"Always tell the truth, not only because it is the decent thing to do, but because it gives you such an advantage over the man who is trying to remember his lies!"

M, what a great quote. So right on! You just have no idea.

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."

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Altenweg agrees: Nice one M & M. :) Ohh, M & M, you melt in my mouth, not in my hand. Bad Alty, bad. Back in the corner I go. ::hangs head::

LMAO... you crack me up Alty :)

(wrong thread BTW) ;)

I'm always on the wrong thread lately, there are too many, I can't keep them all straight. Is that a sign of old age? Huh? Speak up! I can't hear you? Is it? Hmmm? Hmmmm? HMMMMMM? ;)

What's the difference between sex and love? Love is much more expensive.

"If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy."


MERRY CHRISTMAS to all my AMHD friends :)

Merry Christmas M dear, have a wonderful holiday. :)

Anyone that comes to this website is looking for something. I read the questions and I might or might not respond. But I feel in my heart that all of us are searching for something fix a problem or just make life better. And as in Shakespeare's St. Crispin's Day Speech of Henry V, All of us are band of Brothers (and Sisters). We want to make our lives better and/or make our loved ones better. Whatever, it is the search not the result that really counts, Keep on searching people.

Perry Fielder

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ~Dr. King

My favorite quote ever:
"Dont ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can't do something themselves, so they tell you that you can't do it. You want something? Go get it. Period." ~Pursuit of Happyness

"Blue!! You're my boy!!! You're my boy blue!!"~ Old School

Katie Couric: "Mrs. Governor, what newspapers do you read?"
Sarah Palin: "All of them, i have a large variety of them."
Couric: "Can you name one"
Palin: A bunch of bull****... oh and "You Betcha"

“Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed.”

"What you tolerate now will be what destroys you later".

This one may have been on here before, in fact I might have posted it but it sort of goes along with one of the above:


"Depression is anger without enthusiasm."

~ Hell has three gates: lust, anger, and greed ~

:cool:

"the joy of intimacy is the result of commitment"

:)

"Commitment and Loyalty lies in trust and truth"
~~~Jan Bolinger

I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest asset or heaviest burden.
I will push you up to success or down to disappointment.
I am at your command.
Half the things you do might just as well be turned over to me,
For I can do them quickly, correctly, and profitably.
I am easily managed, just be firm with me.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.
I am not a machine, though I work with the precision of a
Machine and the intelligence of a person.
You can run me for profit, or you can run me for ruin.
Show me how you want it done. Educate me. Train me.
Lead me. Reward me.
And I will then... do it automatically.
I am your servant.
Who am I?
I am a habit. ~~~~~~~~~Author Unknown

"It is only in his physical absence that the place he occupies in our soul is affirmed."

~Pan's Labyrinth~

Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
Franklin P Adams

Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable.

"Education is the best friend.
An educated person is respected everywhere.
Education beats the beauty and the youth."

"A person should not be too honest.
Straight trees are cut first
and honest people are victimized first."

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. ~Brooks Atkinson

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs

A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest

All desirable things in life are either illegal, banned, expensive or married to someone else!!!!
:confused::eek:

"If you want to feel rich, just count the things you have that money can't buy."



"You were born an original. Don't die a copy."



"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

M, it would be nice if I could spell when I type a comment to a post, huh??? Sorry about that. Long night! : )

Pick something ordinary and elevate it to something extraordinary.
:rolleyes:

Friend... couldn't rep you... love your quotes;) ALL THREE!
shatriya, I like the last one here best... out of all the ones you have posted!

"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.”



"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance!”

Friend...couldn't rep you...love your quotes;) ALL THREE!!
shatriya, I like the last one here best...out of all the ones you have posted!

Hey startover22,
Thanks a lot, I always try to post those quotes that can be implemented in real life and which make lot of sense to a practical person.

Whenever God Closes One Door He Always Opens Another,Even Though Sometimes It's Hell in the Hallway.

My grandma use to always say this when I was younger.

I like this one so much it's in my sig.

If at first you don't succeed then skydiving definitely isn't for you.

"Life is short, Break the rules, Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly, Love truly, Laugh uncontrollably, And never regret anything that made you smile."

"Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we should dance."

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty - they merely move it from their faces into their hearts. ~Martin Buxbaum

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a fifty-dollar haircut on a fifty-cent head. ~Garrison Keillor

Good friends are like stars... You don't always see them, but you know they are always there. '

They are not just the quotes, they are the teachings.

When an elephant is in trouble even a frog will kick him.

Anger has no eyes.

Among the blind, the squint rules.

Just because lips have met doesn't mean hearts have joined.

And just because two bodies are drawn to each other doesn't mean two people are right for each other.

This is from a book by Jennifer Crusie called faking it-

"When Eve ate the apple
Her knowledge increased.
But God liked dumb women
So paradise ceased"

I thought it was interesting

WE are not bad people, we are GOOD people making BAD choices.
From the book The Human Side of Being Human

"Interestingly, koi, when put in a fish bowl, will only grow up to three inches.

When this same fish is placed in a largetank, it will grow to about nine inches long.

In a pond koican reach lengths of eighteen inches.

Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long.

The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world."

It says I have to spread the love Angel so must post here. This is a DANDY!!

When you have light around you, everything will follow you. But when you enter the dark,even your own shadow will not follow you.

Winter came down to our home one night
Quietly pirouetting in on silvery-toed slippers of snow,
And we, we were children once again.
~Bill Morgan, Jr.

I've felt like a kid these past few days! Even in sunny FL, the temps got in the 20's! :)

Found this poem today by Percy Bysshe Shelley:

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory -
Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
Rose leaves, when the rose is dead,
Are heaped for the beloved's bed;
And so thy thoughts, when thou art gone,
Love itself shall slumber on.

I thought it was absolutely beautiful. :)

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything.
They just make the best of everything!

Life's a b*t+*. And damn! Life's too short. You got to love life. And you got to love your life. Because no one else will. Be good to others. But be better to yourself... unknown

If you did a mistake doesn't mean that you are a mistake.
Don't curse yourself.

"Your personality can open doors, but only your character can keep them open."

Knowing which way to turn gives you self confidence.
Taking a chance and going the opposite way gives you a chance to see what you are made of.

"It's not what you know,it's what you can prove", Dr.Dre

"Pain is the privilege of having someone or something worth losing"

Wabi sabi acknowledges three things: "nothing is perfect, nothing lasts, and nothing is finished." So, at first glance, it seems to celebrate the very thing that causes suffering. Yet, Basho found that wabi sabi led to enlightenment. So what is going on here? Basho himself studied Zen for several years and traveled in disguise as a Zen priest, yet he clearly became attached to people and places, wept openly beside ancient battlegrounds and other sites of romance or valor. He suffered gladly the pains of attachment and sympathy, identified with nature and its pathos. Either he was not very disciplined in his Buddhist practice, or he understood something about attachment and loss that we could do well to learn.

Richard Powell

"Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push."


"A smile costs less than electricity and gives more light"

"If they can do it, you know you can."
Printed on a Dove candybar wrapper...

Go eat chocolate, I say..!

"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment."

"Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment."

It is amazing how much can be learned once it's realized there are ways of thinking other than our own. Don't close your mind.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942

There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds. ~G.K. Chesterton

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts." -- Charles ens

"Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be attributed to stupidity." -- Robert J. Hanlon

"It is amazing how much people can get done if they don't worry about who gets the credit."


"A friend is one who knows all about you but likes you just the same"

"Progress always involves risks. You can't steal second base and keep your foot on first."

Nice one Friend... gosh that is hard to live by for me;)

Too many of today's children have straight teeth and crooked morals. ~Unknown high school principal

"You aren't paid what you're worth; you're paid what you can negotiate."

How well did you negotiate:
Job Salaries-Performance Reviews-Compensation software- Salary.com (http://www.salary.com/)

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

