Memorable Quotes

Beautiful!

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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...

 

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

 

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....

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

"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

 

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

Abraham Lincoln

 

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

 

Jim, are you OK?