Post a quote me hearty's!

[rovingtar]

The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow of the earth on the moon and I have more faith in the Shadow than in the Church.

Attrib To Ferdinand Magellan (Spring 1480 – 27 April 1521)

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784) British poet, critic, and lexicographer. His "Dictionary" p. 348. 16 Mar 1759

[Capn Bob]

"They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully: unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that it is in a body that, in the morning, is going to be hanged."

T. Pratchett, Going Postal

[Hawk the QM]

The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. -- Hunter Thompson

I'm late, was there a rule saying they had to be good quotes?

[Graydog]

"You can take glory with you when it's your time to go."

Errol Flynn as General Custer in "They died with their boots on"

[rovingtar]

"Twenty Years from today, you will regret far worse the things you did not do, than those you did. So cast off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails, Explore, Dream, Discover."

Samuell Clemens

[BriarRose Kildare]

I'll bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. ~Author Unknown

[BlackSwanRogue]

"When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intelligence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them"

Eliphas Levi

Edited October 30, 2008 by BlackSwanRogue

[rovingtar]

There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.

Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - 1980) English director

[BlackSwanRogue]

"Yes, the night. It always seems to allow one to be more in touch with oneself, with what he truly is."

Barnabas Collins

[BriarRose Kildare]

For our Election Day

George Washington is the only president who didn't blame the previous administration for his troubles. ~Author Unknown

An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. ~T.S. Eliot

How come we choose from just two people to run for president and 50 for Miss America? ~Author Unknown

Mankind will never see an end of trouble until... lovers of wisdom come to hold political power, or the holders of power... become lovers of wisdom. ~Plato, The Republic

[Rev.Sam]

Some favs:

"Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyways"- John Wayne

"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do, doesn't mean its useless"- Thomas Edison

"assassination is the extreme form of censorship"- George Bernard Shaw

[RedJessi]

My favorite Hemingway quote - and the inspiration for one of my tattoos: "The world breaks everyone. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places"

[blackjohn]

Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long

precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing

particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a

little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of

driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I

find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp,

drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily

pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every

funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper

hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me

from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking

people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon

as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a

philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly

take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but

knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish

very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me.

[Rev.Sam]

Both, great quotes guys

Two others I like. One a Hemingway

"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen"- Ernest Hemingway

"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves"- Rudyard Kipling

[Christine]

My favorite Hemingway quote - and the inspiration for one of my tattoos: "The world breaks everyone. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places"

Ah, I just saw that quote recently the other day.

[RedJessi]

My favorite Hemingway quote - and the inspiration for one of my tattoos: "The world breaks everyone. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places"

Ah, I just saw that quote recently the other day.

There's a similar one a friend told me, though I cannot find a source for it: Damaged people are dangerous, because they know how to survive.

[Graydog]

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money. -Ben Franklin

Edited November 4, 2008 by Graydog

[Capn Bob]

You can have Barnabas, the most indecisive man in Collinsport...me, I'm going for Angelique!

"Yes, the night. It always seems to allow one to be more in touch with oneself, with what he truly is."

Barnabas Collins

[blackjohn]

From a poem by Li Po...

Tangled grasses lie matted with death.

But generals keep at it, and for what?

Isn't it clear that weapons are the tools of misery.

The great sages never waited til the need for such things arose.

[Red Cat Jenny]

A quote I have long had tacked to my wall

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

-Dwight Eisenhower

[Matusalem]

"Oh, I see" said the blind man...as he picked up his hammer and saw.

Edited November 5, 2008 by Matusalem

[blackjohn]

A quote I have long had tacked to my wall

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.

-Dwight Eisenhower

A classic. Somewhere in my cube I have the entire transcript of the speech.

[Crows Nest Vintage]

Mae West Quotes

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.

She always reminded me of my grandmother

What famous line made this lady fab u lous

Why don't you come on up and see me sometime -- when I've got nothin' on but the radio. Why don't you come up sometime and see me? I'm home every evening.

Come up. I'll tell your fortune. Ah, you can be had.

Mae West had quite a way with words and must have had a part of writing some of the movie scenes

another of her famous jests

When women go wrong, men go right after them.

Edited November 5, 2008 by Crows Nest Vintage

[BriarRose Kildare]

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them. ~Desmond Tutu

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~Dan Wilcox and Thad Mumford, "Identity Crisis," M*A*S*H

[Rev.Sam]

Hee, more quotey goodness

"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Let the other sonofabitch die for his."

George S. Patton

"Revolutions always come around again. That's why they are called revolutions"

Terry Pratchett.

"The body is a sacred Garment"

Martha Graham

I really like the Patton one, as it really shows th' salt of the Old Man