~~~George Bernard Shaw

Captain, ye saying me needs ta find meself a new job?

"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit , wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad"

FRIEND!! I giggled when I saw this... that should be in the dictionary. I would give you rep, but it said I couldn't yet;) GREAT one for this morning!

FRIEND!!! I giggled when I saw this...that should be in the dictionary. I would give you rep, but it said I couldn't yet;) GREAT one for this morning!!

Glad I could give you a giggle starty :)

It's better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.

- Rami Belson

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."

-- John Wayne

"The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate."

-- Thomas J. Watson, Founder of IBM

"Apathy is a curse , but who cares"


"I have Kleptomania , but when it gets bad I just take something for it"

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Altenweg agrees: LMAO! As always, love it M! :)

LOL... thanks alty. Maybe I could become the "Quote" EXPERT ;)

Ooooh, I like that idea.

I'm thinking relationship expert, you're always very kind, caring, helpful, supportive, blah, blah, blah! :)

Say the word, I'll do my best to make it happen. ;)

you're always very kind, caring, helpful, supportive, blah, blah, blah! :)



Am not... I'm tough , honest!! I... uhmm... eat crocodiles for breakfast :cool:

You're a big softie and you know it. I don't buy the tough act for one minute, you're just a great big ball of cuddly fluff! Yup, that's you, cuddle fluff! :)

You're a big softie and you know it. I don't buy the tough act for one minute, you're just a great big ball of cuddly fluff! Yup, that's you, cuddle fluff! :)

No , no , no , I'm mean I tell you... here bunny , want to carrot :)

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Don't mess with the bunny M.

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"The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want." -- Ben Stein

"Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit , wisdom is knowing not to put one in a fruit salad"

Very True

One's suffering disappears when one lets oneself go, when one yields - even to sadness. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

1: She never slows down
She doesn't know why but
She knows that when
She's all alone feels
Like it's all coming down
She won't turn around
The shadows are long
And she fears if she cries
That first tear
The tears will not stop
Raining down

CHORUS:
So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it's all crashing down
You stand through the pain
You won't drown
And one day what's lost can be found
You stand in the rain

2: She won't make a sound
Alone in this fight with herself
And the fears whispering
If she stands, she'll fall down
She wants to be found but
The only way out is through
Everything she's running from
Wants to give up and lie down

CHORUS:
So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it's all crashing down
You stand through the pain
You won't drown
And one day what's lost can be found
You stand in the rain

So stand in the rain
Stand your ground
Stand up when it's all crashing down
Stand through the pain
You won't drown
And one day what's lost can be found

So stand in the rain.

Don't EVER try to sell a meteor to a Dinosaur , it wastes your time and annoys the Dinosaur.
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You know that look women get when they want sex? Me neither!
-- Drew Carey

It isn`t premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married.
-- Drew Carey

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.
-- Sting

We are all stupid, just in different subjects.

"There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves." -Jane Austen

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." - Plato

This is not literary, but from the song I Hope You Dance "I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean."

"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."

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Altenweg agrees: Good one! So, what would you do M? ;)

Well if I told you I wouldn't be able to do it ;)

Well if I told you I wouldn't be able to do it ;)

Darn the fine print! ;)

Don't run away from God, run to Him(Grandfather)

Sometimes, when you feel like you can't keep fighting, sit down, put your shield around your heart, and bask in the sun until you have the strength to stand.

The early bird gets the worm, but the early worm get eaten.

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Those who have a tidy desk do not know the joy of finding something you thought was lost forever.

friend4u178 agrees: Nice one "J" :)... I miss you!

:) Thanks "M"... it's been a very dramatic, emotional few weeks. I miss you all, too! I'll be back soon...

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
-Oscar Wilde-

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants his breakfast.

"Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby." because there is something mysteriously wonderful in a rain-kissed day!

"You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make."

Thanks for you tips, I think YouTube should post more tips video for me to editor

"Government is not the solution to our problems, government is the problem".

Ronald Reagan

"Did i listen to pop music because I was miserable?
Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?"
Nick Hornby ~High Fidelity

Great author, great book, great questions that I've often wondered myself.

Luna Lovegood: [about her father] We believe you, by the way. That He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named is back, and you fought him, and the Ministry and the Prophet are conspiring against you and Dumbledore.
Harry Potter: Thanks. Seems you're about the only ones that do.
Luna Lovegood: I don't think that's true. But I suppose that's how he wants you to feel.
Harry Potter: What do you mean?
Luna Lovegood: Well if I were You-Know-Who, I'd want you to feel cut off from everyone else. Because if it's just you alone you're not as much of a threat.

J.K. Rowling ~Order of the Phoenix

"My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to 99cents a can. That's almost $7.00 in dog money."

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman. - Maryon Pearson

"Flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." - Douglas Adams

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. - Albert Einstein

Sorry if some are repeats, just love them! :)

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."

We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and a mystery.
~ H. G. Wells

Btw: nice truck, friend!

"Most of lives failures are from people who didn't know how close to success they were when they gave up"
-Thomas Edison-

Just because someone doesn't love you the way you want them to-doesn't mean that they don't love you with all that they can...

I just think this saying shows us how to look at things for what they are and not what they're lacking.

