"Good friends are like stars...You don't always see them, but you know they are always there." - Unknown [especially when they creep up on you and pounce you with a hug!]

Roar!
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(See the problem with the internet is all these great quotes are made up and passed around so I have a hard time finding the original author.)

I saw this on a website that I read again the other day. Today it is more relevant to me because I now ride. If anybody wants it, I will look it up and post it. It is about a lady in Ukraine (sp) that rode her bike in and around the area that was contaminated with radiation after the Chernobyl (sp) reactor accident in Apr '86. It is long because it has a lot of pics.

After I saw it, I put it as my signature. I know it says it about girls but I like fast g...............never mind. :rolleyes:

NB

Oh, welcome to our 300th member.

Chris -

I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but it came out awhile after she posted up that website that she was utterly and completely full of crap. She never got anywhere near where she said she did on a motorcycle once, let alone regularly, and many of the pics were of a bus tour of the area.

EDIT (but as Sunny says below, it's still a kick-ass quote)

That is an awesome quote! I love it!

Chris -

I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but it came out awhile after she posted up that website that she was utterly and completely full of crap. She never got anywhere near where she said she did on a motorcycle once, let alone regularly, and many of the pics were of a bus tour of the area.

EDIT (but as Sunny says below, it's still a kick-ass quote)

That I was not aware of, do you know where that was said?

Thanks for letting me know. A lot times the things that are seen on the web seem to be legit, and look and sound legit, but later turn out to be bogus.

NB

Never heard the term "Debbie Downer" what is the story behind that phrase?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Downer

Here are two links that provide additional information on the Chernobyl Biker's site. At one point she actually had the notation on her site that "poetic license" was taken to provide this art (referring to the website itself), but that note has been taken down.

I'd suggest taking a peek at these two links:

Link 1 (http://badweatherbikers.com/buell/messages/4062/61687.html?1087357647%22)
Link 2 (http://joi.ito.com/weblog/2004/05/27/woman-racing-th.html)

and only then making up your own mind about whether her story remains legitimate in your view. It doesn't in mine.

for the correction, I had never seen those and I have been thinking that this person was as ballsy as she let on. But, and this is mho only, that did, for awhile, make an interesting story.

Later

NB

It is still a good quote...

Normally I get bunches of emails with insperation/quotes and I take these from those, which explains why I don't know who said them. Recently I haven't gotten any so I went searching the net...

"Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.” General George Patton

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One of the places that I have got quotes from is AWAD, (A word a day), they send you and email on a daily basis with words that are not in normal usage, some you may have never heard of but are in the English language. They always have a quote from some really famous person that, a lot of times, I have never heard of.

nb

I'll have to look for that

Sunny, If I may I would like to add this Qoute of the day. When I read it I totally realized that this is the real reason we get bikes when we are younger....

The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 - 1881)

I read that one earlier yesterday too! I concidered putting that one up but decided on the one I found. THat is a good one though!

"You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough." Unknown.

:)

"Speak softly and carry a big stick." - President Roosevelt

;)

You have to be lost to find a place that's never been found.
Capt. Barbossa

Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. -Eleanor Roosevelt

:outlaw1:

"Success is getting what you want.... Happiness is wanting what you get.”
-Dale Carnegie"

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.--Ben Franklin

"This is blasphemy! This is madness! THIS.. IS.. SPARTAAAAAAA! " -- 300 dudes :)

Loved the movie, loved the 8 packs!

Yep, I saw that, kewl movie

nb

"It is an interesting question how far people would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes."
- Henry David Thoreau

Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid
form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use
as a mixer. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a
stiff one. Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new
meaning to the names of 'cocktails', 'highballs' and just a good old-fashioned
'stiff drink'. Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of: MOUNT &
DO.

There is more money being spent on breast implants and
Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there
should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and
absolutely no recollection of what to do with them

Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available in liquid
form, and will be marketed by Pepsi Cola as a power beverage suitable for use
as a mixer. It will now be possible for a man to literally pour himself a
stiff one. Obviously we can no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new
meaning to the names of 'cocktails', 'highballs' and just a good old-fashioned
'stiff drink'. Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of: MOUNT &
DO.

