Quote of The Day

[bekosh]

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[Holding the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch]
King Arthur: How does it... um... how does it work?
Sir Lancelot: I know not, my liege.
King Arthur: Consult the Book of Armaments.
Brother Maynard: Armaments, chapter two, verses nine through twenty-one.
Cleric: [reading] And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, "O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy." And the Lord did grin. And the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths, and carp and anchovies, and orangutans and breakfast cereals, and fruit-bats and large chu...
Brother Maynard: Skip a bit, Brother...
Cleric: And the Lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
Brother Maynard: Amen.
All: Amen.
King Arthur: Right. One... two... five.
Galahad: Three, sir.
King Arthur: Three.

 

[LadyFish]

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill

 

[LadyFish]

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"Some people are like Slinkies.
They're really good for nothing.
But they still bring a smile to your face
when you push them down a flight of stairs"

 

[bekosh]

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LF, those are 2 of my favorite quotes. Love the slinky.8)

Here are some from Theodore Roosevelt.

The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.

The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.

 

[LadyFish]

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments that take our breath away .

 

[PW2]

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Mark Twain has tons of them. One of my personal favorites of his:

"Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry"

 

[LadyFish]

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My horns keep my halo on straight.

 

[bekosh]

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Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.