Quips and quotes

[Kol]

Well, if you don't know what you did wrong, I'm certainly not going to tell you!
- Every sitcom wife

 

[alwaysawake]

More Groucho ones...

Time wounds all heels!

I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

He may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot.

If I held you any closer, I would be on the other side of you.

Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?

Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.

 

[Cipher]

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Lord Chesterfield

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
- Sara Teasdale



mbb..i have alot of quotes, some of them i just like..some i've used as sigs...LoL So...i'll be posting hella..if i get irritating..kick me outta here..LMAO

 

[Mysticcal]

The New England conscience … does not stop you from doing what you shouldn’t—it just stops you from enjoying it. Cleveland Amory.

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving. Erma Bombeck

And one of my favs: Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

LOL and my feelings when I started posting: I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I ought to do, but I don’t know where to begin. Stephen Bayne

Mysti

 

[1sexylady]

Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch

I use quotes all the time...

 

[Kol]

Shut up and Kiss me
- Kol

 

[mbb308]

"More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones."

St. Teresa de Avila

 

[Cipher]

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
-Aristotle

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
-T.Campbell

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness.
-Leo Tolstoy

 

[mbb308]

"Awareness is a curse."
Feodor Dostoyevsky

 

[Arden]

I Like this thread... wonder why I never saw it before today!

WALT WHITMAN...

"Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
Sooner or later, delicate death."

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, 1865-1866

Walt Whitman spent time at Campbell Hospital, on 7th St., Washington DC during the Civill War. My great-great grandfather was there at the same time. Chances are, the probably met and shared a few words. Great-great grandfather was an Irish born harness maker, a circuit-riding Methodist-Episcopal minister in Michigan, and at Campbell he was a long-term patient, preacher, and ward captain for one wing of the hospital.

Enough.
~smile~

 

[bozinka]

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. - Oscar Wilde

 

[naded]

As far as favorite quotes go my signature means the most to me. It has a very special meaning to me and is the heart of my exsistence.

 

[mbb308]

I Like this thread... wonder why I never saw it before today!

WALT WHITMAN...

"Come lovely and soothing death,
Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving,
In the day, in the night, to all, to each,
Sooner or later, delicate death."

When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd, 1865-1866

Walt Whitman spent time at Campbell Hospital, on 7th St., Washington DC during the Civill War. My great-great grandfather was there at the same time. Chances are, the probably met and shared a few words. Great-great grandfather was an Irish born harness maker, a circuit-riding Methodist-Episcopal minister in Michigan, and at Campbell he was a long-term patient, preacher, and ward captain for one wing of the hospital.

Enough.
~smile~

Interesting - quite.

My ggf was a German mercenary artillary officer for the 3rd Pennsylvania. He was briefly in command at Fort Monroe in Virginia after the war and while it was used as a prison for certain Conferderates being held for trial, including the president, Jefferson Davis.

My recently deceased great-aunt gave my his calling card with Davis's signature on the back of it.

A friend told me I should have it authenticated. Since it came through my family, and the signature looks like the one in a book I have, I think such is a needless expense.

"It is well that war is so terrible. We would grow too fond of it."

Robert E. Lee

 

[Arden]

Interesting - quite.

My ggf was a German mercenary artillary officer for the 3rd Pennsylvania. He was briefly in command at Fort Monroe in Virginia after the war and while it was used as a prison for certain Conferderates being held for trial, including the president, Jefferson Davis.

My recently deceased great-aunt gave my his calling card with Davis's signature on the back of it.

A friend told me I should have it authenticated. Since it came through my family, and the signature looks like the one in a book I have, I think such is a needless expense.

"It is well that war is so terrible. We would grow too fond of it."

Robert E. Lee

My cousin has his Civil War Diary, and about two years ago, lent it to me for transcription. Fascinating stuff. Maybe I'll get you a quote or two from the diary for this thread.

 

[Blue Dolphin]

Terminological inexactitude.

Winston Spencer Churchill

( a f****** big lie)

 

[mbb308]

My cousin has his Civil War Diary, and about two years ago, lent it to me for transcription. Fascinating stuff. Maybe I'll get you a quote or two from the diary for this thread.

That would be fascinating.

I hope your ggf did well after the war. Mine (Franz) was a ne'er-do-well who spent 25 years searching out every get-rich-quick scheme he could. His little brother, Augie, seems just as bad.