There is more money being spent on breast implants and
Viagra today than on Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there
should be a large elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections and
absolutely no recollection of what to do with them

:eyebrows: :drunk1: :leghump:

"How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners and instant cameras teach patience to its young?"
Paul Sweeney

"We are all faced with opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations."
- Charles Swindoll

Friend passed away 3 days ago....she was 19 :'( This quote is for her.

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." ~ Pericles

Amen Levi

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread


Foolish people are often reckless, attempting feats that the wise avoid. This saying is from “An Essay on Criticism,” by Alexander Pope.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.--Ben Franklin

I like that! :D

True Love is something that is shared with two, not shared by ones self.
~Me
(I texted it to my wifey one day.. Just Because)

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom"
-Thomas Jefferson

"Do not go through life like a leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told." -Socrates

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth. -John Locke, philosopher (1632-1704)

The world is a skirt I want to lift up. -Hanif Kureishi, author (1954- )

I believe that our banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and business that will grow up around the banks they will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it porperly belongs. - Thomas Jefferson

A wise man indeed.

"Son of a bitch must pay" - Jack Burton

"Yippie Kai Yay Mother-f#cker!" - John McLean (Die Hard 1, 2, 3, 4.0)

Coming in second just means you were the first to finish last
-Dale Earnhardt-

"Ya Mo B there" -Michael Mcdonald

lol

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of
time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. -Samuel
Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

Be nice to others because........
Time can make a difference!



One day, you may not be the 'BIG DOG'!!! Just the old dog.......

"Love cures people, both the ones who give and the ones who receive" My chocolate last night :shifty:

Only the madman is absolutely sure. -Robert Anton Wilson, novelist (1932-2007)

"Life is not about every breathe you take, it is about every moment that takes your breathe away" - Alex Hitchens (Hitch from the movie 'Hitch')

People like to imagine that because all our mechanical equipment moves so
much faster, that we are thinking faster, too. -Christopher Morley, writer
(1890-1957)

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

-Thomas Jefferson

more money more problems (Notorious B.I.G)

life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what your gonna get (Forest Gump's mother)

slaying the dragon of delay is not a sport for the short winded. (a fortune cookie) < I still don't get it, but it sounds good :)

"We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us."
Abraham Lincoln; Lyceum Address; Jan 27, 1838.

If you can sit at set of sun,
And count the deeds that you have done.
And counting find;
One self-denying act, one word,
That eased the heart of him that heard;
One glance most kind,
Which fell like sunshine where he went;
Then you may count that day well spent.

~Robert Browning

Conscience is a man's compass, and though the needle sometimes deviates, though one often perceives irregularities when directing one's course by it, one must still try to follow its direction. -Vincent van Gogh, painter (1853-1890)

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back.

Will Rogers

Do not go through life like a leaf blown from here to there believing whatever you are told.
-- Socrates

All men -- whether they go by the name of Americans or Russians or Chinese or British or Malayans or Indians or Africans -- have obligations to one another that transcend their obligations to their sovereign societies. -Norman Cousins, author, editor, journalist and professor (1915-1990)

"People living deeply have no fear of death."
~Anais Nin

Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

I once believed a single line
in a Chinese poem could change
forever how blossoms fell
"Leonard Cohen"

"Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings"

Mike... That's great! I love it!

Miks, it's funny you should put that quote up. I told one of the chicks I work with that one this morning coming out of the gym after PT and she called me weird and disgusting.. Then asked if I had just peed on myself or something :confused20: Oh well, I thought it was a good and funny quote.

LOL, I was just about to post that saying, but wanted to catch up on what everyone else posted. I guess I was just a little too late... :) So here's mine (literally mine).

"there will always be questions that need answering, and answers that need questioning" ~Travis Kingsley

"Sing. Sing with all your might. For if you do not, then maybe you never deserved to sing in the first place." ~Travis Kingsley

Maybe someone will find them cool.

Travis

As the great Winston Churchill said, "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, 'it is the quality which guarantees the others.'"

