Dawg's Quotation Thread

[Dawg]

my 2 cents
Total absence of humor renders life impossible.

Colette (1873 - 1954), Chance Acquaintances, 1952​

Thank you sweetheart!
​

 

[Slowlane]

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns (1896 - 1996)

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.
Gustave Flaubert (1821 - 1880)

Hey Elven, your AV looks as hot on this thread as it does on your own.

 

[SassyLass69]

Love sought, is good, but given unsought is better.
Shakespeare

I LOVE this thread. It's brought many smiles to my face as I've read the many quotes that you've all posted. Such a welcome change!

 

[Sulk]

On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
- Alexander Pope

 

[pleasteasme]

"It's never too late to be who you might have been." ~George Eliot




I'm working on it

 

[KlassActt9]

quotes....

You can always spot a politician....... they're the one's who insist on building bridges where their aren't any rivers.

 

[pleasteasme]

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, any one can start from now and make a brand new ending"

" The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, but in what direction we are moving." ~ Oliver Wendell

 

[KlassActt9]

more quotes....

Never try to teach a pig to sing... it wastes your time, and really pisses off the pig!

If your parent's didn't have children, chances are, you wont either.....

Never tell the truth at a social occasion.....

A hole in the bottom of a bird's nest means that while she isn't overly fond of children, she deffinitely like laying eggs....

Little girls, like butterflys, have no purpose other than that of being loved...

Never frighten a little man...he'll kill you!

The time to run is when the tar is hot, the feather's loose, and you see a whole lot of people coming towards you with a pole....

You can't hurt 'em if you can't hit 'em ...Lewis B (Chesty) Puller

(Sign on the back of a Jag) Life is too short to drive a Mercedes...

 

[pleasteasme]

"Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil." ~ James Allen

 

[pleasteasme]

I like this one!

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning." ~ J.B. Priestly

 

[bennmorland85]

“Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.” - Timothy Leary

 

[bennmorland85]

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

Do you remember who said this? It's brilliant!

 

[Dawg]

Do you remember who said this? It's brilliant!

Carl Bard

 

[TeeTee]

Suppose....From the tangle of the two
an exchange surprises the bear and the dear
become a tree
we might see
whole jungles
emerge from an embrace
~Elizabeth Herron~



Hiya Dawg

 

[Dawg]

Hiya Dawg

Hey Baby....

 

[bennmorland85]

Carl Bard

Thankee!

 

[bennmorland85]

Just found this. Might prove helpful! http://bartleby.com/73/

 

[Red8Ball]

Can't remember the author, but:

"Aim for the moon, for even if you miss, you still land amongst the stars!"

Great thread...I've been looking for something like this at a bookstore! Can't believe I found it here...of all places. Especially love the Bartlby link. Love that site too!!!

 

[bennmorland85]

http://www.kingdomrpg.com/library/common/rooseveltted4.jpg
Theodore Roosevelt
1858-1919​

“Don’t hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!”

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

“When you play, play hard; when you work, don’t play at all.”

“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em: ‘Certainly I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.”

“No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency.”

“Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.”

“There is a homely old adage which runs: ‘Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.’ If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far.”

“Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

 

[bennmorland85]

http://www.kingdomrpg.com/library/common/footeshelby1.jpg
Shelby Foote
1916-2005​

In response to an inquiry as to what particular historical moment he would most like to visit, were it possible:
“Picking any one moment or place is a romantic approach to history that I'm uneasy about. Singling out any one event from history as all-important. Every event is led up to by so many others, small and large. Besides, what you think about and where you'd want to go keeps changing. Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery. Another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy - and it was. But the way it was done led to tragedy. Turning four million people loose with no jobs or trades or learning. And then, in 1877, for a few electoral votes, just abandoning them entirely. A huge amount of pain and trouble resulted. Everybody in America is still paying for it. It would be nice to talk to Lincoln. He'd really talk to you. Maybe run circles around you. Not like others who you figure would be mostly rhetoric.”

 

[bennmorland85]

Can't remember the author, but:
"Aim for the moon, for even if you miss, you still land amongst the stars!"

I cannot say this with utter confidence, but some clues point to Galileo Galilei. However, I must reiterate, I am not at all sure that these clues are anything more than erroneous.

 

[Rebel Rose]

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.

Charles de Montesquieu (1689 - 1755)​

 

[julieG]

Love is everything it's cracked up to be...It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong

 

[Slowlane]

"We all eventually become who we pretend to be, so you'd better pretend to be something you can live with."

"Fear is a flaw -- a subtle human flaw given to us by the gods so that they can exploit us."

"You put people on a pedestal sooner or later they will fall and so will your expectations of them."

"Sometimes you have to have patience with things that annoy you."
"Don't be sorry, just improve."

"The moment you pick up a sword, you become a target."

"I am a lunatic with lethal combat skills."

"You don't want to make me mad now, do you?

Words of wisdom from Xena Warrior Princes.

 

[Red8Ball]

I saw this in a billboard, and thought some of the ladies here would like it.

"Save a horse, ride a cowboy."

I personally can't relate, cause I'd prefer some of those very ladies in here.... but I thought it was funny.