I love quotes! Saw this today and just thought I'd share... Today's Quote When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail. -Abraham Maslow
Posted by Joey Madden (Member # 1192) on :
Perfection' its what I look for and what I live for - Joey Madden
Posted by Al Checca (Member # 2216) on :
I always loved this one. I use it in my tag line on a few boards I hang out on..
People asking questions lost in confusion, Well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions Well they shake their heads and look at me as if I've lost my mind...............
John Lennon
Posted by Jeff Spradling (Member # 1615) on :
Jane…just last night at a meeting one of our local icons Jack Wolf (you might remember him from the walldog thing here) said one I had never heard before.
“He kept his car so clean and polished a fly couldn’t even stand up on it”
Jeff
[ September 19, 2006, 11:26 AM: Message edited by: Jeff Spradling ]
Posted by Sonny Franks (Member # 588) on :
That's a great one, Jane. I love quotes too. One of my favorites is Albert Einstein's reply when asked the difference between genius and stupidity: "Genius has its limits."
Posted by Susan Banasky (Member # 1164) on :
Some of my favorites: Life is not measured by how many breathes we take, but by how many precious and magical moments we have that take our breathe away.
To the world you might be one person.... but to one person you might be the world.
I can't choose how I feel, but I can choose what I do about it!
Have a great day!
Posted by Glenn Taylor (Member # 162) on :
"I'm a very lazy person and I work very hard at it." - Me.
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Posted by Jill Marie Welsh (Member # 1912) on :
One of my faves is by Russ McMullin:
"That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place."
(about a layout) I have others too, but that is what popped into my head. I even have it as my signature, but I never use that feature anymore. Love....Jill
Posted by Laura Butler (Member # 1830) on :
"Can't means WONT""
Posted by Susan Banasky (Member # 1164) on :
Failure is not fatal!
Posted by Si Allen (Member # 420) on :
"Do unto others....then RUN!
Posted by Dana Blair (Member # 951) on :
Busier than a cat burying sh!t on a marble floor!
Posted by Jill Marie Welsh (Member # 1912) on :
With a wooden leg! love...Jill
Posted by jimmy chatham (Member # 525) on :
politicians are like diapers. they need changing often & for the same reason
Posted by Doug Allan (Member # 2247) on :
"you get what you settle for"
yeah, I know... maybe it's time for a new one.. but that one still speaks to me.
Posted by Eric Houser (Member # 4461) on :
"It's not how he starts that makes the man, but how he chooses to finish."
Posted by Janette Balogh (Member # 192) on :
I have several, ... I also collect them.
Here's one of my favs:
"Fall down seven times, stand up eight". --------------- old chinese proverb.
Posted by Catharine C. Kennedy (Member # 4459) on :
It's like eating an elephant- you go one bite at a time.
It's NOT open-heart surgery!
Posted by Amy Brown (Member # 1963) on :
"Use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without" - My "Mymama" (Grandma)
"Don't be afraid to fail, be afraid of the chances you miss when you don't even try" - unknown
Posted by Charles Borges de Oliveir (Member # 3770) on :
A mistake is proof someone tried
Posted by jake snow (Member # 5889) on :
"The world is full of pecker chips.......and I am apparently the dip..."
"Sh#t happens, just don't stick around to smell it"
"If all the world is a stage, I'd like to speak to the director please...."
Posted by Jill Marie Welsh (Member # 1912) on :
Some of my ex-father-in-law's...a very colorful man.
The more you stir sh!t, the more it stinks. This weather is drier than a popcorn fart. He's tighter than a crab's ass...and that's watertight.
love....Jill
[ September 19, 2006, 05:24 PM: Message edited by: Jill Marie Welsh ]
Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :
well, if we are going THAT direction... Be Humble. You're not that great. - Golda Meir Anything is possible if you don't know what you are talking about. The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act. After your hands become coated with paint, your nose will itch or you will have to pee. If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. But I can usually shut her up with cookies.
