posted on July 27, 2000 05:49:21 PMLife is the childhood of our immortality.
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.
--Goethe
When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities. --Matt Groening
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat. --Albert Einstein
posted on July 27, 2000 06:06:21 PM
This is a good topic. I love finding quotes and can get caught up in reading them.
There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way
acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out
your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.
Mark Twain
Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like
I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
posted on July 27, 2000 10:20:22 PM
James, it means "high," like "haute couture" is "high fashion." It more or less rhymes with "quotes," and I meant it as the cream of your quote collection. Or your Timothy Leary maxims, if you will.
"The choice is always ours. Then, let me choose
The longest art, the Promethean way
Cherishingly to tend and feed and fan
That inward fire, whose small precarious flame,
Kindled or quenched, creates
The noble or the ignoble men we are,
The worlds we live in and the very fates,
Our bright or muddy star."
--Aldous Huxley,The Choice Is Always Ours
"What guarantee is there that the five senses, taken together, do cover the whole of possible experience?... There are gaps between the fingers; there are gaps between the senses. In these gaps is the darkness which hides the connection between things... The darkness is the source of our vague fears and anxieties, but also the home of the Gods."
--Alan Watts
"When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."
--Abraham Maslow
"Nobody knows what I am trying to do but I do and I know when I succeed."
--Gertrude Stein
posted on July 28, 2000 10:24:53 AM
"The first 90% of the work takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% of the work takes the other 90% of the time."
-gaffan-
posted on July 29, 2000 07:55:30 PM
If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world, and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
--E.B. White
If you wish to respect either laws or sausages, you should never see either one being made.
attributed to Bismark
posted on July 29, 2000 09:10:14 PM
"Express a mean opinion of yourself occasionally; it will show your
friends that you know how to tell the truth."
--Ed Howe
posted on July 29, 2000 11:04:51 PM
From "Proverbs of Arabia," Little Blue Book No. 121, published in Girard, Kansas in 1924:
-If begging should unfortunately be thy lot, knock at the large gates only.
-Singing without remuneration is like a dead body which lacks perfumes.
-The tongue is the neck's enemy.
-Accept information and knowledge, even from the snout of a hog.
-The world is a corpse and those who seek it are dogs.
-Do not talk Arabic in the house of a Moor.
-Rather endure the flatulencies of the camel than the prayers of the fishes.
posted on July 29, 2000 11:23:51 PM
From my files:
A physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. (Fred Allen)
Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil! (Golda Meir)
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault. (Henry Kissinger)
If you think it's hard to meet people, try picking up the wrong golf ball. (Jack Lemmon)
The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch. (Michael Friedman)
I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house. (Zsa Zsa Gabor)
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde )
Isn't humanity egocentric? Whenever we talk, we say, "Here's my two cents worth," but we only offer "a penny for your thoughts." (Ariel "The Rogue" Rogson)
Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn't expect to be paid back. (author unknown)
posted on July 30, 2000 06:03:45 PM
'cuse me, but if I may interject here for just a second~ Pareau, I was thrilled to see your mention of Girard, KS~it is my hometown going back about 10 generations from off the boat. Girard was also home to the socialist newspaper "Appeal to Reason" from the turn of the century~the most widely internationally curculated newspaper of its time.
sorry for the aside~
Karin
posted on July 30, 2000 11:25:52 PM
Karin, what a small world it really is! I'd be remiss, now, if I didn't mention the publisher: E. Haldeman-Julius (Haldeman-Julius Company). For all I know, they were still in business when you were there. Amazing to learn that the same town was home to a highly successful Socialist newspaper. Who'd a thunk it?
posted on July 30, 2000 11:49:24 PM
This was attributed to a project manager for UPS.
"This project is SO IMPORTENT we can't let anything more importent get in the way."
posted on July 30, 2000 11:56:34 PM
I have NEVER shared this with an audience before, but I have a caligraphy, framed copy of this in my bedroom and also in the hallway out of the house..It was taken from a Billboard ad for Corey Hart's "Never Surrender"LP back in the 80's, and I loved it the first time I saw it....
You Can't get where
You're going unless
You REMEMBER Where
You came from...
WHO you are
and WHAT you are
is all you REALLY own.
Never lose it..
And never...
EVER...
SURRENDER.
Those are the words I try to live by every day...sometimes I do, sometimes I don't, but the thought is always there.
Keith
I assume full responsibility for my actions, except
the ones that are someone else's fault.
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