Memorable Quotes

[the1much]

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
- Oscar Levant
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
- Jerry Garcia
Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
- Ernest Haskins
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.
- Charles Kuralt
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away.
- Ronald Reagan

[the1much]

No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
- Elbert Hubbard
Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
- Philip K. Dick
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
- Thomas H. Huxley

[the1much]

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
- Foster's Law
There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.
- Denis Diderot
The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.
- Art Spander
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
- Woody Allen

[the1much]

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
- Tom Hanks
There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
- Booth Tarkington
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
- Max Beerbohm
The reverse side also has a reverse side.
- Japanese Proverb

[the1much]

Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.
- Jackie Mason
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
- Dan Quayle
A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.
- Herman Melville
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
- George Orwell

[bntii]

“If we could first know where we are and wither we are tending we could then better judge what to do and how to do it.”

Abraham Lincoln

[the1much]

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
- Robert McCloskey
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
- Paul Valery
Fall not in love, therefore; it will stick to your face.
- National Lampoon
Committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
- Fred Allen

[the1much]

Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people.
- James Russell Lowell
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
- John Wayne
'So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim?'/ 'Well, that would be a start.'
- Peter Stone
Nancy Reagan fell down and broke her hair.
- Johnny Carson

[the1much]

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
- George Bernard Shaw
Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
- Bertrand Russell
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.
- Stanislaw J. Lec
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
- Anonymous

[the1much]

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us.
- Maurice Maeterlinck
This is like deja vu all over again.
- Yogi Berra
We need a president who's fluent in at least one language.
- Buck Henry
Some things have to be believed to be seen.
- Ralph Hodgson
There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.
- Richard Feynma

[the1much]

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
- Rudyard Kipling
He was a genius - that is to say, a man who does superlatively and without obvious effort something that most people cannot do by the uttermost exertion of their abilities.
- Robertson Davies
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
- Franklin P. Jones

[Meanz Beanz]

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
- Rudyard Kipling

Beautiful!

[the1much]

Here's a rule I recommend: Never practice two vices at once.
- Tallulah Bankhead
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
- Tom Stoppard
God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
- Sir William Bragg
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler
Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

[the1much]

Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
- Havelock Ellis
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.
- E. B. White
Nothing you can't spell will ever work.
- Will Rogers

[masalai]

Hi Jim, your C & P's have significant and timely relevance... Have you been saving these especially for the now? Be Blessed...

[the1much]

hiya Mas. ,,, nope,, not saving them,, it just worked out real "timely" ;)
hope all is well ;)

[masalai]

Thanks Jim, Just plodding along with a bit of abuse from LJ.... I still need a buyer for the homes.... - I wanna go sailing on my own boat...

[Meanz Beanz]

Rich boat owners are desperate to unload... offer a trade. :D

[masalai]

I don't want a fuel guzzler, but a 39C motor-sailor... & Bob Oram's design is very close to what all my efforts were heading for - so why redesign the wheel?

Steep slope behind home, but facing west, and will hear all traffic chugging up the hill, is asking 700K? - more land less value 1342 sq. M as opposed to 832 sq M with a house with views & cooling sea breezes, sheltered from hot western afternoon sun & sheltered from cold southerly gales....

[the1much]

I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
- Jack Handey
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

[the1much]

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
- Evan Esar
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
- Rodney Dangerfield
To be positive: To be mistaken at the top of one's voice.
- Ambrose Bierce
The trouble with jogging is that the ice falls out of your glass.
- Martin Mull

[the1much]

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George F. Will
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
- Sydney Smith
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?
- Jean Kerr
As I was walking up the stair / I met a man who wasn't there. / He wasn't there again today. / I wish, I wish he'd stay away.
- Hughes Mearns

[gary1]

"If you hang around with a cripples you will end up with a limp"
Told to me by a mate of mine after doing 3 months for being with the wrong people at the wrong place at the wrong time.