Posted by Arthur Vanson (Member # 2855) on :
Inside me lives a skinny woman crying to get out. (Edina Monsoon) Just the one, dear? (Edina Monsoon's Mother)
Posted by Rick Beisiegel (Member # 3723) on :
"The only time he lets go of a nickel is to get a better grip"
"We have a deal with the bank, we don't extend credit, and they promise not to sell signs"
"There's no softer pillow than a clear conscience" - my sister
Posted by Jill Marie Welsh (Member # 1912) on :
"He'd take sh!t off of a shovel and it wouldn't even have to be warm!" (again with the father-in-law, about a moocher type person) Sorry this is going downhill, Jane. I will look for proper quotes later. Wait! Here's what I want on my tombstone: "Dead she is not, but departed, for the artist never dies" -Longfellow See? I can be all cultured-like too. Love....Jill
Posted by captain ken (Member # 742) on :
Not a quote but a little song that cheers me up sometimes:
Don’t you mind, People grinnin’ in your face. Don’t mind, People grinnin’ in your face. Your just bear this in mind, A true friend is hard to find. Don’t you mind, People grinnin’ in your face.
You know your mother, Would talk about you. Your own sisters and your brothers, too. They don’t care how you’re tryin’ to live, They’ll talk about you still.
Oh, but bear this in mind, A true friend is hard to find. Don’t you mind, People grinnin’ in your face.
You know they’ll jump, You up and down. They’ll drag you all 'round and 'round. Just as soon as your back is turned, They’ll be tryin’ to crush you down.
Yes, but bear this in mind, A true friend is hard to find. Don’t you mind, People grinnin’ in your face.
-Warren Haynes
[ September 19, 2006, 08:33 PM: Message edited by: captain ken ]
Posted by Bill Wood (Member # 6543) on :
PEOPLE WHO ARE LATE ARE HAPPIER THAN THOSE WHO ARE WAITING ON THEM.
ONE MORE GOOD DEAL LIKE THIS AND I'LL BE BROKE.
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
"You just can't plan spontaneity"
me
Posted by Patrick Whatley (Member # 2008) on :
Douglas Adams is my hero
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
Posted by Jason Davie (Member # 2172) on :
Right on. Things are gonna happen for me! I'm Joe Dirt!
Posted by Ray Rheaume (Member # 3794) on :
“Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things” George Carlin
Posted by Frank Sanborn (Member # 6772) on :
"If you're going to laugh about it someday, you might as well start now."
"When you're in it up to your nose, keep your mouth shut."
Posted by Ian Stewart-Koster (Member # 3500) on :
"If they were right, I'd agree, but it's them they know not me..." (Cat Stevens)
Posted by Kimmy Fitzgerald (Member # 5109) on :
There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
David Letterman (1947 - )
Posted by Marty Happy (Member # 302) on :
Life is full of obstacle illusions!
Posted by Steve Purcell (Member # 1140) on :
"Don't try to teach a pig to sing. You'll waste your time, and annoy the pig."
Posted by Dusty Campbell (Member # 4601) on :
Right on Ray. I enjoy George Carlin..
It's never just a game when you're winning.
The very existence of flamethrowers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, "You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done."
When someone asks you, A penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted?
- George Carlin
If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants. - Isaac Newton
-and when I realize that imposing my will on what I'm doing isn't working, but letting go does work I think of this:
I have been no more than a medium, as it were. - Henri Matisse
Posted by Wayne Osborne (Member # 4569) on :
If you want the rainbow- you gotta put up with the rain.
Everyone has a photographic memory-Some just dont have film.
One good turn -gets all the duvet.
Posted by bill riedel (Member # 607) on :
How about...., Things my look bad now, but they are bound to get worse. The light you see at the end of the tunnel just may be a train coming at you. You can never tell how you stand from where you are sitting. When someone looks down on you, that is when you stop looking up to them. Never miss the opportunity to let someone know how much you admire what they do, and watch them smile.
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
quote:Originally posted by Jill Marie Welsh: One of my faves is by Russ McMullin:
"That is like a Mr. Potato Head with all the pieces in the wrong place."
(about a layout) I have others too, but that is what popped into my head. I even have it as my signature, but I never use that feature anymore. Love....Jill
Yep... That one is a classic!!