"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

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what. You rarely win, but sometimes you do.” ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird spoken by the character Atticus Finch

Just found this thread, don't know if these have come up, but they are words to live by:

The Desiderata (http://www.sfheart.com/desiderata.html)

My baby brother is turning 20 tomorrow... crazy...

When mom and dad don't understand, a sister always will. ~Author Unknown

To the outside world we all grow old. But not to brothers and sisters. We know each other as we always were. We know each other's hearts. We share private family jokes. We remember family feuds and secrets, family griefs and joys. We live outside the touch of time. ~Clara Ortega

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counselor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too. ~Pam Brown

Sisters annoy, interfere, criticize. Indulge in monumental sulks, in huffs, in snide remarks. Borrow. Break. Monopolize the bathroom. Are always underfoot. But if catastrophe should strike, sisters are there. Defending you against all comers. ~Pam Brown

After a girl is grown, her little brothers - now her protectors - seem like big brothers. ~Astrid Alauda

More thinking and energy should be spent on more thinking and more energy. ~ Me

Plan for the worst, then if anything else happens it's gravy. - Will Rogers

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.


-- George Bernard Shaw

Do not indulge in strong drink. It makes you shoot at cops... and miss. - Robert Anson Heinlein

Love is never wanting to lose faith, never wanting to give up, and never truly moving on. Love is knowing and praying in the deepest part of what's left of your heart that they feel the same.
BETTER TO HAVE LOVED AND LOST THEN TO HAVE NEVER LOVED AT ALL

Love is that condition in which the happiness and well being of another become essential to your own. -- Robert A Heinlein

Best definition I've heard.

"Statistics show that Teen pregnancy drops off significantly after Age 20"

In life, you should only have two tools: WD-40 and Duct Tape. (Any color will suffice.)

If it doesn't move but should, use the WD-40.
If it should not move but does, use the duct tape.
Perfect!

I haven't been to this site it a while... it's good to see this thread is still running strong.

Well, a few months ago I went and got counseling for some personal issues I've been having and such. My counselor gave me this poem and she told me not hold onto it, I don't I'll ever be able to let it go now lol:

"The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice --
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do --
determined to save
the only life you could save. "

The Journey - Mary Oliver

I know it's not a quote really, but I think it fits.

Watch out, I'm in a mood.

Not really quotes, more like one-liners. :)

I wondered why the Frisbee was getting bigger, and then it hit me.

Take everything in moderation. Including moderation.

Do not follow, for I may not lead. Do not lead, for I may not follow. Just go over there somewhere, please?

Never go to bed angry, stay awake and plot your revenge.

I don't want buns of steel. I want buns of cinnamon.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

Treat each day as your last; one day you will be right.

Follow your dreams, except for that one where you're naked at work.

I had amnesia once - maybe twice.

How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you're on.

In an argument, a woman always has the last word. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with "Guess" on it. So I said "Implants?"

I'm one bad relationship away from having 30 cats.

More?

Beg. :)

And I am one bad relationship and 27 1/2 cats away... LOL

And I am one bad relationship and 27 1/2 cats away.....LOL

Starty, the 1/2 scares me! Explain! :eek:

I have two full time cats... and a cat that goes between two houses... LMAO
YUP, could never forget that cat even though some days I want to!

I have two full time cats...and a cat that goes between two houses...LMAO
YUP, could never forget that cat even though some days I want to!

Whew! Not what I was thinking at all. Glad you explained. ;)

:)

All cats are NOT grey in the dark - infinite variety. :Lazarus Long

A quote that I love and have lived by is
"Why Are You Trying So Hard To Fit In, When You Are Born To Stand Out."
Ive always been one that has been made fun of for the way I look, and that quote has really helped me through the years.

A quote that I love and have lived by is
"Why Are You Trying So Hard To Fit In, When You Are Born To Stand Out."
Ive always been one that has been made fun of for the way I look, and that quote has really helped me through the years.

I love that quote. That sure puts some things in perspective!! Loved it. :p

If I didn't know myself so well, I would introduce one of my personalities to the other just to entertain myself~~~~~~~

by Jan Bolinger

Smile as though your heart was never broken...
Dance as though you would never tire...
Live as if it were your last day on earth...

(Just a few of my own paraphrases of that famous poem... )

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass... it's about learning how to dance in the rain.

Here's one for all the lovely Ladies on here :)

"Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater. If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby.

If you give her a house, she'll give you a home. If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.

If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart. She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.

So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of sh1t."

Got to spread the love, but I had to print that to give to a close friend going through some rough times. Her thanks.

"I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what."


Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

The occasion was Atticus Finch speaking to his children after the death of Mrs. DuBois. She had Cancer, and was medically addicted to Morphine. Even though she was in great pain, she vowed to free herself of the addiction "even if it killed her, and it did."
In the previous chapter, Jem and Scout (Jean Louise) were impressed when Atticus shot and killed a rabid dog.

Tis better to beg forgiveness than to ask permission.

"As old as she was, she still missed her Daddy sometimes..."

Only Robinson Crusoe finished everything by Friday...

:)

The dread pirate Roberts takes no survivors

There is a story related in three of the four gospels where the religious authorities try to trap Jesus in his words by asking if they should pay taxes to Caesar.

The Romans were a hated occupying power. If Jesus said yes, he would have lost all his credibility with the common people, and if he answered no, they would turn him over to the Romans for advocating tax avoidance.

Here is Jesus classic answer, as told by Mark:


And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
And when they were come, they say unto him, Master, we know that thou art true, and carest for no man: for thou regardest not the person of men, but teachest the way of God in truth: Is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar, or not?
Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
And they brought it. And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription? And they said unto him, Caesar's.
And Jesus answering said unto them, Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. And they marvelled at him.

Mark 12:13-18


Many times the best answer to a question is another question. The Book of Genesis says God made man in his own image. Jesus reply was more than a novel way to get out of a conundrum, the implied question he was asking was "Whose image is on YOU?"

"I know I'm in my own little world, but it's ok. They know me here"
Anony

"I know I'm in my own little world, but it's ok. They know me here"
Anony

One of my fave quotes. Hey, it's nice to see you Jolie! Have a pretty day;)

When a man buys a new hat , he wants one just like the one he had before.

But a woman isn't that way!

With jeans... when I find a good new pair, I buy two... and look all over town if they get too rattered and tattered for at least the same brand! Friend... is this really yer impression of ladies? Can we ever really be happy? Is that what you are saying? YES WE CAN! :):)

When a man buys a new hat , he wants one just like the one he had before.