" Never do buisness with a person unless you are in are able to grab them by the throat if the need arises " Told to me by an old mate of mine who goes by the name the "Bear' sometimes. I should have listened and taken more notice of it on several occasions.

Gary

[bntii]

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

Abraham Lincoln

[the1much]

You know, you can't please all the people all the time... and last night, all those people were at my show.
- Mitch Hedberg
I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
- Beryl Pfizer
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'
- Roy Blount Jr.
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
- Bert Leston Taylor

[masalai]

Jim, are you OK?

[the1much]

sorry Mas.,, been real freakin sore this week,, hurt my damned neck by tripping over 1 of the girls,, and feel like sh!t. ,, i just came out of bedroom, waiting for my 6 year old to get home, cause she really wants to help me butcher 2 ring neck pheasants,, dont even feel like moving,, but other then that,, doing o.k. .
finally realizing that every winter my neck feels worse and worse,, dam i need to retire, make the wifers get a job,, im ready for a vacation !!

hows all with you and yours?

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One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
- Andrew Carnegie
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
- Gustave Flaubert
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
- Georges Clemenceau
Organized crime in America takes in over forty billion dollars a year and spends very little on office supplies.
- Woody Allen
Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

[masalai]

Well thanks Jim, been posting on my usual "Global politics...", "Boat Jokes", "The Drivel Thread", "A grumpy old bath....", and Fanies thread "Boxy Fisher.....", and limit posts there usually whilst your countrymen are still upset with "Aussy stirers".....

God Bless and take care...

[the1much]

well ,, if their not mad at aussies,, their mad at south africans,, after that is their last resort,, and us hippies take it,, lol,, but all we do is laugh @ em all ,, hehe ;)

[bntii]

damn hippies!

:D

[masalai]

I can see that you are laughing too bntii.... :D:D:D:D You forget I am in spiritual form.... (Masali, loosely translated from PNG tok-pisin is "ghost or spirit"...)

[the1much]

http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/xsmall2/348_hippie_dude.gif (http://www.clipartof.com) http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/xsmall2/2401_smokers_in_love.gif (http://www.clipartof.com)

[masalai]

What think ye of my clipart here - http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/open-discussion/global-politics-economics-lies-witchcraft-22206-103.html#post237870 ? Bugger, How do you post those emoticons? http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/xsmall2/2238_innocent.gif (http://www.clipartof.com) Ah Haaaaaa

[the1much]

i go to this site,, and click the 1 i want , then copy the "BBcode"
http://www.clipartof.com/new/emoticons/1.html
http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/xsmall2/1928_middle_finger.gif (http://www.clipartof.com)

hehe ;)

[the1much]

hahahhaa ,,, that pic looks like my family reunions hahaha ;)

[masalai]

Amongst many things I have been called "a pain in the neck" is one of them so I hope yours is not too painful or long lasting - I like the finger..... It takes a little while to cycle and I didn't see it the other day (I gotta look at the keyboard when I type and only look up to see if I have any red squiggly underlines (spelling errors).....

[masalai]

As a sign of the times I am inspired to misquote Shakespeare - Mark Anthony's speech at the murder of Caesar...

Friends, Romans, countrymen (cockroaches), lend me your ears (listen well you brainwashed destitute peons, arise and defend your dwindling personal assets and resources)... The evil that men do lives after them (except for bankers and other financial wizards who shall always remain blameless - having harvested/STOLEN immense wealth from you all - - and for even the most horrendous of crimes) the good is oft interred with their bones (except for modern day politicians and other "public worthies" who ensure they are graciously remembered for their charitable works and edifices in the forecourts of distinguished Universities, Libraries and other "public buildings" funded by some of their criminal activities) So let be with Caesar (and all the lying, cheating thieving and murderous swine who enforced the good citizens of the world into destitution, debt and other fiscally derived misery) The noble Brutus (a murderer) hath told you that Caesar was ambitious (another greedy bastard who was looking after himself) and if this were so then grievously hath Caesar answered it (and a great pity that many more guilty of pillaging their own country did not suffer likewise)....

