A "quote" for all occasions..(did I spell that right?)

[MCT]

"Blow, blow, thou winter wind
Thou art not so unkind,
As man's ingratitude."

--William Shakespeare--

[MCT]

For little Chrissy Misfit:

"Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life"

--Terry Pratchett--

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Introducing:

?Hi, I?m Al Gore. I used to be the next President of the United States.?

?You win some, you lose some?and then there?s that little-known third category.?

Schpiel for the day:

?The experience of the Reagan Administration was in many ways disappointing to the right wing,? he said. ?It was satisfying to have a champion who won the hearts of so many Americans and was so eloquent as a presenter of many of their ideas, but it was deeply disappointing to them that he bowed to reason far more than they would have wanted. The largest tax increase in history was not the Clinton-Gore increase in ?93 but what Reagan did in ?82. That was really disturbing to them. His arms-control initiatives, which I was a big part of, were very troubling to people like Richard Perle, who is very prominent in the genesis of the Iraq policy. There was a determination, in the aftermath of the Reagan experience, to prepare themselves for the next opportunity they had. So that they would be comprehensive and uncompromising across the board. Then, when Gingrich and his crew succeeded, in ?94, they laid the foundation for the identification of all the discrete levers of power and particular programs, policies, offices, agencies that needed, in their view, to be transformed. . . . Bush, as a candidate, basically shook hands with this collection of groups that were bound together to respect each other?s respective self-interest. What they had in common was that they were all powerful and had a set of objectives that were counter to the public interest.?


One good schpiel deserves another:

"If the only tool you use for measuring value is a price tag or monetization, then those values that are not easily monetized begin to look like they have no value. And so there?s an easy contempt, which they summon on a moment?s notice for tree-huggers or people concerned about global warming.?

-- Al Gore

http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?040913fa_fact

[MCT]

'Tis death! and peace, indeed, is here,
And ease from shame, and rest from fear.
There's nothing can dismarble now
The smoothness of that limpid brow.
But is a calm like this, in truth,
The crowning end of life and youth,
And when this boon rewards the dead,
Are all debts paid, has all been said?

--Matthew Arnold/excerpt from - Youth and Calm--

[MCT]

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.

--Truman Capote--

[MCT]

"Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions."

--Aristotle--

[2NaFish]

I left in love, laughter and in truth; and where ever those three are found i am there in spirit too. - Bill Hicks.

[MCT]

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."

--Charles M. Schulz/Snoopy--

[D]

"it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it"
                                                                                                               aristotle

[MCT]

"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

--Tallulah Bankhead--

[axls_locomotive]

"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future,"

Galadriel

[MCT]

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."

--Anthony Burgess--

[axls_locomotive]

"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity. "

Elvis Presley

[MCT]

From me to you (whoever you are):

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech."

--Martin Fraquhar Tupper--

[MCT]

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."

--Albert Einstein--

[Jim]

"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him"

Keaton (repeated by Verbal), The Usual Suspects.

[MCT]

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

--Napoleon Bonaparte--

[Prometheus]

To J.R. tjough you may never read this

"What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving, how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so."

-From Hamlet

[Prometheus]

for those in a growing point.....

"If you can't get rid of the
skeleton in your closet,
you'd best teach it to dance."
-- George Bernard Shaw

[Prometheus]

Time is both God and the Devil. Without it we arenothing and know nothing, With it we are but its slaves in its ever advancing wave of our own demise.

-Prometheus sept 04