"The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on" - Robert Bloch

"Acceptance is recognizing that whatever happens, and however we respond, is precisely what we need for our highest good and learning"

- Anonymous

First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
- Doctor Who

There are two ways of being happy: We may either diminish our wants or augment our means - either will do - the result in the same; and it is for each man to decide for himself, and do that which happens to be the easiest. If you are idle or sick or poor, however hard it may be to diminish your wants, it will be harder to augment your means. If you are active and prosperous or young and in good health, it may be easier for you to augment your means than to diminish your wants. But if you are wise, you will do both at the same time, young or old, rich or poor, sick or well; and if you are very wise you will do both in such a way as to augment the general happiness of society. -Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

Old Navy toast
"May no son of the ocean be devoured by his mother"

and a oldie but a goodie that the Army and the military in general depend on:

If you expect the unexpected, doesn't that make the unexpected expected?

"Some people quote others, I prefer to be the one being quoted." ~ CB. Just made it up.

Without the strength to risk, there can be no desire to gain. With no desire, there can be no hope of success. With no hope, how can one truly enjoy all that life has to offer. -- me. :D

"A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea....Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely."

Tim Cahill

"A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea....Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely."

Tim Cahill
daym, that's deep.

Poetry, indeed, cannot be translated; and, therefore, it is the poets that preserve the languages; for we would not be at the trouble to learn a language if we could have all that is written in it just as well in a translation. But as the beauties of poetry cannot be preserved in any language except that in which it was originally written, we learn the language. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success. -Madame Anne Sophie Swetchine, mystic (1782-1857)

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

You can catch more flies (or is it bees?) with honey than you can with vinegar. - unknown

"Mas vale pajaro en mano que cien volando" = "One bird in hand is better than a hundred in the sky"
~ Latin American saying

"I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again."

Stephen Krebbet, 1793- 1855

One evening an old Cherokee told his grandson about a battle that goes on inside people.
He said, "My son, the battle is between two wolves inside us all.

"One is Evil - It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego.

"The other is Good - It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."

The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather: "Which wolf wins?"

The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."

I have that poster!
My wife is a small part Cherokee :)




There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.
George Carlin (1937 - 2008)

Curiosity killed the cat......but satisfaction brought him back for more.

At the bottom of a good deal of the bravery that appears in the world there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion. -Edwin Hubbel Chapin, minister and orator (1814-1880)

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Life is a comedy to him who observes, but a tragedy to him who feels. Musset

Men occasionally stumble over the truth but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Sir Winston Churchill

" Ohhhhh,,,, Ohhhhhh,, yes yes yes yesssssssssss, mmm mmm mmm, right there,,,, Ohhhhhh Ohhhhhhh Ohhhh.. yeahhhhhhhhh!" - quote from When Harry Met Sally (1989) Sally Albright (played by Meg Ryan) :devil:

One can only see what one observes, and one observes only things which are already in the mind.---Alphonse Bertillon---

"If you don't like your job, you don't strike! You just go in every day, and do it really half assed. That's the American way." - Homer Simpson

Post of a quote u heard somewhere and thought was cool.

even if you dont know what it means or who said it :thumbup:
Maybe someone in the forums may know what it means or who said it.

Maybe its something you say often. share!


"Nothing is true, everything is permitted."-

-friend was playing assassin's creed on his 360 and heard it. thought it was pretty cool, what it means? i have no clue.

We've got a great "quotes" thread going right here (http://www.ninjette.org/forums/showthread.php?t=13047), I'll merge this one with it...

oh dang, sorry. i even search for one, nothing came up tho =(.

apologies.

"quote" is an ignored word in the search, as every post that has somebody quoted in it has the term "quote" in it. Makes it harder to search for. :)

"Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable." - Sydney J. Harris

This is the reason why I ride.

"Sexual modesty cannot then in any simple way be identified with the
use of clothing nor shamelessness with the absence of clothing and
total or partial nakedness. There are circumstances in which nakedness
is not immodest... Nakedness as such is not to be equated with physical
shamelessness. Immodesty is present only when nakedness plays a
negative role with regard to the value of the person... The human body
is not in itself shameful, nor for the same reasons are sensual
reactions, and human sensuality in general. Shamelessness (just like
shame and modesty) is a function of the interior of a person."
---Karol Cardinal Wojtyla (later to become Pope John Paul II)

Jesus said, "Do not fret from morning to evening and from evening to morning about what you are going to wear."
His disciples said, "When will you appear to us, and when will we see you?"
Jesus said, "When you strip yourselves naked without being ashamed, and you take your clothes and put them under your feet like little children and trample them, then you will see the son of the Living One, and you will not be afraid."
Gospel of Thomas, verses 36–37

"Those with power and prejudice fear those with courage and determination"--Bill Pacer

Yes, I found a treasure trove of quotes that I believe are notable.