[ September 20, 2006, 11:29 AM: Message edited by: Wayne Webb ]
Posted by Stu Friesen (Member # 6358) on :
"It is better to remain silent and people think You're a fool than to open your mouth and prove it." "I started out with nothing and I still have most of it." "When you're up to your armpits in aligators it's hard to remember that your job was to drain the swamp." ...or something like that.
Posted by jimmy chatham (Member # 525) on :
we specialize in the imposible. it just takes longer. my dad
Posted by Larry White (Member # 3999) on :
"The only job you're gettin' around here is pushin' up daisies from a pine box! -Mr. Dickinson
Posted by Frank Magoo (Member # 3950) on :
"You can't fix stupid...
Posted by Jane Diaz (Member # 595) on :
Today's Quotes Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. -Carol Burnett
The important thing is to learn a lesson every time you lose. -John McEnroe
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer; it sings because it has a song. -Maya Angelou
Posted by William DeBekker (Member # 3848) on :
Ahh Magoo took mine.
"Sarcasm is Free"
Posted by Brian Oliver (Member # 2019) on :
This is the one I've had rattling around in my head for the past week or two: "The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing." Sounds like something Yogi Berra might have said, but it's good advice, don'cha know!
Posted by Rose Davidson (Member # 6168) on :
Here's one that reminds me of this wonderful Letterville community that I've found:
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." ~ George Bernard Shaw
Posted by Nancy B. Bennett (Member # 1451) on :
When I got to work on Tuesday morning, one of our employees had posted "Work like a champion today" at the door and several other places. It made me pause and think about the way I was working every time I saw it.
Posted by Rich Stebbing (Member # 368) on :
"what goes arounds-comes around"
I am a believer in Karma. And this one seen on a bumper sticker:
"what if the Hokey-Pokey is what it's all about"
and of course.......IOAFS
Posted by Russ McMullin (Member # 5617) on :
quote:Originally posted by Marty Happy: Life is full of obstacle illusions!
That one just got printed and hung on the wall!
Never in a million years did I think anyone would remember my mister potato head line. LOL Thanks Jill
Here is one of my favorites from a movie:
"There is a kind of freedom in being completely screwed. Because you know things can't get any worse." Matthew Broderick in The Freshman
Posted by Dana Blair (Member # 951) on :
If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun! Kathryn Hepburn
Posted by Mark Yearwood (Member # 2723) on :
"You ever notice how everyone else's stuff is junk, but your junk is stuff?"
-also from George Carlin
Posted by Jon Aston (Member # 1725) on :
"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing" ~ W. Edwards Deming
Posted by Alicia B. Jennings (Member # 1272) on :
"Badges! We don need any sticking badges. Vamanos Hombres!."
Posted by Rick Beisiegel (Member # 3723) on :
quote:Originally posted by Frank Magoo: "You can't fix stupid...
Similar to: "There's no vaccine for stupid"
"Never criticize a man till you walk a mile in his shoes....by then, you're a mile away, and he has no shoes" -Johnny Carson to the class of 1979
[ September 23, 2006, 10:17 PM: Message edited by: Rick Beisiegel ]
Posted by Graham Parsons (Member # 1129) on :
"He was so low, he could slide under a snake's belly whilst wearing a top hat"
Posted by Frank Magoo (Member # 3950) on :
"It's just more ink." Frank Wells
sign seen in Marin county recently: "Don't be the bummer."
Yearwood: I like his(Carlin's)take on "Odds n ' Ends"...if you have 7 odds n' ends, how many are odds and how many are ends? Posted by William Holohan (Member # 2514) on :
During my youth i made an attempt at sales. My boss at the time had a "tie bar" (some here will remember what they were) with the raised gold letters: YCDBSOYA on the bar. I asked him many times what they meant. A harumph, but no answer. Finally, after I had been there for about two weeks he told me. "You Can't Do Business Sitting On Your Ass...."
True then... True now...
Posted by Bill Dirkes (Member # 1000) on :
This one helps keep my priorities straight: We are not human beings on a spiritual journey, but rather spiritual beings on a human journey. Stephen Covey This is the one I yell in frustration: In the grand cosmic scheme of things, this ain't nuthin! Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt
Posted by Craig Sjoquist (Member # 4684) on :
Someone will always ask ..how ya doing, ..my response is always .... like a dog chasing rabbit or squirral .... gets a smile most times ..... THANK YOU & ENJOY LIFE
Posted by Nancie W. Phillips (Member # 3484) on :
How about "I O A F S" ...everyone who was at Lodi remembers Mark Oatis' explaination of those 5 little letters,huh?