But a woman isn't that way !!

A woman should get one in every color they have.

A woman should get one in every color they have.

That should be its own quote...

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
--Marcus Garvey

I heard this when I was about 13 and have carried it with me since.

"If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started."
--Marcus Garvey

I heard this when I was about 13 and have carried it with me since.

WOW

You've remembered that for a whole 10 years ;)

WOW

You've remembered that for a whole 10 years ;)

You're the bestest, have I told you that before? I think I have. ;)

I am a quotes kind of person I live on them so I of course have many quotes that inspire me... but here are just a few that get me through the day.

"He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker than thee. If weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself." -William Shakespeare

"It's life: To wish the impossible, witness the unthinkable, live the unreasonable..."

“Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.”

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."-Maya Angelou

I could go on for days but these are just a few good ones...

You can get more done with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Willie Sutton - Bank Robber

Wealth is the means, and people are the ends. All our material riches will avail us little if we do not use them to expand the opportunities of our people. John F. Kennedy, State of the Union Message, Jan 11, 1962

O God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed, courage to change what should be changed, and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold Neibuhr, 1934

Money isn’t the root of evil, nor is the love of money. The root of all evil is democratic capitalism, whereby power and greed are in abundance. Author Unknown

Some believe that sound thinking is a term used to describe the mental activities of those who agree with us - author unknown

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy. - The Judgment of the Nations, Christopher Dawson

Incompetence:
When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you cannot do.

Incompetence:
When you earnestly believe you can compensate for a lack of skill by doubling your efforts, there's no end to what you cannot do.

A-Ha! The underlying premise for Congress.

A-Ha! The underlying premise for Congress.

Haha so true!~

Don't Panic -- Douglas Adams

The one charm of the past is that it is the past. ~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

How old would you be if you didn't know?

For me, that number changes a couple times a day!

How old would you be if you didn't know?

For me, that number changes a couple times a day!

Me too... hourly sometimes. I love this question/quote!

"The time is always right to do what is right." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"I believe in the sun, even when it is not shining. I believe in love, even when I don't feel it. I believe in God, even when there is silence." -Words scratched on the walls of a cellar in Cologne, Germany by a Jew hiding from Nazi persecution.

"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket"

"The pursuit of happiness should not conflict with the pursuit of a moral life." ~A HistorianChick original~

"The safest way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket"

Let me have this advice when I am just about to run out for some good ole fashion video poker... NICE ONE:)

"The pursuit of happiness should not conflict with the pursuit of a moral life." ~A HistorianChick original~

Love it Jess... LOVE THIS!:p

:D thanks, Starty.

I just got fed up today on a thread and this came out of the blue.

It's the "me first" mindset and it drives me nuts. Just because something makes me happy doesn't mean it is right, moral, or in the best interest of me OR my family/friends/significant other!

Lol... that's my rant.

(You didn't ask for that, did you... )

:D thanks, Starty.

I just got fed up today on a thread and this came out of the blue.

It's the "me first" mindset and it drives me nuts. Just because something makes me happy doesn't mean it is right, moral, or in the best interest of me OR my family/friends/significant other!!

Lol... that's my rant.

(You didn't ask for that, did you....)
I understand. Ya, I have a load of "me first" rants... but we could start a different thread for that one. XXOO

Love it Jess....LOVE THIS!:p

Or an ethical one, but both seem to have been lost in America.

:D thanks, Starty.

I just got fed up today on a thread and this came out of the blue.

It's the "me first" mindset and it drives me nuts. Just because something makes me happy doesn't mean it is right, moral, or in the best interest of me OR my family/friends/significant other!!

Lol... that's my rant.

(You didn't ask for that, did you....)

Isn't it the "me first" or WIIFM (Whats in it for me?) that got us in the predicament in which we find ourselves today?

I understand. Ya, I have a load of "me first" rants...but we could start a different thread for that one. XXOO

Starty, we could start an entire FORUM for those rants.

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

Here's one from an old guy I've recently read about:
"How much better a thing it is to be envied than to be pitied." ~ Herodotus (440-420 ? BC)

Regina Brett quotes ~ about growing old (she's 90 years old now) :


Life isn't fair, but it's still good

Your job won't take care of you when you're sick. Your friends and family will. Stay in touch!

It's OK to get angry with God once in a while. He can take it.

Don't compare your life to others. You have no idea what their hourney is all about.

Get rid of anything that isn't useful, beautiful or joyful.

It's never to late to have a happy childhood. Surely, the second one is up to you and no one else.

Burn the candles, use the nice sheets and wear the fancy lingerie. Every day is special. Including today.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

Time heals almost everything. Give things time.

However good or bad a situation is, it will change.

Don't take yourself too seriously. No one else does.

Growing old beats the alternative -- dying young.

Your children get only one childhood.

Lilfe isn't tied with a bow, but it's still a gift.

Where's everybody been?? :confused:
Am I now actually talking to myself... :rolleyes:

Another recent one I really like:

"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson


:cool:

Thou art God - Stranger in a Strange Land

"Pink eye=hell"
That is all I can think about so... thats all I can give right now:)

Where's everybody been?!?! :confused:
Am I now actually talking to myself..... :rolleyes:

Another recent one I really like:

"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not." ~Thomas Jefferson


:cool:

AND... you are never alone Captain, I like yer quote!

Home is where my heart abides, where my story began, where my history lies. It is not a structure, nor a location, but in the souls of my family. It is a charmed place, a lovely ideal, a safe haven. It holds the keys to my personality, the definition of who I am, and the reason for why I smile. I owe my life to those that make up my home; for without them, I would be less of me.
~A HistorianChick Original~

"Without men, civilization would only last until the oil needed changing."
~~ Fred Reed On Everything
:cool:

Gun control means using both hands -- Ted Nugent

We say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. It never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. ~Marcel Proust

"Take time to be quiet." ~Zig Ziglar~

That's especially meaningful to me because, too often we lose site of what we really need to be concentrating on because of the extra "noise" that we've created for ourselves.

Thanks!

In an interview,
General Norman Schwarzkopf was asked if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people who have harboured and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated the 9/11 attacks on America.

His answer was classic Schwarzkopf.


The General said,

"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. OUR job is to arrange the meeting."
AMEN

Gun control means using both hands -- Ted Nugent

"I've known a couple of Ted's to be right about a lot of things!!" ~ Me

"I've known a couple of Ted's to be right about a lot of things!!" ~ Me

Wango the Tango

"Don't quit on me, I'm about to come alive!"

