Quote of the Day - Fun Thread

[DeLarla 22]

Here's a place to add your favorite quotes. Here's mine for the day:

My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can.

That's almost $21.00 in dog money.

- Joe Weinstein

[DeLarla 22]

If you think dogs can't count, try putting three dog biscuits in your pocket and then

giving Fido only two of them.

- Phil Pastoret

[the best me 6]

Just some cute ones from an e-mail. This list included the quote about the internet on my sig...enjoy!

Life is sexually transmitted.

Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.

Men have two emotions: Hungry and Horny. If you don't see him excited, make him a sandwich!

Some people are like Slinkies. Not really good for anything, but you can't help but smile when you see one tumble down the stairs.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing.

All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism.

Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and substantial tax cut saves you thirty cents?

In the 60's, people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal.

Many terrorists come to America legally and hang around on expired Visas (some for as long as 10-15 years). At Blockbuster you're two days late with a video rental and those people are all over you. I think we should put Blockbuster in charge of US Immigration.

[vinesqueen 2]

These aren't so much quotes as the prinicples I live by...

god never told you to be stupid. -old Jewish proverb

Never borrow trouble -old English proverb

Milk is not a finger food--Family Circus (I'm going to paint "Milch ist nicht eine Fingernahrung" accross one of the beams in my kitchen.)

oh.. I have a million more...

[Mariposa Bella 3]

Look at me, look at me.

[Alexandra 55]

There are literally an endless number of gems floating around out there. From one minute to the next I have a new favorite. I just saw these a few minutes ago:

A friend knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you forget the words.

Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.

-- Ruth Hurmence Green

[Zoe 6]

(I'm going to paint "Milch ist nicht eine Fingernahrung" accross one of the beams in my kitchen.)

Everything sounds more serious in German!

I love quotations and have a constantly changing group of favorites. Here's one that's cited in so many places that it's become a cliché, but it's still worth repeating:

"If I am not for myself, then who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?" -- Rabbi Hillel

LBJ, when asked why he didn't fire FBI director J. Edgar Hoover: "I'd rather have him on the inside pissing out than on the outside pissing in."

[vinesqueen 2]

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. -- Mae West

[Zoe 6]

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. -- Oscar Wilde (from The Picture of Dorian Gray)

[dylansmom 27]

Here's one of my favorites:

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."-Aristotle

[dylansmom 27]

Here are a few more that I found today:

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved."

-Helen Keller

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

-Thomas Paine

[vinesqueen 2]

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne

Just going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

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I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Mark Twain.

[paula 4]

Happiness isnt having everything you want;

Happiness is when you want everything you already have.

[Madeline's mom 0]

"Accept the challenges so you can feel the exhilaration of victory" --General G. Patton

[Heather Joy 0]

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. A. A. Milne

Gee,isnt that just the story of my life!!!!LOL