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
"Just DO IT!"--Mom
Posted by Ricky Jackson (Member # 5082) on :
I came up with a few of my own that I'll share:
You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him fish.
It's not over til the flatulent lady sings.
Different strokes for different people. (think about that one)
And one that is a goodie but I didn't write it:
Don't squat with yer spurs on.
Posted by Stu Friesen (Member # 6358) on :
Never take sleeping pills and laxitives at the same time.
Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
He's so tight ... it'd take a tractor to pull a needle out of his #ss.
Better to be silent and thought a fool ... than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
[ September 26, 2006, 05:59 AM: Message edited by: Bill Diaz ]
Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (O.S.H.A.) has determined that the maximum load to ride my #ss in any given day is 6 -- unless I install guard rails and hand straps. Since you have arrived 8th today, go to the end of the line and wait your turn.
Posted by Paul Bierce (Member # 5412) on :
A few pearls of wisdom from my distant Uncle Ambrose Bierce
"SAINT, A dead sinner, revised and edited"
"SELFISH, Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others"
"VOTE, The instrument and symbol of a freeman’s power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country"
"LOVE, A temporary state of insanity curable by marriage…"
Posted by Bill Diaz (Member # 2549) on :
From one of Clint Eastwood's movies, I forgot which one ...
"Dyin' ain't no livin' ... boy."
Posted by Raymond Chapman (Member # 361) on :
1. Don't sweat the small stuff. 2. Remember...it's all small stuff.
And:
The grass may be greener on the other side, but the water bill's a lot higher.
"Don't do your deep frying in the nude"...or something like that (from a song by Nancy and Noella this summer at the Zoo.)
"What difference will it make a hundred years from now." (One of my Dad's favorites)
"If it was easy, anybody could do it" (Another one from my Dad)
[ September 26, 2006, 12:10 PM: Message edited by: Raymond Chapman ]
Posted by Wayne Webb (Member # 1124) on :
"Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor." Benjamin Franklin
"Bought wit makes the best wit" My Granny
"God put us here for each other" My Dad
[ September 26, 2006, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: Wayne Webb ]
Posted by Craig Shaw (Member # 1036) on :
James McNiel Whistler, an artist from Lowell Mass. wrote: When confronted with a patron about the cost of a portrait: "A few hundred pounds seem great for a few hours of work sir" Whistler replies, "Madame, you are not paying for a few hours of work, you are paying for a lifetime of knowledge."
Posted by Bill Biggs (Member # 18) on :
"you dont always get what you pay for, but somehow you always pay for what you get." That was my Dad's favorite quote, I don't know who originated it. Bill
Posted by John Lennig (Member # 2455) on :
"You see a lot of funny sights when you haven't got your gun"
My Dad , Many years ago, said that this way a saying that His Dad used to throw out.
Now, I've seen some similar ones, so don't think it was "original" with my Granddad, but, what's new under the Sun, Eh?
Hey, most are worthy of a Panel, at the very least!
Big Top Johnny
Posted by Jason Davie (Member # 2172) on :
Serenity NOW !!
Posted by Dusty Campbell (Member # 4601) on :
Do I hear a panel swap's gears starting to grind John?
Edited to add: Jason, the best part of "Serenity Now!" is when Lloyd says "Serenity now, insanity later."
Double edited to add: Posting on another topic, I thought of another one I like:
Muhammad Ali: "I should be on a postage stamp, that's the only way I'll ever get licked."
[ September 26, 2006, 11:19 PM: Message edited by: Dusty Campbell ]
Posted by Philip Swanson (Member # 6097) on :
Alchohol: The solution to, and cause of, All of lifes problems. Homer Simpson. There's more than one way to skin a cat, but the cat doesn't like any of them!
Posted by David Harding (Member # 108) on :
Although there's more than one way to skin a cat, there's only one way per cat.
Posted by David Fisher (Member # 107) on :
Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure. (Unknown)
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