Can't let this one go, I heard it in a Train song yesterday... LOVE IT!
Where did you all go with yer great quotes and life lessons? HUH? Come back!!

Music quotes, eh?

"All you need is love." John Lennon 1964

"LOVE IS ALL AROUND YOU" Tesla! Woot Woot! (1980 something? )

Oh Lord, please don't let me be misunderstood - Nina Simone

Lyrics by Bennie Benjamin

Charted in the US by Eric Burdon & the Animals

Hey, HistorianChick!

Since this thread is now archived and not showing up on the daily posts, have you considered starting another thread about quotes that might have a different theme, please? Generally, the people now posting on this one are the ones who've already posted on it or who happen to visit the forum topic area, see the thread and take an interest in it.

Thanks!

Hey, HistorianChick!

Since this thread is now archived and not showing up on the daily posts, have you considered starting another thread about quotes that might have a different theme, please? Generally, the people now posting on this one are the ones who've already posted on it or who happen to visit the forum topic area, see the thread and take an interest in it.

Thanks!

Archived clough? :confused: It shows up for me at the top of the forum as soon as someone posts on it.

Hi, friend4u178!

Yes, it still appears in the forum topic area, but not on the daily ones. There's a difference.

Anyone who has posted on this thread or will post on it will still receive notification that someone has posted on it.

My posting here should now show up on the top of the daily list, if this thread wasn't archived.

Thanks!

It's not there...

Thanks!

Thanks for clarifying clough , to be honest I didn't realise there was a Daily list?

Anyway all good cheers :)

New-ness showing, I too have to ask, what's a daily list? Is it to do with the orange skin?

New-ness showing, I too have to ask, what's a daily list? Is it to do with the orange skin?

Cats, I'm not new and I would have asked.

The orange skin thing makes sense. I'm on the eye friendly skin, not the "burn your retina" skin. ;)

Thanks, guys. Ignorance shared is less embarrassing. Clough, oh fountain of enlightenment, please educate us.

Hey Alty, reminds me of a funny story. I was VP of a small Beauty Supply store. Went to all the meetings with reps, learned about all the products, went to market in Dallas to buy for the store, etc.

The previous owner (who I would not agree to work for) had come in to help as a salesman on the road since his brother owned the business at that time. Every day.......everyday........he would come in and ask some assinine question and I would politely answer each question with much diligence. I knew he was trying to embarrass me thinking I would not be able to answer the questions he asked about products, salesman, etc. I got tired of it. One evening, he came in off the road......asked one of his "quality" questions with disdain in his voice. Very seriously after calling him by name and making eye contact with him, I said, "You know you have always heard "Ignorance is Bliss? Well (name) I am probably the happiest person you will ever meet."
No more questions from him ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! He treated me with respect and never crossed that line again! LOL
(Talked to Chery on the phone yesterday! She sounded amazingly great! So anxious for her to get home and get back on computer!)
Hi all.......haven't forgotten anyone, just been going to two Nursing Homes a day and now my sis-n-law is in hospital.......given maybe a week............so have been pressed for time and energy.........Miss all of you!

Hi, jrebel7!

I haven't forgotten about you! Things have been pretty rough here! I'm glad that you got to speak with Chery!

By your sister-in-law being given a week... What do you mean by that, please?

Thanks!

Hi, jrebel7!

I haven't forgotten about you! Things have been pretty rough here! I'm glad that you got to speak with Chery!

By your sister-in-law being given a week... What do you mean by that, please?

Thanks!

Sorry Clough for not clarifying. She has had a 10 year battle with cancer and has fought a valiant fight! She will win but not in this world, she will be going to a better place.

Dear jrebel7!

Thank you for your clarification! Yes, a better place...

Thanks!

Sorry Clough for not clarifying. She has had a 10 year battle with cancer and has fought a valiant fight! She will win but not in this world, she will be going to a better place.

10 years! Oh Rebbie, I'm so sorry. Cancer is a horrible disease. A better place is right. She won't have to worry about this blasted cancer any more.

I'm glad you talked to Chery. I really want to call but I can't spare the money for long distance right now. Things are tight, and now Christmas is around the corner and hubby goes back to school in January so things will be even tighter. I'm working now so I hope things get a bit easier, but it will take some time to catch up on all the bills.

Airing all my dirty laundry. ;)

If you get a chance to call Chery again please tell her I send my love and I'm thinking of her and lover her. I feel horrible that I can't do it myself. :(

Really sorry to hear about your sister Rebbie , so here's a little something that I'd like to share that I think you will love...


The Pink Dress


There was this little girl sitting by herself in the park.

Everyone passed by her and never stopped to see why she looked so sad.

Dressed in a worn pink dress, barefoot and dirty, the girl just sat And watched the people go by.

She never tried to speak.

She never said a word.

Many people passed by her, but no one would stop.

The next day I decided to go back to the park in curiosity to see If the little girl would still be there.

Yes, she was there, right in the very spot where she was Yesterday, and still with the same sad look in her eyes

Today I was to make my own move and walk over to the little girl.

For as we all know, a park full of strange people is not a place for young children to play alone.

As I got closer I could see the back of the little girl's dress.

It was grotesquely shaped.

I figured that was the reason people just passed by and made no Effort to speak to her.

Deformities are a low blow to our society and, heaven forbid if you make a step toward assisting someone who is different.

As I got closer, the little girl lowered her eyes slightly to Avoid my intent stare.

As I approached her, I could see the shape of her back more clearly.

She was grotesquely shaped in a humped over form.

I smiled to let her know it was OK; I was there to help, to talk.

I sat down beside her and opened with a simple, 'Hello'

The little girl acted shocked, and stammered a 'hi '; after a long stare into my eyes.

I smiled and she shyly smiled back.

We talked until darkness fell and the park was completely empty.

I asked the girl why she was so sad.

The little girl looked at me with a sad face said, 'Because, I'm Different... '

I immediately said, 'That you are!'; and smiled.

The little girl acted even sadder and said, 'I know.'

'Little girl,' I said, 'you remind me of an angel, sweet and innocent.'

She looked at me and smiled, then slowly she got to her feet and Said, 'Really?'

'Yes, you're like a little Guardian Angel sent to watch over all the people walking by.'

She nodded her head yes, and smiled.

With that she opened the back of her pink dress and allowed her Wings to spread, then she said 'I am.'

'I'm your Guardian Angel,' with a twinkle in her eye.

I was speechless -- sure I was seeing things.

She said, 'For once you thought of someone other than yourself.

My job here is done'..

I got to my feet and said, 'Wait, why did no one stop to help an Angel?'


