 200520 yr Author You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. – Plato <{POST_SNAPBACK}> This looks like the first shot in a touch of political agitation for an "Over 50's Forum", where the wise can sit in judgement on the rash young bloods. I'm for it.
August 18, 200520 yr Author For the young shall rise and cast down the old. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> But it never happens, does it? And you know why? Because the old are wise enough to make sure it is only their sons and daughters who take over when they are passed it.
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