Our Favorite Quotes

[hoytedow]

Originally Posted by troy2000

Sounds good. What size do you make them?

ping-pong to tennis ball.

[Dirteater]

I wish I was a fish...
I wish I was a bass ...
I'd climb up on the rocks and trees ...
and slide down on my ....


hands and knees.

[hoytedow]

"1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation."

I wish I knew

[PAR]

Originally Posted by PAR

Have you ever stepped on a shovel just right, so it suddenly comes up and swats you crisply in the nuts? Have you ever done this repeatedly, even though you know it's going to hurt like hell? Have you ever stepped on a shovel, repeatedly slamming you balls, while stuffing 1,000 dollar bills in your worst friend's pocket, with every swat?

Judging from your questions, you should just go out in the garage and get the shovel, so you can get your nuts "tuned up". Don't forget your check book.

If looking for a less physically painful method, just write several $500 checks to "cash" and hand them to people you've never met before, expecting nothing in return. After a few weeks of this, you'll have a fair idea of what you are in for.

Aside from all the poking you've been taking, the price being asked is the value of the wood and metals as junk, so this should tell you what the boat is worth to the person selling it. He's selling it as junk, so don't expect it to be much more, without tossing at least twice that of what a good example is worth. So, if you've done searches and found good examples of Connie's (I'm assuming) take their asking price, double it and call yourself lucky, if you can get it to look as good for this much.

One of mine to a forum member looking to buy an old Chris Craft for next to nothing. It's a few years back, but I stumbled on it tonight for some reason and thought I'd share.

[ancient kayaker]

"I can't believe you just said that!" lots of people at parties I have been to

[ancient kayaker]

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated. - Epictatus

So you wish to design and build your own boat, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to define a statement of objectives, to research design ratios and their significance; to understand materials, building methods and their limitations whether you like it or no, analyze nigh unto paralysis; to abstain from copyright violations; in a word, to give yourself over to the design as to an obsession. Then in the building itself you are likely enough to freeze or fry according to the whims of weather, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely frustrated, and, after all these things, to be drowned because you didn’t know what you were doing.

[ancient kayaker]

To be honest, my favorite quotations are in my signature.

[bntii]

“If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten”

[ancient kayaker]

Originally Posted by bntii

“If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten”

- George Carlin gets the credit. Some more beat lines here -

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beat.html

[hoytedow]

Buuild a better mouse trap and the neighbors will ask if you have mice.

[bntii]

"There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures."

[ancient kayaker]

Let me guess: you've been reading Agatha Christie?

(hardly anybody reads Shakespeare . . .)

[lumberjack_jeff]

"When I think of all the arguments Marta and I have had, I realize how silly most of them were. And it makes me wonder why she wanted to argue over such stupid things. I think I'll go ask her." - Jack Handey

[hoytedow]

Originally Posted by ancient kayaker

Let me guess: you've been reading Agatha Christie?

(hardly anybody reads Shakespeare . . .)

John Marston did. He parodied Shakespeare with, "A boat, a boat, a boat, a full hundred marks for a boat!"

Boats were cheap back then.

[SheetWise]

"Words on parchment, paper, and dot-gov webpages mean nearly nothing if their meaning runs counter to the sentiments and expectations of the population. Put differently, central planning of law – dictating law consciously and from on-high – is no more likely to succeed in achieving maximum coordination of the plans, and maximum fulfillment of the desires, of multitudes of people than is central planning of the economy likely to achieve such outcomes."

-- Don Boudreaux