She looked at me, smiled, and said, 'You're the only one that could see me,' and then she was gone.

And with that, my life was changed dramatically.

So, when you think you're all you have, remember, your angel is Always watching over you.

Like the story says, we all need someone...

And, every one of your friends is an Angel in their own way.

The value of a friend is measured in the heart.


I hope your Guardian Angel watches over you always.

M, I have to spread the rep, stingy greenie giver that I am. ;)

That sent shivers down my spine. Good shivers.

Beautiful. Thank you for sharing. :)

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States

Oh my! HistorianChick, you've tossed out a question in one of my favorite areas: quotes. I actually collect them. I'm going to go put on a pot of Constant Comment, and once I have a cup poured, I will start listing a few of the ones I just can't do without.

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These first few are best understood if you know who Leo Buscaglia was or at least heard him talk. Reading his books was almost as good as listening to him talk (shout), but listeing to him talk was more fun.

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. There is nothing that is an accident. You are a special combination for a purpose-and don't let them tell you otherwise, even if they tell you that purpose is an illusion. (Live an illusion if you have to). You are that combination so that you can do what is essential for you to do. Don't ever believe that you have nothing to contribute. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry. And only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.
Leo Buscaglia

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.
Leo Buscaglia

Don't smother each other. No one can grow in the shade.
Leo Buscaglia

Each of our acts makes a statement as to our purpose.
Leo Buscaglia

I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving and then you do it.
Leo Buscaglia

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.
Leo Buscaglia

It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo Buscaglia

Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
Leo Buscaglia

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia

I have a feeling that when my ship comes in I'll be at the airport.
- - Charles M. Schultz (Peanuts)

I love those who do not know how to live for today.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think.
Friedrich Nietzsche

I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Idleness is the parent of psychology.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.
Friedrich Nietzsche

In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!
Friedrich Nietzsche

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.
Friedrich Nietzsche

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.
Thomas More

And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
Thomas More

The heart that has truly loved never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close.
Thomas More

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
Thomas More

Whoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
Thomas More

I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

If you are going to build something in the air it is always better to build castles than houses of cards.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc. at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are very many people who read simply to prevent themselves from thinking.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.
C. S. Lewis

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. Lewis

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."
C. S. Lewis

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
C. S. Lewis

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
C. S. Lewis

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
C. S. Lewis

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I'll stop here and put together another page of quotes. I'll try not to keep the new page so heavy. :)

Rhiannnonn

By-the-way, jrebel7, I love your new avatar!

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
-T. E. Lawrence

"I often wonder whether men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
-Katherine Hepburn

"Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."
-Katherine Hepburn

"Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do."
-Katherine Hepburn

"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
-Katherine Hepburn

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
-Clark Gable

I am intrigued by glamorous women... A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.
-Clark Gable

[on playing Rhett Butler] I discovered that Rhett was even harder to play than I had anticipated. With so much of Scarlett preceding his entrance, Rhett's scenes were all climaxes. There was a chance to build up to Scarlett, but Rhett represented drama and action every time he appeared. He didn't figure in any of the battle scenes, being a guy who hated war, amid he wasn't in the toughest of the siege of Atlanta shots. What I was fighting for was to hold my own in the first half of the picture - which is all Vivien's - because I felt that after the scene with the baby, Bonnie, Rhett could control the end of the film. That scene where Bonnie dies, and the scene where I strike Scarlett and she accidentally tumbles down stairs, thus losing her unborn child, were the two that worried me most.
-Clark Gable

Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour.
-Clark Gable

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Between two evils, I always choose the one I never tried before.
- - Mae West

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.
- - Eva Gabor

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
- - Jessica Rabbit "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.
- - Pat Boone

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
- - Oscar Levant

I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.
- - Robert Frost

I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure.
- - Michael Flatley

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
- - David Lee Roth

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
- - Jack Kerouac

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
- - Katherine Hepburn

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
- - -Billy Joel

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.
- - -Garrison Keillor

Sex appeal is 50 per cent what you've got and 50 per cent what people think you've got.
- - Sophia Loren

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
- - -Madonna (1991)

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
- - -Norman Mailer (1992)

Cocaine habit forming? Of course not, I ought to know. I've been using it for years.
- - Tallulah Bankhead

I only drink to steady my nerves. Sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months.
- - W. C Fields

When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, I didn't like it, I didn't inhale it, and never tried it again.
- - William Jefferson Clinton

The only thing I thought might ever kill me off was clean living. I thought, "How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?"
- - Iggy Pop

You know, it's cigarettes that killed (Jerry) Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.
- - John Mellencamp, 1996

I like children. If they're properly cooked.
- - W. C. Fields

I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.
--Johny Depp

I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built.
- - Marilu Henner

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.
- - -Andrea Newman

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
- - Zsa Zsa Gabor

I like two kinds of men: domestic and imported.
- - Mae West

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
- - Zsa Zsa Gabor

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
--Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stone, December 2, 1976.

Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.
- - Ru Paul

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen.
- - Dolly Parton

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
- - -Zsa Zsa Gabor

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
- - Mick Jagger

All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible."
-T. E. Lawrence

"I often wonder whether men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then."
-Katherine Hepburn

"Love' has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything."
-Katherine Hepburn

"Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do."
-Katherine Hepburn

"If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
-Katherine Hepburn

It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
-Clark Gable

I am intrigued by glamorous women... A vain woman is continually taking out a compact to repair her makeup. A glamorous woman knows she doesn't need to.
-Clark Gable

[on playing Rhett Butler] I discovered that Rhett was even harder to play than I had anticipated. With so much of Scarlett preceding his entrance, Rhett's scenes were all climaxes. There was a chance to build up to Scarlett, but Rhett represented drama and action every time he appeared. He didn't figure in any of the battle scenes, being a guy who hated war, amid he wasn't in the toughest of the siege of Atlanta shots. What I was fighting for was to hold my own in the first half of the picture - which is all Vivien's - because I felt that after the scene with the baby, Bonnie, Rhett could control the end of the film. That scene where Bonnie dies, and the scene where I strike Scarlett and she accidentally tumbles down stairs, thus losing her unborn child, were the two that worried me most.
-Clark Gable

Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour.
-Clark Gable

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Between two evils, I always choose the one I never tried before.
- - Mae West

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.
- - Eva Gabor

I'm just an old maid with an attraction to men.
- - Janet Reno

I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.
- - Jessica Rabbit "Who Framed Roger Rabbit?"

