Quote of the Day - 2

[SledgeDG]

What you call dog with no legs?
Don't matter what you call him, he ain't gonna come.

 

[A Guy]

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Guy

 

[BugMeister]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]From 'April', The Shepherd's Calendar (1827): [/FONT]​

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]I.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]NOW infant April joins the Spring,
And views the watery sky,
As youngling linnet tries its wing,
And fears at first to fly;
With timid step she ventures on,
And hardly dares to smile,
Till blossoms open one by one,
And sunny hours beguile.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]II.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]But finer days are coming yet,
With scenes more sweet to charm,
And suns arrive that rise and set
Bright strangers to a storm:
Then, as the birds with louder song
Each morning’s glory cheer,
With bolder step she speeds along,
And loses all her fear.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]III.[/FONT]
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[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]In wanton gambols, like a child,
She tends her early toils,
And seeks the buds along the wild,
That blossoms while she smiles;
Or, laughing on, with nought to chide,
She races with the Hours,
Or sports by Nature’s lovely side,
And fills her lap with flowers...[/FONT]

John Clare..

- cool

 

[Irene]

Nice one BugMeister.


The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease

~ Josh Billings
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[johnwillyums]

"I've witnessed first hand the power of ideas, I've seen people kill in the name of them, and die defending them... but you cannot kiss an idea, cannot touch it, or hold it... ideas do not bleed, they do not feel pain, they do not love... "


Alan Moore-V for Vendetta

 

[A Guy]

Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
~Neil Armstrong

A Guy

 

[Irene]

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have travelled from the point where they started

~ Henry Ward Beecher
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[mickey megabyte]

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stone-cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it would split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before together.

Jacob A. Riis, journalist and social reformer (1849-1914)

 

[alfred01]

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

Red Skelton

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[Irene]

No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds.

Red Skelton

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I couldn't agree more..

 

[johnwillyums]

Apparently Osama Bin Laden was a fan of Arsenal Football Club and used to attend matches when living in London. Up until this weekend this was one of their chants:

"Osama, woah-woah, Osama, woah-waoh, he's hiding in Kabul, he loves the Arsenul".

Read more: Osama bin Laden and his years as an Arsenal fan | People in the News | People | The First Post
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[StalkeR]

Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
Marquis De Vauvenargues

 

[A Guy]

Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
~John Galbraith

A Guy

 

[alfred01]

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.


Bill Cosby
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[rbeldua]

"In primitive society, when native tribes beat the ground with clubs and yelled, it was called witchcraft; today, in civilized society, it is called golf."

 

[Irene]

Winners never quit and quitters never win

~ Vince Lombardi
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[mnzel]

GET RICH OR DiE TryIN

 

[mickey megabyte]

Every man possesses three characters: that which he exhibits, that which he really has, and that which he believes he has.

Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, novelist and journalist (1808-1890)

 

[johnwillyums]

that's a sobering thought Mickey.

 

[mickey megabyte]

yeah, makes u fink, eh?

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