"The main hang-up in the world today is
hypocrisy and insecurity. If people can`t face up to the fact of other people
being naked or smoking pot, or whatever they want to do, then we`re never going
to get anywhere. People have got to become aware that it`s none of their
business and that being nude is not obscene. Being ourselves is what`s
important. If everyone practiced being themselves instead of pretending to be
what they aren`t, there would be peace." John Lennon

nb i think you may have the urge to go streaking soon

nb i think you may have the urge to go streaking soon

Not until it warms up around here, nude beach is chilly and windy.

nb

Can't be worse that the polar bear dip we have on new year's day where we cut a hole in the ice and go for a dip.

Can't be worse that the polar bear dip we have on new year's day where we cut a hole in the ice and go for a dip.

does everybody do that in the nude?

nb

No as it is a public event with children but they do only have little swimming trunks and bathing suits. brrrrrrrrrr

hmmm

Here is a link on a canadian tradition

http://www.halifaxnewsnet.ca/index.cfm?main=broadcast&bcid=10142

Now i cant recall ever hearing this from a classmate, or co-worker, but ive Said this alotta times in my life onto others.... ahem ....

"You Cant plan your Future...you can Only Hope for it!"

From your lips to God's ears. - Unkown author

When the going gets weird; the weird turn pro. H.S.T.

I don't know what it means; but I'm working on it.

Everything is amazing right now and nobody's happy. Louis CK
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Here is a link on a canadian tradition

http://www.halifaxnewsnet.ca/index.cfm?main=broadcast&bcid=10142

OMG, I just now watched that.........I would have a frakin heart attack. Although in my younger days, I went straight from a indoor hot tub to an outdoor pool in the mountains of NC, in October, a few times. WHOOPEE

nb

also seen in the new latt and atts

"All the desirable things in life are either illegal, expensive, fattening or married to someone else"

Life's Journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body but rather to slide in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy S**t, what a ride!" -Unknown :)

"Who wants a Bodymassage? Bodymassage machine... GO! BODY MASSAGE!!!" -G.I.JOE

Crashin sux

Seperation makes the heart grow fonder - author unknown

Familiarity breeds contempt - author unknown

Separation makes the heart wonder- same unknown author 6 months later.

Separation makes the heart wonder- same unknown author 6 months later.

Oh so true CC.

"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but as has was once an are.

Milton Berle

Seen in Lats and Atts

Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

"If you were Me... and i were you, would we Screw?"
-Me, last week up north at a waitress in Caseville,Mi.

:smile-drink4:

:rotflmao:

Reminds me of a Jimmy Buffett song, "why don't we get drunk and screw"

nb

hehe, yea.. " I had a lil Captain in me" that night! my cousin said i was funny as hell, and the waitress "Amy" was a good sport about it. I dont remb much other then askin her the question! >_< :o

A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., poet, novelist, essayist, and physician (1809-1894)

Overheard at a nude beach

"who would have thought that Keith Richards would outlive Michael Jackson"

An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth. -Bonnie Friedman, author (b. 1958)

I believe I found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us. -Konrad Lorenz, ethologist, Nobel laureate (1903-1989)

a joint a day keeps the doctor away

i ate all my apples

It is good to rub and polish your mind against that of others. -Michel de Montaigne, essayist (1533-1592)

Silence is the severest criticism. -Charles Buxton, brewer, philanthropist, writer and politician (1823-1871)

I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

:bump:

"Did God have a mother?" Children, when told that God made the heavens and the earth, innocently ask whether God had a mother. This deceptively simple question has stumped the elders of the church and embarrassed the finest theologians, precipitating some of the thorniest theological debates over the centuries. All the great religions have elaborate mythologies surrounding the divine act of Creation, but none of them adequately confronts the logical paradoxes inherent in the question that even children ask. -Michio Kaku, physicist (b. 1947)

Now this was funny to me. Today at work, Rick (our mechanic) said this at the end of the day, during our talk about a co-workers Drinking talents!

"Mark will out drink you and Rub your Dick in the Dirt!"