There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.
- - Pat Boone

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
- - Oscar Levant

I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed.
- - Robert Frost

I'm not an egomaniac like a lot of people say. But I am the world's best dancer, that's for sure.
- - Michael Flatley

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.
- - David Lee Roth

I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law.
- - David Dinkins

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
- - Jack Kerouac

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.
- - Katherine Hepburn

There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
- - -Billy Joel

Sex is good, but not as good as fresh sweet corn.
- - -Garrison Keillor

Sex appeal is 50 per cent what you've got and 50 per cent what people think you've got.
- - Sophia Loren

Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
- - -Madonna (1991)

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
- - -Norman Mailer (1992)

Cocaine habit forming? Of course not, I ought to know. I've been using it for years.
- - Tallulah Bankhead

I only drink to steady my nerves. Sometimes I'm so steady I don't move for months.
- - W. C Fields

When I was in England I experimented with marijuana a time or two, I didn't like it, I didn't inhale it, and never tried it again.
- - William Jefferson Clinton

The only thing I thought might ever kill me off was clean living. I thought, "How am I going to listen to that horrible noise I make without a gram of coke and a couple of double Jack Daniels?"
- - Iggy Pop

You know, it's cigarettes that killed (Jerry) Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes.
- - John Mellencamp, 1996

I like children. If they're properly cooked.
- - W. C. Fields

I like dogs better [than people]. They give you unconditional love. They either lick your face or bite you, but you always know where they're coming from. With people, you never know which ones will bite. The difference between dogs and men is that you know where dogs sleep at night.
- - Greg Louganis

I love people. And when you love people that much that you're disappointed in them every day, that love can turn to hate in a flash of a second.
--Johny Depp

I love the way men smell. I love the way they taste, their texture, the way they're built.
- - Marilu Henner

I love the male body, it's better designed than the male mind.
- - -Andrea Newman

I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
- - Zsa Zsa Gabor

I like two kinds of men: domestic and imported.
- - Mae West

I want a man who's kind and understanding. Is that too much to ask of a millionaire?
- - Zsa Zsa Gabor

It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
--Jimi Hendrix, Rolling Stone, December 2, 1976.

Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.
- - Carole Burnett

With all due respect to the world's great drummers - it ain't brain surgery.
- - Mickey Dolenz, 1996

Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.
- - Ru Paul

If I hadn't been a woman, I'd have been a drag queen.
- - Dolly Parton

How many husbands have I had? You mean apart from my own?
- - -Zsa Zsa Gabor

I should think that being my old lady would be all the satisfaction or career any woman needs.
- - Mick Jagger

And now, for my favorite: Albert Einstein...

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
Albert Einstein

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Albert Einstein

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
Albert Einstein

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.
Albert Einstein

When the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert Einstein

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
Albert Einstein

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Albert Einstein

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
Albert Einstein

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
Albert Einstein

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Albert Einstein


The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.
Albert Einstein

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. -- when asked to describe radio
--Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. --- "Geometry and Experience", January 27, 1921
--Albert Einstein

If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. -- Observer , Jan. 15, 1950
--Albert Einstein

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Albert Einstein

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.
Albert Einstein

Force always attracts men of low morality.
Albert Einstein

God always takes the simplest way.
Albert Einstein

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.
Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
Albert Einstein

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.
Albert Einstein

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
Albert Einstein

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
Albert Einstein

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.
Albert Einstein

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Albert Einstein

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
Albert Einstein

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert Einstein

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Albert Einstein

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
Albert Einstein

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Albert Einstein

Love is a better teacher than duty.
Albert Einstein

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.
Albert Einstein

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Albert Einstein

He who cherishes the values of culture cannot fail to be a pacifist.
Albert Einstein

The conscientious objector is a revolutionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society.
Albert Einstein

My pacificism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of people is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.
Albert Einstein

There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternative service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war.
Albert Einstein

It is characteristic of the military mentality that nonhuman factors (atom bombs, strategic bases, weapons of all sorts, the possession of raw materials, etc) are held essential, while the human being, his desires, and thoughts - in short, the psychological factors - are considered as unimportant and secondary... The individual is degraded... to "human materiel."
Albert Einstein

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Albert Einstein

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Albert Einstein
Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression.
Albert Einstein

He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.
Albert Einstein

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."
Albert Einstein

"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism...."
Albert Einstein

By-the-way, jrebel7, I love your new avatar!!

Thank you! I haven't been receiving notifications so didn't see your comment until now. I appreciate your kind words. Thanks again! :)

It's very flattering portrait of you, rebbie!

"A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits." - Richard M. Nixon, 37th President of the United States

I love this!

"Great mind discuss ideas.
Average minds discuss events.
Small minds discuss people."
~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Ronald Reagan - "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

Graffiti on the Berlin Wall - This wall will fall, beliefs become reality.

If Ants are such busy workers , where do they find the time to go to all the picnics ?

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Happy New Year! :)

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed. - Cavett Robert

Success should not be measured by the position someone has reached in life, but by the obstacles overcome while trying to succeed.

"Cancer cannot cripple love, it cannot shatter hope, it cannot corrode faith, it cannot eat away peace, it cannot destroy confidence, it cannot kill friendship, it cannot shut out the memories, it cannot silence courage, it cannot invade the soul, it cannot reduce eternal life. It cannot quench the Spirit."

Just missing my Dad lately...

"Footprints", always makes me know things will get better. From the Bible Psalms 30 ch.verse 5, Weeping may endureth for the night, but joy cometh in the morning. God Bless you

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends."

~ Martin Luther King Jr.

"Faith is taking the first step,even when you can't see the whole staircase."

Martin Luther King Jr.

Always forgive your enemies - Nothing annoys them so much.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

There are three sides to any argument: your side, my side and the right side.

An consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.

Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

When you’re right, no one remembers. When you’re wrong, no one forgets.

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

If you can’t see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

A recent police study found that you’re much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little
Bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

"Faith is taking the first step,even when you can't see the whole staircase."

Martin Luther King Jr.

If you love something set it free. If it returns it is yours, if not,it never was. :rolleyes:

Hello all! I've been abundantly blessed by my virtual coffee chats with so many of you in this wonderful forum on Books and Literature! (The Relationship forum is fun too, but this is where inspiration comes from... "the stuff dreams are made of" :) )

Anyways... We all have favorite quotes, quotes that have touched a chord in our hearts and minds, quotes that have influenced our decisions, inspired us to go that extra mile, give us courage to face the day, and shown us what real living is like.

Lets share these divine inspirations with our little world here - on this little posting. I'll start with one of my all-time favorites....

