Quotes. Your favourite?

[ER Eddie]

"In order to be a man, one must be a non-conformist." - Emerson

"The essence of neurosis is taking things too seriously." - Albert Ellis

"Before you judge someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you judge them, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes." - J. Handey

 

[HFWR]

And what a fine rendition that is (not)! What a waste of Roy Clark's talents. Anyhooo... that post dated the blues versions. So I guess you can still say it is from a C&W song (if that qualifies as a song), but the original is still blues (like almost everything!). -ERD50

"Rock" music is a combo of blues/gospel/jazz/folk/bluegrass, enhanced by various chemical substances...

 

[Nodak]

"There is no need to sally forth for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Let us resolve then that on this very ground with small flags flying and tinny blasts on tiny trumpets we may meet the enemy. And, not only may he be ours, he may be us." Walt Kelly (Pogo)

 

[Asher Aion]

Heard on an interview a few years ago, I believe it was pronounced as 'Echara de menos' which the interviewee translated as 'we will be the less for their passing'

 

[ronin]

Physical beauty is evolution's way of assuring us that the other person doesn't have too many intestinal parasites. – Ben Bernanke

 

[Avalon]

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ”

George Washington Carver

 

[DougViages]

Back to Lord Acton "There is no such thing as a ruling class, all classes are unfit to rule."

 

[trouthog]

Quote by Albert

"Not everything that counts can be counted,
and not everything that can be counted counts"

 

[Chuckanut]

"My goal is to work myself into a position where I have no effect on anything." - Wally

 

[Bestwifeever]

Wear sunscreen. (misattributed to Kurt Vonnegut, actually said by Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich at a college graduation)

 

[steelyman]

Over-protective mother talking to her young son:

"If you cross the street, you'll die.

If you go outside, you'll die.

If you play sports, you're very likely to die."

I heard this on the radio while driving this afternoon and laughed all the way home.

 

[Nemo2]

"After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations."

H. L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

 

[mickeyd]

I've got hundreds of great quotes, but this is my currect favorite~

“The reward of energy, enterprise and thrift is TAXES.” Wm. Feather