There are so many sayings I like, that I find it impossible for me to post just one as a signature line. A few likely sayings might be the any of the following:
During your life, be mindful of the young, the old, the ill, the well, the rich, the poor, the weak, and the strong, because during your life, you'll be all these things.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'... till you can find a rock.
Regarding Civil War quotes I always liked Robert E. Lee's quote of Dec 13, 1862 at the battle of Fredericksburg best. It was an overwhelming Confederate victory and slaughter of Union troops, though nothing to rejoice about. In fact this will be covered in the Civil War series Part III tonight.
"It is well that war is so terrible else we should grow too fond of it."
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Okay. I'm just going to refresh myself with some of the great thoughts you people shared here, and add a couple more.
"Hell, is not a place created by a God bent on getting even, but the alienation we choose for ourselves. Heaven, on the other hand, is for lovers--of others and of God."
"No one, ever, can give the exact measure of his needs, his apprehensions, or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when we want to move the stars to pity."
I have a map of the United States. Actual size. ---Stephen Wright.
"I have only three brain cells left. But I've gotten to know each of them very, very well."
Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy)
"The essence of sleight of hand is distraction and misdirection. If smoeone can be convinced that he has, through his own perspicacity, divined your hidden purposes, he will not look further."
Famous last words- " They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance." Uttered by Gen. John Sedgwick, May 9, 1864 at the battle near Spotsylvania. Struck in head by rifle bullet and killed moments after he spoke them.
'The Ox is slow, but the Earth is patient'
Spoken in an old movie by Chinese peasant farmer to an agricultural advisor who touted the advantages and time savings of using a tractor rather than an ox to till his field. I like this one particularly when being offered new, improved computer technology to shave those nanoseconds off the processing time.
You guys have knocked me out with some of your contributions to this. There are so many I would like to comment on, but there are just too many, and they're all good.... thank you. I love reading these things. Clankeye
Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is a dream, all we really have is now - unknown
Life is short - eat dessert first!
Cecil Total Copper Nutcase - African, British Ships, Channel Islands!!! 'Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup'
Ccrdragon, yours sounds like the "Reader's Digest version" of the ancient Sanskrit writing:
Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life... For yesterday is already a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision; But today, well lived, makes every yesterday A dream of happiness, and every tomorrow a vision of hope.
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During your life, be mindful of the young, the old, the ill, the well, the rich, the poor, the weak, and the strong, because during your life, you'll be all these things.
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie!'... till you can find a rock.
A closed mouth gathers no feet.
Don't squat with your spurs on.
"The strongest oaks grow where the strongest winds blow."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
This sign hung over the high school basketball gym, that I played in during the 60's.
When the one great scorer comes to write beside your name,
It's not whether you won or lost, but how you played the game.
Regarding Civil War quotes I always liked Robert E. Lee's quote
of Dec 13, 1862 at the battle of Fredericksburg best. It was an
overwhelming Confederate victory and slaughter of Union troops,
though nothing to rejoice about. In fact this will be covered
in the Civil War series Part III tonight.
"It is well that war is so terrible else we should grow too fond of it."
My website
- Abraham Lincoln -
"Zen and the art of marriage: Be one with the doghouse. Enjoy the brief sojourns out of the doghouse." (JM Pearson)
"Hell, is not a place created by a God bent on getting even, but the alienation we choose for ourselves. Heaven, on the other hand, is for lovers--of others and of God."
"No one, ever, can give the exact measure of his needs, his apprehensions, or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked cauldron on which we bang out tunes that make bears dance, when we want to move the stars to pity."
I have a map of the United States. Actual size. ---Stephen Wright.
WC: "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."
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1 Russ POTD!
Sir, you are drunk!
Winston Churchill to female:
Madam, I may be drunk, but you are ugly... in the morning I shall be sober.
(Churchill on people: We are all worms. But, I do believe I am a glow-worm)
Hugh Romney (Wavy Gravy)
William S. Burroughs, Cities of the Red Night
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My motto is "obscurius per obscurum" (explaining the obscure by means of the more obscure).
Obscurum per obscurius
Camelot
Uttered by Gen. John Sedgwick, May 9, 1864 at the battle near Spotsylvania. Struck in head by rifle bullet and killed moments after he spoke them.
'The Ox is slow, but the Earth is patient'
Spoken in an old movie by Chinese peasant farmer to an agricultural advisor who touted the advantages and time savings of using a tractor rather than an ox to till his field. I like this one particularly when being offered new, improved computer technology to shave those nanoseconds off the processing time.
-- Author Unknown
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. Freud
Camelot
Clankeye
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My shiny cents
Samuel Clemens
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Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
Dan
Yesterday is gone, tomorrow is a dream, all we really have is now - unknown
Life is short - eat dessert first!
Total Copper Nutcase - African, British Ships, Channel Islands!!!
'Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup'
Look to this day!
For it is life, the very life of life...
For yesterday is already a dream,
and tomorrow is only a vision;
But today, well lived,
makes every yesterday
A dream of happiness,
and every tomorrow
a vision of hope.
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