Being a star-gazer myself and being the proud owner of a tempestuous personal history, this is one of my favorites - it reminds me that no matter what is swirling around me at a given time, I can get through it.

"The most tempestuous wind cannot disturb the quiet of the stars."

Literary wishes and Shakespearean dreams,
HistorianChick

If it is to be it is up to me

:)
"We must use time as a tool, not as a couch".

" John Fitzgerald Kennedy"

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is when good men do nothing" Edmund Burke:)

“It matters if you just don't give up”
~ Stephen Hawking

If you love something set it free. If it returns it is yours, if not,it never was. :rolleyes:

I've got a different version of this.

If you love something set it free.
If it comes back to you, it's yours.
If it doesn't, hunt it down and kill it. ;)

:p

That is so hilarious! Wish I'd heard that when I was in High School, there would be one less "player,"
In the world today (ijust kidding) but that quote is so funny.

That is so hilarious !! Wish I'd heard that when I was in High School, there would be one less "player,"
in the world today (ijust kidding) but that quote is so funny.

"A good laugh is contagious to those around you".:D:D:D"

Always forgive your enemies - Nothing annoys them so much.

If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

There are three sides to any argument: your side, my side and the right side.

An consultant is someone who takes a subject you understand and makes it sound confusing.

Never argue with a fool. People might not know the difference.

When you’re right, no one remembers. When you’re wrong, no one forgets.

Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.

If you can’t see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.

A recent police study found that you’re much more likely to get shot by a fat cop if you run.

Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little
bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

Definitely good ones, friend4u178!

Thanks! :)

Definitely good ones, friend4u178!

Thanks! :)

I love your quotes.. They are great!:D:D:D

“The only value men can offer me is the work of their mind. When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.” - Ayn Rand
... from Sanya

“The only value men can offer me is the work of their mind. When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if I am wrong, I will; one of us will win, but both will profit.” - Ayn Rand
...from Sanya

"Every man dies.Not every man really lives". William Wallace (Mel Gibson) Braveheart:):):)

"Every man dies.Not every man really lives". William Wallace (Mel Gibson) Braveheart:):):)

Great movie, by the way..

Great movie, by the way.....!"Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err" MOHANDAS GHANDI:)

Braveheart is a masterpiece and so is Mel Gibson... My very own quote.:D:D

The Little Angel Knocking
at the Door






There came a frantic knock

At the doctor's office door,

A knock, more urgent than

He had ever heard before.




~~~~




"Come in, Come in,"

The impatient doctor said,

"Come in, Come in,

before you wake the dead."




~~




In walked a frightened little girl,

A child no more than nine,

It was plain for all to see,

She had troubles on her mind.




~~~




"Oh doctor, I beg you,

please come with me,

My mother is surely dying,

she's as sick as she can be."




~~~~




"I don't make house calls,

bring your mother here,"

"But she's too sick,

so you must come or she will die I fear."




~~~~




The doctor, touched by her devotion,

Decided he would go,

She said he would be blessed,

More than he could know.




~~~~




She led him to her house

Where her mother lay in bed,

Her mother was so very sick

She couldn't raise her head.




~~~~




But her eyes cried out for help

And help her the doctor did,

She would have died that very night

Had it not been for her kid.




~~~~




The doctor got her fever down

And she lived through the night,

And morning brought the doctor signs,

That she would be all right.




~~~~




The doctor said he had to leave

But would return again by two,

And later he came back to check,

Just like he said he'd do.




~~~~




The mother praised the doctor

For all the things he'd done,

He told her she would have died,

Were it not for her little one.




~~~~




"How proud you must be

of your wonderful little girl,

It was her pleading that made me come,

she is really quite a pearl!




~~~~




"But doctor, my daughter died

Over three years ago,

Is the picture on the wall

Of the little girl you know?"




~~~~




The doctor's legs went limp

For the picture on the wall,

Was the same little girl

For whom he'd made this call.




~~~~




The doctor stood motionless,

For quite a little while,

And then his solemn face,

Was broken by his smile.




~~~~




He was thinking of that frantic knock

Heard at his office door,

And of the beautiful little angel

That had walked across his floor.




~~~~

Every story has three sides to it...

Yours , Mine and the Facts!

Fact of Life.. The only time a windshield wiper will work properly, is when it's holding a parking ticket... Author Unknown

Fact of Life..The only time a windshield wiper will work properly, is when it's holding a parking ticket...Author Unknown
Behind every successful man is a wife with great credit cards...

If you don't think every day is a great day try going without one.

"I have a "carpe diem" mug and, truthfully, at six in the morning the words do not make me want to seize the day. They make me want to slap a dead poet." ~Joanne Sherman

'If women are so bloody perfect at multitasking, how come they can't have a headache and sex at the same time?'

Ah, ah, ah, Angel... depends on the woman! Surely my Guardian Angel is not making a blanket statement... well, I am assuming this it NOT your quote but since no name is with the quote, had to tease you just a bit. I have been absent for awhile. Thought I would jump in here and let you know I'm still kickin'! Princess Rebbie is still riding the Rebel and teasing her Guardian Angel. All is well with the world. Sex is a great way to get rid of a headache... FOR SOME WOMEN... WHO ARE GREAT AT MULTI-TASKING! LOL I hope I made you smile Angel. : )

Rebbie!!

I missed you love. I hope you're well.

Don't be such a stranger. It's not the same without you. :(

'If women are so bloody perfect at multitasking, how come they can't have a headache and sex at the same time?'




"A woman wears her tears like jewelry"... Author Unknown

Rebbie!!!!!

I missed you love. I hope you're well.

Don't be such a stranger. It's not the same without you. :(

Thanks Alty! I have missed everyone. Have just been going through a lot. I will write a personal note later. Love to all!

"If peace be in the heart, the wildest winter storm is full of solemn beauty!"

~~~ C.F. Richardson

Thanks Alty! I have missed everyone. Have just been going through a lot. I will write a personal note later. Love to all!

"If peace be in the heart, the wildest winter storm is full of solemn beauty!"

~~~ C.F. Richardson


Friendship is like a violin; the music may stop now and then, but the strings will last forever.

Author Unknown

Thank you jrebel7. Nice meeting you.:):)
I've only been here a couple of months so I still mess up a lot.

]My favorite quote.. "When you feel you've reached the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on. Author Unknown:):)

Nice meeting you also Kitkat22. Don't worry about messing up... you will never meet any better friends than you will here. Everyone helped me so much when I first started they will you also. Everyone is understanding. We have all been new at one time or another. Since I don't have a quote at the moment, will close and wish you well. I have been away but hope to be back more often.