Home is not where you live but where they understand you. ~ Christian Morgenstern

This post has been edited at member's request.La Juliette,

We will either find a way, or make one.~Hannibal

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard. Steven Wright

"I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain." - Carol Leifer

"Don't let anybody walk trough your mind with dirty feet. "
~Ghandi

In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth. V. S. Pritchett

"I can trace my lineage back to King Lear's fool so it is genetic."
Unknown!

"Being is not to be what it is and to be what it is not"
~ G.W.F. Hegel

'On her way home she usually bought a slice of honey-cake at the baker's. It was her Sunday treat. Sometimes there was an almond in her slice, sometimes not. It made a great difference. If there was an almond it was like carrying home a tiny present - a surprise - something that might very well not have been there. She hurried on the almond Sundays and struck the match for the kettle in quite a dashing way.'

Miss Brill, Katherine Mansfield

"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves."

Lane Kirkland

Since this is the mudpit....


The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful. E. E. Cummings

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have. Steven Wright

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

Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.
--Jack Handy

La Juliette, your last two are from 1.) my favorite poet, and 2.) one of the best guys for funny quotes... you're now my hero for the night, hehe

Now, for a quote: "I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others." -Marcus Aurelius

Somehow I find that appropriate for forums such as these. ;-)

- sage

Well in that case......


"When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges."~ Jack Handy

"Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." –Nietzsche

- sage

Inside each of us are powers so strong, treasures so rich, possibilities so endless,
that to command them all to action would change the history of the world.

The above quotation has long been one of my favorite, but I've never been able to find the name of the author. I have seen it in compilations by H. Jackson Brown and others, but never attributed to anyone specific.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.~ Charles Dickens

"Solve the problem yourself or accept a fate you may not like...from this perspective, the ethic of personal responsibility gains appeal."

Noel M. Tichy