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Est. Jan. 1998


Welcome to the "Quotes Page". Some of these quotes have been resurrected from another page done by an internet friend, some by me, some submitted by friends and surfers, many simply found or heard here and there within the vast realm of Washington. I was going to index the quotes by subject matter (and I still may) but for now this will have to do. Sorta anxious to get them online!

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As to making do....hmm, my reply is that I cannot submit to making do. I grow weary of coping with life. It's time that life did a little coping with me. Complacency is the first step a man takes towards servitude, or a society takes towards submission to tyranny. Change starts with a single person, a single act. I believe that kindness, honesty, decency, love - these things can be contagious. And I believe that most individual people would submit to that as well. It's only in crowds or societies that we fear to be individuals and in doing so, lose that spark of benevolent uniqueness that sets us apart from simpler animals.
Me...no excuses.

Every victory leaves a pile of disappointments, and sometimes tragedy, in its wake.
Me, during one of countless "lectures" to one of my kids :-)

There's no such thing as "total victory", but when you know that you can handle the losses then you can allow yourself to relish in the victories without wondering if the cost was worth it. It's rarely worth it if people get hurt along the way, because you will never escape the guilt of that.
Same lecture

Most of the limitations we find in life are those we put upon ourselves.
OK, so I was on a roll that night...

THE TRAGEDY OF LIFE IS NOT IN THE TRAGEDY OF DEATH BUT WHAT DIES INSIDE OF US AS WE LIVE
Unknown

Kids: "The only hope you have is that they survive the upbringing you give them until they can take care of themselves".
Thomas Williams (twillie)

"Intelligence isn't what you know. It's knowing what you don't know."
Unknown

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the bastards aren't out to get you."
Unknown

"You're only as old as the woman you feel."
W C Fields

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education"
Mark Twain

"Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything."
Mark Twain

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
Mark Twain

"The only true sign of maturity is walking past a Wet Paint sign without touching to find out."
Dale Mountain

The Science graduate asks,"Why does it work?"
The Engineering graduate asks,"How does it work?"
The Accounting graduate asks,"How much will it cost?"
The Liberal Arts graduate asks,"Do you want fries with that?"
Unknown

"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."
Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See

"The Internet is a good tool to use to get on the net."
US Seantor, Bob Dole.

"All of the emotions make us do silly things. Love just makes us do the silliest."
La Rouchfaucauld

"Today's religion is tomorrow's mythology."
Curtis Oakes

"It's sad that, in our blindness, we gather thorns for flowers."
My Dying Bride, from Turn Loose the Swans

"I hear, I forget,
I see, I remember,
I experience, I understand."
Chinese proverb

"I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants."
A. Whitney Brown

"Adults are obsolete children."
Dr Seuss

"The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that is hasn't tried to contact us."
From Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Waterson, on the day the last ever C & H cartoon was published

"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
Isaac Asimov

"Why is it so easy to feel your age, but so difficult to act it?"
Ian Purdy, aka The Mad Mosher

"Truth: the most deadly weapon ever discovered by humanity. Capable of destroying entire perceptual sets, cultures, and realities. Outlawed by all governments everywhere. Possession is normally punishable by death."
Unknown

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great-quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
D. H. Lawrence

True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about but few have seen.
François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld

'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame: it wounds one, another it kills: like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment: it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning; for there is no force able to resist it.
Miguel de Cervantes

Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
Christopher Marlowe

When all is said and done, friendship is the only trustworthy fabric of the affections. So-called love is a delirious inhuman state of mind: when hot it substitutes indulgence for fair play; when cold it is cruel, but friendship is warmth in cold, firm ground in a bog.
Miles Franklin

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.
Joseph Addison

So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.
Robert Louis Stevenson

To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."
Aristotle

A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmother. A home without a grandmother is like an egg without salt and Helpists know it. They have jumped into the void left by the disappearance of morbid old ladies from the bosom of the American family.
Florence King

As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live.
Pope John Paul II

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
Margaret Mead

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations—one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it—you will regret both.
Søren Kierkegaard

Whenever is found what is called a paternal government, there is found state education. It has been discovered that the best way to insure implicit obedience is to commence tyranny in the nursery.
Benjamin Disraeli

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbor as ourselves; modern society acknowledges no neighbor.
Benjamin Disraeli

As to making do....hmm, my reply is that I cannot submit to making do. I grow weary of coping with life. It's time that life did a little coping with me. Complacency is the first step a man takes towards servitude, or a society takes towards submission to tyranny. Change starts with a single person, a single act. I believe that kindness, honesty, decency, love - these things can be contagious. And I believe that most individual people would submit to that as well. It's only in crowds or societies that we fear to be individuals and in doing so, lose that spark of benevolent uniqueness that sets us apart from simpler animals.
Me, after some rather large life-changing events.

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company…a church… a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the string we have, and that is our attitude… I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it.
By Charles Swindle.

The answers aren't always pretty, but self knowledge leads to self acceptance, improvement, and peace of mind. Without that there can be no true love, true friendship. At least not in it's purest sense.
Me, on a particularly prophetic night

"What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it."
Georg Wilhelm Hegel

Quotes on one of my favorite subjects, BEER!

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
-- Frank Zappa

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
-- Ernest Hemmingway

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
-- Winston Churchill

He was a wise man who invented beer.
-- Plato

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
-- W.C. Fields

If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
-- David Daye

Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
-- Henny Youngman

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
-- Benjamin Franklin

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
-- Deep Thought, Jack Handy

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
-- Dave Barry

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
-- Humphrey Bogart

People who drink "light" beer don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee alot.
-- Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
-- Kaiser Wilhelm

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
-- Dave Barry

I drink to make other people interesting.
-- George Jean Nathan

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with fools.
-- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway

They who drink beer will think beer.
-- Washington Irving

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
-- Dean Martin

Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.
-- David Moulton

Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.
-- Catherine Zandonella

I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.
-- Homer Simpson

Guinness... must be Irish for genius.
-- Anonymous

More humorous quotes, these gathered from Restrooms...



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