rawbunzel
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posted on November 27, 2001 08:39:55 PM
"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."
Unknown
This one seems particularly appropriate. 
Hi Antiquary! Yes the thread police are all gone. Too bad. Hardly any fun when you don't even have the possibility of getting into any trouble. Maybe we can each be a police person one day a week? What do you think? It'd be like old times!!!
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enchanted
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posted on November 27, 2001 08:41:12 PM
what website are you using Rawbunzel... I have my books but you have the power of the Internet at your fingertips 
I'll have to come up with some good upbeat quotes for tomorrow....
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 27, 2001 08:42:29 PM
Helen? What's wrong? Why are you deleting your posts? I hope I haven't upset you in some way....
I hate when this happens 
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enchanted
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posted on November 27, 2001 08:43:59 PM
I just noticed that the posts are edited too... hope you're ok Helen. I was trying to cheer you up a little. Let us know if you're ok.
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 27, 2001 08:44:03 PM
www.quotationspage.com
That is where I am finding all these delightful quotes. They seem to fit my mood. So far.
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antiquary
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posted on November 27, 2001 08:44:36 PM
Hey enchanted!
Yes, let's all take turns policing. It'll be like old times. LOL. You draw up the roster, Rawbunzel.
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antiquary
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posted on November 27, 2001 08:48:05 PM
Just saw the editing, Helen. I thought that your posts were great. I hope that you didn't misinterpret something.
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 27, 2001 08:55:42 PM
Damn it. Now I feel bad.
Guess I won't play anymore tonight.
[ edited by rawbunzel on Nov 27, 2001 09:25 PM ]
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enchanted
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posted on November 27, 2001 09:20:38 PM
yes, Helen's thoughts were very much on point for me too.
Off to dream up some inspiring thoughts for tomorrow, 'nite all.
Tomorrow is a brand new day.
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antiquary
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posted on November 27, 2001 11:41:58 PM
Robert Frost :
Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying…. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward.
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sweetpotato
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posted on November 28, 2001 12:41:28 AM
"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way"
{Late for the party again and and I've missed all the good stuff...}
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hjw
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posted on November 28, 2001 07:04:19 AM
Good one, Sweetpotato
Stusi, your quote,
"A society can be judged by the way it treats its animals". Mahatma Ghandi
reminded me of William Blake...
"A dog starved at his master's gate predicts the ruin of the state."
Helen
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hjw
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posted on November 28, 2001 07:08:32 AM
Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.
John F. Kennedy
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enchanted
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posted on November 28, 2001 07:24:17 AM
Good morning sweetpotato and Helen!
I like that quote from John F. Kennedy.
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saabsister
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posted on November 28, 2001 07:56:53 AM
"If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign."
George W. Bush
"The public have an insatiable curiousity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
-- Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, 1891
"There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance."
Goethe
Okay, now I'm off to find more uplifting quotes!
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snowyegret
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posted on November 28, 2001 08:10:05 AM
To do good is to do so in the minute particular.
The general good is the refuge of the fool and the scoundrel.
-William Blake
You have the right to an informed opinion
-Harlan Ellison
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donny
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posted on November 28, 2001 10:03:37 AM
Work is the curse of the drinking class
Oscar Wilde
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antiquary
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posted on November 28, 2001 01:21:25 PM
Research is an organized method for keeping you reasonably dissatisfied with what you have.
--Charles Kettering
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saabsister
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posted on November 28, 2001 01:30:02 PM
So true, antiquary.
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julesy
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posted on November 28, 2001 05:18:28 PM
Guns are always the best method for private suicide. Drugs are too chancy. You might just miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time. — P.J. O'Rourke
Using a complex, sophisticated technique to get a man excited is like preparing a gourmet French meal for a Labrador retriever. — Dave Barry
It's been that kind of week 
BIG Ubb-ooops
[ edited by julesy on Nov 28, 2001 05:20 PM ]
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hjw
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posted on November 28, 2001 05:48:04 PM
Julesy
Another suicide...
Razors pain you; Rivers are damp;
Acids stain you; And drugs cause cramp.
Guns aren't lawful; Nooses give;
Gas smells awful; You might as well live.
Dorothy Parker
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dolly33
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posted on November 28, 2001 05:53:11 PM
I have done so much, with so little, for so long I am now qualified to do anything with nothing (my life) author unknown
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hjw
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posted on November 28, 2001 06:15:18 PM
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons
T.S. Eliot
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saabsister
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posted on November 28, 2001 06:30:15 PM
"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."
Ivana Trump
"They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days."
Garrison Keilor
"The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible."
TS Eliot
"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note."
Gore Vidal
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
Dorothy Parker
These were a few quotes I found by and about writers.
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antiquary
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posted on November 28, 2001 06:33:53 PM
saabsister - LOL, those are great!
Hi Julesy.
One of my favorite lines from Eliot, Helen!
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 28, 2001 06:34:23 PM
"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking."
John Maynard Keynes
"All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure."
Mark Twain
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it."
Frank Zappa
" Realism...has no more to do with reality than anything else."
Hob Broun
"Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that
electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house."
James Thurber
I am really enjoying all these quotes!
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julesy
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posted on November 28, 2001 06:44:02 PM
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. -Thomas Edison
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. -Galileo Galilei
Heya Dan
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antiquary
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posted on November 28, 2001 06:44:29 PM
Well, since we're doing multiples,
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
Oscar Wilde
It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.
Tallulah Bankhead
I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia Wolfe
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rawbunzel
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posted on November 28, 2001 06:52:41 PM
"The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism."
Norman Brenner
"There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead."
Arthur Honegger
" I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
Charles De Gaulle
"I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother."
Artemus Ward
" Now and then an innocent man is sent to the legislature."
Kin Hubbard
Multiples are best, Antiquary!
Some of these quotes are slightly disturbing.
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antiquary
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posted on November 28, 2001 06:59:54 PM
Yes, there's something to be said for multiples, my personal choice is three, but I've never been adept at multi-tasking.
Maybe we need some Freud quotes, or would those be more disturbing.
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