:rofl:

Some fortune cookies I have collected over the years(some are good, most are silly):
"A healthy way of living is be good to your health."
"Action is the proper fruit of knowledge."
"You are not illiterate."
"You are almost there."
"A big fortune will descend upon you this year."
"Don't panic."
"Tastes like chicken."
"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you."
"Your fortune is as sweet as you."
"A golden egg of opportunity falls into your lap this month."
"Be careful! Straight trees often have crooked roots."
"It's not what your fortune cookie can do for you, but what you can do for your fortune cookie."
"Your future looks bright."
"A smooth long journey! Great expectations!"
"Never argue with a fool."
"It could be better, but its good enough."
"Look around; happiness is trying to catch you."
"Here we go. 'Moo Shu Cereal' for breakfast with duck sauce."

Only the educated are free. -Epictetus, philosopher (c. 60-120)

Just found this on another forum that look into on occasion

“I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.”

-Frank Sinatra

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I don't know the answer. -Douglas Adams, satirist (1952-2001)

Coffee is gods way of saying go ahead, get absolutly trashed on weeknights, I got your back

found on lastnightstexts

"Be the change you want to see in the world"
Mohandas Ghandi

"Be Kind"

"Be"

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace. -Oscar Wilde, writer (1854-1900)

This town needs an enema!

-Jack Nicholson (Joker) 1989

The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also. -Mark Twain, author and humorist (1835-1910)

Heh, today i worked a halfday. So when the guys and i, were standing around bullshitin'.. i tell em: "Alright, im gonna make like a Baby and Head-Out!" :D

The tragedy of modern war is not so much that young men die but that they die fighting each other, instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. -Edward Abbey, naturalist and author (1927-1989)

Here are a few of my favorites:

"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment"
-Unknown

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."
-Augusten Burroughs

"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."
-David T. Wolf

"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."
-Douglas Adams

"Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke."
-Lynda Barry

Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue. -Francois, duc de La Rochefoucauld, moralist (1613-1680)

My personal favorite:

"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."

Abraham Lincoln

Man can be the most affectionate and altruistic of creatures, yet he's potentially more vicious than any other. He is the only one who can be persuaded to hate millions of his own kind whom he has never seen and to kill as many as he can lay his hands on in the name of his tribe or his God. -Benjamin Spock, pediatrician and author (1903-1998)

Commandment Number One for any truly civilized society is this: Let people be different. -David Grayson [pen name of Ray Stannard Baker], journalist, author (1870-1946)

He felt justified to kill birds for a museum where they would be preserved forever, as some feel justified to eat fish, chicken, or other meat that is digested in hours. Which is more justified? And even if necessary, how do you justify? Those who are familiar with ancient folklore, or are up above the rest of us a moral notch or two, kill "respectfully" by offering prayers or apologies, in the hope that animals will "offer themselves" up to be voluntarily killed. However, it is a sad fact that no animal cares if those who might eat them invent reasons to justify their acts (to make themselves feel good). -Bernd Heinrich, biology professor and author (b. 1940)

Either live your dreams or kill yourself................never compromise.


kinda straight to the point, saw it on someones signature on another forum.

If your going to ride my ass. You could at least pull my hair.
-random bumpersticker

"Unless you are totally nude, do not lean on this bike"

Sticker seen on a bike...................... somewhere......................... sometime ago.

Never worry about the size of your Cristmass tree. In the eyes of children, they are all thirty feet tall. - Larry Wilde

He who is a good ruler must have first been ruled. - Aristotle

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions. - Alfred Adler

If you don't know where you are going you might wind up some place else. - Yogi Berra

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost, when health is lost, something is lost, when character is lost, all is lost. - Billy Graham

Cheers to the New Year and another chance to get it right. - Oprah Winfrey

When love is not madness, it is not love. -Pedro Calderon de la Barca, poet and dramatist (1600-1681)

Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. - Lance Armstrong

"some people are like slinkies, they are good for nothing......but they sure bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs!!!!! Are you a slinky"

Unknown

This is on my bosses wall, is she trying to tell me something?

"some people are like slinkies, they are good for nothing......but they sure bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs!!!!! Are you a slinky"

Unknown

This is on my bosses wall, is she trying to tell me something?

It sounds like your boss does not think very highly of her employee's.

