favorite quotes

[Avery L. Breath]

As if I have nothing really else to do at the moment, I guess I've been compiling favorite quotes lately for some reason.  I guess I'm a sucker for a good quote....... 'Yah just never know where the thread'll take yah.' -me

If, you've some favorites yourself, well this is just the tread.  

For what it's worth....... I guess these are in some kind of strange vein... vain?  


Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. -jung

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." -Lazarus Long

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" -jack

there're no denotations in reality, only connotations, -Gordon R. Dickson

strive to know less than nothing. -- unknown

Kindness in words creates confidence Kindness in thinking creates profoundness Kindness in giving creates love. --lao tzu

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man --meng ko

Always trust in allah. But that does not mean you should not tie up your camel. Sufi proverb

Talk is cheap when you're staring into the void. Book of laughingwillow

[Gkannon77]

"I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a statement."
-Charles Babbage-

"Thats like asking, what is the difference between a duck?"

"Your love for each other should exceed your need for each other"

"Nostalgia isn't what it used to be"

"I indulged myself in the various religions and philosophies but cheerfulness kept breaking through"

Not sure of the authors, but I think the last one was Leonard Cohen...?
I'll look into the others

-G7

[judih]

and from Margaret Mead:
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does"

[JRL]

What doesn't kill you just makes you stranger.
                                                       The Joker

I'm a C+ in an A minus world.
                                   St. Louis Red

[Avery L. Breath]

What doesn't kill you just makes you stranger.
                                                       The Joker

 I believe that was Niesche.... that one still puzzles me.

[JRL]

Well then the Joker was quoting him.


Another one: Don't shower with your socks on.

[Avery L. Breath]

Ahh, you wrote stranger, not stronger........... that one makes more sense.

A~

[JRL]

My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
               Woody Allen

[judih]

ha! jrl.
that just about covers it for all of us!

(and now i'm one of Them....those neurotic teachers, only at least i know i'm supposed to meditate instead of look for gum under desks)
woody allen describes a generation of poor excuses and he does it so well

[JRL]

Yes he does. One of my favorite stand up philosphers. TJ's got a Woody quote of the day app on her blog.