A Quote A Day *unless I forget...

[Lazarus Short]

Always remember, there is no city in the world that has erected a statue to a critic. – Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

 

[Lazarus Short]

The purpose of school is to train us to be good hewers of wood and drawers of water. -Laz Short

 

[orange]

When you deal with drawers of water, a diaper is what you seek.

 

[Lazarus Short]

It seems a law of history for successful movements and empires to resist further change after the needs that had motivated them into promoting change had been satisfied.

-James P. Hogan, from ​Giants' Star

 

[orange]

That's not a knife.

THIS is a knife!

--Paul Hogan, Crocodile Dundee

 

[Lazarus Short]

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
-Andre Maurois

No doubt this was written before 8-track tapes and atomic bombs.
-Laz Short

 

[Northwinds]

You better cut that pizza into four pieces since I am not hungry enough to eat six

Yogi Berra

 

[Fishoz]

"This ain't no funeral"

"Let's make this a joyous occasion"

Tom Watson 2015 after the Open


What a class act!

 

[Lazarus Short]

You cannot reach into "in" - your arms are too long.
- Ken Nordine

 

[Web Police]

Never post what you may later want to delete.

 

[orange]

It's not like I'm the leper messiah for trying to save that site. Touché

C'mon, John. I asked to close that thread and I don't want it reopened in another one. PM if you absolutely have to.

Gracias.

 

[orange]

And I thanked you kindly for the batteries in the computer thread.

 

[orange]

We owe to the Middle Ages the two worst inventions of humanity - romantic love and gunpowder.
-Andre Maurois

No doubt this was written before 8-track tapes and atomic bombs.
-Laz Short

I used to listen to Atomic on an 8-track, and ABBA, and the Cars. I never owned Bang Bang (He Shot Me Down) however.

 

[orange]

You realize that you are getting older when the pretty girls on the magazines at the drugstore rack don't seem to faze you, you see Oprah.

 

[Fast Forward]

Fighting and F---ing are similar if you ain't good at either both are over pretty quick,,
Fast Forward

 

[Lazarus Short]

Until we realise that we can only be where we go, we will only be where we are.
- unknown

 

[Lazarus Short]

Damn the particle, but there is salvation for the aggregate. A gust of wind is wild and free, but there are handcuffs on the storm.

-Charles Fort

 

[laatsch55]

"If you fart in a storm, it only stinks downwind"...

 

[Fast Forward]

If I knew I was going to live this long I would have taken better care of my self,,,
The Mick

 

[Northwinds]

Never swallow a Dorito whole, dry triangles do not slide well