If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten. - Tony Robbins

One important key to succes is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation. - Arthur Ashe

The future will be better tomorrow - George W. Bush

Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes - Brendon Hills

Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them.
-David and Goliath

There is danger in changing too much in search of perfection. - Agnetha Faltskog

In an earlier stage of our development most human groups held to a tribal ethic. Members of the tribe were protected, but people of other tribes could be robbed or killed as one pleased. Gradually the circle of protection expanded, but as recently as 150 years ago we did not include blacks. So African human beings could be captured, shipped to America, and sold. In Australia white settlers regarded Aborigines as a pest and hunted them down, much as kangaroos are hunted down today. Just as we have progressed beyond the blatantly racist ethic of the era of slavery and colonialism, so we must now progress beyond the speciesist ethic of the era of factory farming, of the use of animals as mere research tools, of whaling, seal hunting, kangaroo slaughter, and the destruction of wilderness. We must take the final step in expanding the circle of ethics. -Peter Singer, philosopher, professor of bioethics (b. 1946)

I totally 100% agree with that quote. :thumbup:

Nearly all men can stand adversitybut if you want to test a man's charachter give him power - Abraham Lincoln.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic. It takes sweat, determination and hard work. - Colin Powell

Keep the faith, don't lose yourperserverance and always trust your gut instinct. - Paula Abdul

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
--------Eleanor Roosevelt

A variety-

Better to have loved and lost than spend the rest of your life with a psycho - author unknown

Man who farts in church sits in his own pew - Confuscious

Insanity is doing the same thing twice and expecting a different result - Albert Einstein

The small act of paying attention can take you a long way. - Keanu Reeves

Beauty is only skin deep. Ugly is to the bone. Nipsey Russell (comedian)

One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist. - Steve Allen

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality that guarantees the others. - Aristotle

'If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.'
Mark Twain



Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress....
But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain



I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill



A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw



A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-G. Gordon Liddy



Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)


Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University



Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian



Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)



Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan (1986)



I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
-Will Rogers



If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
-P.J. O'Rourke




In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)



Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won' t take an interest in you!
-Pericles (430 B.C.)





No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-Mark Twain (1866)


Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.< B>
-Unknown



The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan



The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill



The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain



The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)



There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.
-Mark Twain



What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)




A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

If your in your late teens or early 20's and not a liberal you have no heart. If your married and have children and not a conservative you have no brains.

I dont know who said it, but Ive heard it.


help me out on this one if you know.

mrlmd those are some great qoutes that make you realy think.

"You'll never impress anybody more than you'll impress yourself." -Me
Wrote that after I quit smoking after 15 years or something like that.
It seems to have several meanings to me.

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. - Tom Brokaw

No matter how busy you are you must take time to make the other person feel important. - Mary Kay Ash

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes. - Tony Blair

We are what we do repeatedly - Aristotle

Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs,
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes,
Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers' tears.
What is it else? A madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
- William Shakespeare


*Wishing Everyone some warm cuddles to ride out the rest of the winter*

For money you can have everything it is said. No, that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money. -Arne Garborg, writer (1851-1924)

Great quote nb. Very deep.

Why thank you, I got that from AWAD, a word a day, it pays to enrich your word power,

nb

Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional.

You've reached success in your field when you don't know whether what you are doing is work or play. - Warren Beatty

I think I know what he means, too !!

Willie Nelson commenting on his 75th. Birthday

Whether or not you are a country music fan, these are truly the words of a deep thinker, and a highly intelligent person.

So simple, yet so profound!

Read the words of wisdom from that famous philosopher Willie Nelson, iconic country and western singer, on his 75th birthday below his esteemed portrait.

Only a man with such wisdom and maturity could be so concise and succinct in phrasing his feelings at this turning point in his life.




"I have outlived my pecker."

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind. Dr. Seuss.

Faith is to believe what you don't see; the rward of this faith is to see what you believe. - St. Augustine.

Life's not about what you get out of it. It's what you put into it that counts.

Everyday may not be good, but there's something good in everyday.


I love quotes!

Great quote. Who is the author?

Some of my personal favorites:

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often." - Mark Twain

"I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: "O Lord make my enemies ridiculous." And God granted it."- Voltaire

"Light travels faster than sound. That's why most people seem bright until you hear them speak"- unkown

:D

Wish I knew! (...in regards to Rick's question. Sorry, forgot to quote.)