[the1much]

There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
- W. Somerset Maugham
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers
My work is a game, a very serious game.
- M. C. Escher
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.
- John Mason Brown
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben

[masalai]

Hi Jim, If you have not been reading quietly then you have a lot of catching up to do.... Houses sold but Buderim not quite settled yet.... Slander & defamation laws inhibit any further discourse, apart from declaring it is causing me extreme mental stress and anguish....

Moved in to a small cottage whilst preparing to build boat & then retirement home" if the money extends that far - the vageries of the market and investments do nothing for confidence in ones future prospects.... Planned retirement? - no such thing - when one has to rely on some economic certainty and stability....

The European banking sector is expected to crash like a castle made of cards as a consequence of "investment in new eastern European countries (ex USSR & now part of the Euro community)".... Bigger bang than so far in USA?..... Does that leave Australia and NZ as the only bastions of English language to survive (unless we go out in sympathy/apathy... :D:D:D:D ?????????????

[the1much]

hiya Mas.. trying to catch up on the reading,, but think maybe i'll just jump in and not worry whats already been said hehe ;)
glad ta hear bout the house,, well, 1 house gone is better then neither..
im on the usual,, "ta hell with the economy" still,, me and the family got an airstream camper, gonna camp out for 2 or 3 months, save some cash, then we're on our way to Maine. im tired of missing home. to many "family" problems here,, and going to a place where we'll have a big 3 story house on the side of a mountain,, an hour away have a cottage on the lake,, and way up north, a hunting cabin. getting rid of my birds,, will start up again in Maine. and in the process of moving things to storage now.....
man im getting old....

[masalai]

Jim, Build a boat then where you go so does your home - no more of this packing and unpacking.... This has been an experience I do not wish to repeat... Less possessions = a simpler life, Just plant gardens everywhere, then when I come back should have pumpkin, cue-comber, watermelon, banana, pineapples and pawpaw/papaya etc..... :D:D:D

[the1much]

Jim, Build a boat then where you go so does your home - no more of this packing and unpacking.... This has been an experience I do not wish to repeat... Less possessions = a simpler life, Just plant gardens everywhere, then when I come back should have pumpkin, cue-comber, watermelon, banana, pineapples and pawpaw/papaya etc..... :D:D:D

we're gonna try the "self sufficiency" thing,, have the gardens ( also with the deal comes 100 acres of farm land to use as we want) the animals,, still do my "side jobs" and since i'll be in maine,, start doing some odd boat jobs,, least the easy ones ;)
i need to SLOW down,, at this rate i'll be crippled like they said i would :rolleyes:
if the wifers would get over her fear of water,, would make the "build a boat" way easier hehe ;)

[masalai]

Just say as I say, I can't swim, you fear water so we are in the same boat (extra careful) and the boat is robust and capable of comfortable voyages and I have no intention of going out in stormy weather, or where we cannot quickly flee to safety - up a creek (shallow draft).....

[the1much]

wait till she's sleepin,, throw her in the boat,, let her wake up 100 miles off shore,, then, cut the coil wires,,, bet by the time we get back,, she's "used" to the water :D

[masalai]

Oh that is not nice Jim? I thought we were using subtle coercion? to instil a joy of being a partner at sea? :D:D:D

[the1much]

partner,,, prisoner,, their the same to me hehe ;)

[bntii]

"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money."
James Madison

[ancient kayaker]

It's hard to soar with eagles when you work with turkeys (Molniya Research and Industrial corp, Russian Space Shuttle Builder)
It takes 2 to tangle (D. Parton)
Your next boat will be bigger than your last (W. Pirrie, Titanic Designer)
If you can keep your head when all around you are losing theirs then you're next (Red Queen)
There are no old, bold boaters but there are lots of old bold idiots (Darwin)
What kind of idiot reads this entire thread at one sitting (T. Haines)

[bntii]

"Here's the damned daylight back again"

Herakles

[masalai]

