Things Learned Along the Way

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  • blondie
    blondie

    The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

    Oscar Wilde

    A word to the wise ain't necessary, it's the stupid ones who need the advice.

    Bill Cosby

    have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

    Harry S Truman

  • blondie
  • blondie
    blondie

    In honor of ozziepost, this bears repeating.

    Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.--Elbert Hubbard (1859-1915)

  • blondie
    blondie

    The test of courage comes when we are in the minority; the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
    Ralph W. Sockman
  • Badger
    Badger

    A Fool and his money are fun to go out with.

  • blondie
    blondie

    THE PAST
    This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.
    Agathon (448 BC - 400 BC), from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

    Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
    George Santayana (1863 - 1952), The Life of Reason, Volume 1, 1905

    Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807 - 1882)

    IThe farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
    Isabelle Eberhardt

    We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
    Lyndon B. Johnson (1908 - 1973), December 13, 1963

    I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.
    W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), The Moon and Sixpence

    Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
    William Ralph Inge (1860 - 1954)
  • Dan-O
    Dan-O

    If your Jello has goldfish in it, you may have used the wrong bowl.

  • Left_Field
    Left_Field

    -- The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed Linux.
    -- Welcome to Hell. Here's your copy of Windows.
    -- ... because computers are happiest when we avoid describing them in anthropomorphic terms.
    -- Stay the patient course. Of little worth is your ire; the network is down.
    -- The Tao that is seen is not the true Tao, until you bring fresh toner.
    -- The Web site you seek cannot be located. But endless others exist.

    -- Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as Gods. Cats have never forgotten this.

    -- In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

    -- Today's payslip has more deductions than a Sherlock Holmes novel.

    -- Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

    I thank you... N.

  • onacruse
    onacruse

    "How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people; first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."

    Einstein (The World As I See It)

  • gumby
    gumby

    Get yer ass to bed Craig.....ya hear me?!!!

    Gumby

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