 

[Arden]

Well, I'm going to do this all together instead... just a few interesting lines from the diary...

Saturday, March 12, 1864
Have a pass to city visited President. Found a wallet
with $5,50. Advertised it. Got a satchel without cost from
W. Beal; who dealt unfairly with me in 63. Visited Mr. L*.

Sunday, March 13, 1864
Heard a good sermon by Chaplain Gaylord. Lost sheep.
The day is warm, the frogs sing out.

Saturday, March 19, 1864
Arrived in Detroit at 6.30 A.M. * at Sanitary Home, left
at 9:30 A.M. Met Dr. Thayer at General Williams.
SO - Jerome. Saginaw Judge Turner. Had a pleasant
time. Arrived at Lansing, my Home at 5.30 P.M.

Sunday, March 20, 1864
Attended church. Rev. M. Bryant, good plain Sermon.
How glad to go to the house of God with his people
and my own family. Very cold.

Thursday, May 12, 1864
Witnessed several operations on the wounded soldiers.
What a vast amount of suffering for ones country.

Friday August 26, 1864
Went to Gen. Tom Thumb exhibition. Very good music.
Performance good. Strong freaks of nature.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Recipe for Diarroha
Argenti Mit. gss. IV
Acacia Pulv. XVI
Opia Pulv. IV
M.D. ft Pills No. XII
Once in 6 hours

Milk Punch
Milk am Gal-
Whiskey " pint
eggs 6
Sugar 10 oz

*Note: The writer of the above diary did not fare well following the War. The reason he was at Campbell Hospital in DC were a broken leg that didn't heal, causing crippling rheumatism, and also having contracted Malaria... the Ague... which left him with chronic diarrohea for the remainder of his days. He was hardly able to work a full day following the war, but kept at his harness making trade, and preached at the local church on occasion. He died in 1883 at the age of 58, from pneumonia during a horribly cold winter in the city where I now live. His obituary, which I found about two years ago, is so eloquent and well written... something lacking in todays newspaper tributes to the dead...

 

[AME]

The grass is always greener on the other side......
but sooner or later it needs mowing.

Ian Grant

 

[mbb308]

Thursday, May 12, 1864
Witnessed several operations on the wounded soldiers.
What a vast amount of suffering for ones country.
[/B]

Pretty well says it all.

My ggf was court-martialled - twice. He left his family here and returned, broke, to Germany, where he died in 1890.

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all Hell."

Gen. William T. Sherman

 

[Arden]

Pretty well says it all.

My ggf was court-martialled - twice. He left his family here and returned, broke, to Germany, where he died in 1890.

"There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all Hell."

Gen. William T. Sherman

Vast amount of suffering was an understatemnent, since they did mostly amputations... and the only anesthetic was whiskey... when it was available!

 

[mbb308]

Vast amount of suffering was an understatemnent, since they did mostly amputations... and the only anesthetic was whiskey... when it was available!

And the South was much more woeful in this department. "Biting the bullet" had meaning in those days.

"The sinews of war, unlimited money."

Cicero

 

[Arden]

And the South was much more woeful in this department. "Biting the bullet" had meaning in those days.

"The sinews of war, unlimited money."

Cicero

Were you aware that there were special hospital trains for each sides, running noth / south and back, that both sides had an agreement to not fire upon?

 

[MsTerious]

I didn't read the whole thread, so forgive me if I repeat something that someone else said. That said, I have one that will give all Americans a little chuckle:

"Read my lips, no new taxes." President George Bush (sr)

Here's another one for my New England friends.

If you don't like the weather, wait a minute and it'll change.

 

[mbb308]

Were you aware that there were special hospital trains for each sides, running noth / south and back, that both sides had an agreement to not fire upon?

No.

I did know that a Virginian, George Thomas, was the best artillary officer in either army. He stayed with the US, not leaving the Army as so many Virginians did. He covered the retreat at Chickamauga, saving much of the Army of Tennessee.

After the war, it was years before his brother would speak to him. His sisters never did.

"The loyalties which centre on number one are enormous."

Winston Churchill

 

[mbb308]

I didn't read the whole thread, so forgive me if I repeat something that someone else said. That said, I have one that will give all Americans a little chuckle:

"Read my lips, no new taxes." President George Bush (sr)

Here's another one for my New England friends.

If you don't like the weather, wait a minute and it'll change.

All is forgiven.

Almost as good as "I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky." (guess who)

Sounds like the weather here.