If you are an old surfer then you know how to dance like Jabiru (Xenorhynchus asiaticus), or Brolga (Grus rubicundus), doing their dance... and you do not even have to be a turkey to dance... :D:D:D

[bntii]

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
-Woodrow Wilson

[ancient kayaker]

Never trust a survivor until you know what he (or she) did to survive. Man Friday

[ancient kayaker]

"Boats are like rabbits, you can have one or many, but not two"
-Aristotle Socrates Onassis

[ancient kayaker]

“Divorce is from the latin word meaning “to rip out a man’s testicles through his wallet.”
- Robin Williams
“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful things that money can buy.”
- Tom Clancy
“You know that look that women get when they want sex? Me neither.”
- Steve Martin
“Having sex is like playing bridge, if you don’t have a good partner you’d better have a good hand.”
- Woody Allen
“Sex at age 90 is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.”
- George Burns
“Women complain about menstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month I can be myself.”
- Roseanne
“Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.”
- Billy Crystal
“Instead of getting married again, I’m just going to find a woman I don’t like and give her a house.”
- Rod Stewart
“See, the problem is that God gave men a brain and a penis and only enough blood to run one at a time.”
- Robin Williams
"You want to dance?"
- Masalai
"Have you seen the others?"
- Spike Milligan

[masalai]

I said that? - - Oh well, do you?

[Frosty]

You may not be able to find answers at the bottom of a bottle, but you can find help.

Me!

[masalai]

Wot, to empty the bottle? - - or - - pay for another one or two or...

[ancient kayaker]

I said that? - - Oh well, do you?

Well, I might, if a really nice-looking Meleagris Gallopavo Silvestris were to ask me.

[masalai]

I do not know the Latin name but how about a "dancing Brolga"? They do something like the "surfies stomp" of the 60's/70's era as part of their mating ritual - rather rare - and protected - - - - (I am not one:D:D:D)

[ancient kayaker]

The only dance I can do well is the Gully Gully. I may be the last one on the planet.

[Frosty]

Have your ever see a baby Elephant standing waving its trunk about. Well that about 7 times better dancing than I could ever do.

I can do the "get drunk and fall over dance"

I hate dancing,-- which is why going to parties was difficult for me and mixing with the opposite sex was --uncomfortable. I had a glass eye in those day and the girls didnt like it because it would drop down and it would look like I was looking at there tits. I did meet one girl who did'nt mind if i took it out while we talked. I remember her asking if I would be there next week and I unfortunately replied " yes I will I'lle keep my eye out for you".

Sigh,--I should have said something else.

[ancient kayaker]

The war will be over in 6 weeks
-A. Hitler
the war will be over in 6 weeks
-G. W. Bush
the war will be over in 6 weeks
-Edward III (started the 100 years war)
the war will be over in 6 weeks
-Hadrian (invaded Palestine)

[Frosty]

Where all this fking water coming from --capt Titanic.

How close can you get to that Ice burg?---first officer Titanic.

[ancient kayaker]

We're running out of ice, get some more.
-barman, Titanic

[masalai]

Here is one that possibly can be described in :Frosty talk as " - - I resemble that - - " - - “My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth." - - George Washington

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
Abraham Lincoln

“You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
Abraham Lincoln

“War is the unfolding of miscalculations."
Barbara Tuchman

“In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
Ernest Hemingway

“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out...without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable"
H.L. Mencken


“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
Abraham Lincoln

“Give me liberty or give me death."
Patrick Henry

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
Thomas Jefferson

"The US government is on a “burning platform” of unsustainable policies and practices with fiscal deficits, chronic healthcare underfunding, immigration and overseas military commitments threatening a crisis if action is not taken soon."
David M. Walker

“Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful mastercharacter, give him power."
George Washington

“Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer."
Grover Norquist

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
Mark Twain

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."
Voltaire

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do."
Harper Lee


“When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object."
Patrick Henry

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
Thomas Jefferson

[bntii]

"Lets start here."