“I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.” - Winston Churchill.

Great quotes, everyone, keep them coming.

Most motorcycle problems are caused by the nut that connects the handlebars to the saddle. ~Author Unknown

Four wheels move the body. Two wheels move the soul. ~Author Unknown

Bikes don't leak oil, they mark their territory. ~Author Unknown

Only a biker knows why a dog sticks his head out of a car window. ~Author Unknown

Catching a yellow-jacket in your jacket at seventy miles per hour can double your vocabulary. ~Author Unknown

Whatever it is, it's better in the wind. ~Author Unknown

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success,luxury have always seemed to me contemptible. - Albert Einstein

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. -Francis Baconn, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626)

Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded! ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. - Albert Einstein

Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons - Douglas MacArthur


This one is my favorite:
I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

Although it may be a touchy subject I'll post this quote anyway.

I want to know Gods thoughts... all the rest are just details. - Albert Einstein

‎"To dream of the person you want to be is to waste the person you are" - Unknown

He who falls in love with himself, will have no rivals. - Ben Franklin

This quote exemplifies how some people react to some threads. With that in mind, post whatever you like know matter what anybody thinks but above pleaase be curtious and respectfull when you do.

"You can please some of the people some of the time but you can't please all of the people all of the time" - Author unknown

"he who perseveres shall emerge victorious" - me, and my next tatoo in sanskrit.

The men who try to do something and fail are infinitely better than those who try to do nothing and succeed - Lloyed Jous

The difference between light and hard is that you can sleep with a light on. ~Author Unknown
:leghump:

Another funny one:
A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is smoking a cigarette with a satisfied smile on its face and the egg is frowning and looking put out. The egg mutters to no one in particular, "I guess we answered that question." ~Author Unknown

After spending the last 5 days splitting my time between my dying dad-in-law and grandfather, I'm reading some quotes to inspire and uplift me. Here is one more for tonight that I liked. :-)

I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. ~Stephen Roberts

Ally, my thoughts and prayers go out to you and your family in this difficult time.

Thank you so much Rick. :-)

No prob. Ally.


No flower of art ever fully blossomed save it was nourished by tears of agony - Isadora Duncan

"I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted." George Best

Beware the pull on your heartstrings... it's often the purestrings that are actualy being reached for. - Barbara Mikkulson

"He who farts last, dies first!"

- me :D

Continuous effort... not strength... is the key to unlocking our potential. - Black Elk

Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. - Aristotle

Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle

In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong. -John Kenneth Galbraith, economist (1908-2006)

"Dolor ad tempus manet, superbia autem ad aeternitatem"

"Pain is temporary, Pride is forever"

I like it :)

A friend is a second self. - Aristotle

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. - Chines Proverb

I went to brush something off my cheek, it was the floor.

Did you fall down?

A book holds a house of gold. - Chinese Proverb

A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion. - Author Unknown

" There is no I in team" Lance Armstrong

Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men
pROVERBS 22:29

In case you are worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. - Roger Allen

" There is no I in team" Lance Armstrong

But there is a ME :D jkjk

Any ideas, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought. - Napoleon Hill

“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as its accomplice. Instead of vowing to honor and obey, maybe we should swear to aid and abet. That would mean that security is out of the question. The words "make" and "stay" become inappropriate. My love for you has no strings attached. I love you for free.”

Tom Robbins (author)

"it aint easy being sleazy" - Blackwidow

"it aint easy being sleazy" - Blackwidow

LOL! Funny you say that because people call me Sleezy Ceezy! I heart you Blackwidow!

In today's permissive society, it takes a great deal of creativity to be a pervert...Anonymous

Great quotes. Keep 'em coming.

Life is like a ten speed bike; most of us have gears we never use. - Charles M. Schulz

It's nice to be important, but it's important to be nice. - Scooter

my favorite quote from my all time favorite movie:

look but don't touch, touch but don't taste, taste, don't swallow- john milton (Al Pacino)

Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement, his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all time. Look but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, don't swallow. Ahaha. And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, ****in' ass off! He's a tight-ass! He's a SADIST! He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? NEVER!

-Devils Advocate