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lowell holmes
04-12-2021, 3:41 PM
From page 55 of Texas Bix Benders book "Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On!

"Remember, even a kick in the caboose is a step forward."

I thought you might enjoy it.

Rob Luter
04-13-2021, 7:25 AM
Truth does not mind being questioned. A lie does not like being challenged.

- Anon.

Roger Feeley
04-13-2021, 9:23 AM
I would give my left arm to be ambidextrous.

Roger Feeley
04-13-2021, 9:24 AM
All solutions, once found, are simple.

Jim Koepke
04-13-2021, 11:22 AM
Some of my favorites in no particular order:

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
– Albert Einstein

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."
- Steven Wright

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx

"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
– Conrad Hilton

When one teaches, two learn.
– Robert Half

The man who does things makes mistakes, but he doesn't make the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing.
– Benjamin Franklin

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
– Edward John Phelps

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward R. Murrow

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.
Edward R. Murrow

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
M.K. Gandhi

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
– Edward R. Murrow

jtk

Kev Williams
04-13-2021, 4:34 PM
When you find what you're looking for, it will always be at the last place you looked.

Jim Matthews
04-14-2021, 6:34 AM
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho Marx

Prashun Patel
04-14-2021, 6:52 AM
These are really wonderful, Jim. A few of these made me tear up.

Bob McBreen
04-14-2021, 10:59 AM
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing

Erik Loza
04-14-2021, 11:04 AM
"Busier than a one-armed paper hanger" always gets a chuckle out of my customers.

Erik

Kev Williams
04-14-2021, 12:00 PM
Busier than-

A blind dog in a meat locker

a cat covering poop on a hot tin roof

;)

Jim Koepke
04-14-2021, 6:39 PM
A few from the ladies of history:

Inside every older person is a younger
person -- wondering what the hell happened.
-Cora Harvey Armstrong-

A male gynecologist is like an auto
mechanic who never owned a car.
-Carrie Snow-

Old age ain't no place for sissies.
-Bette Davis-

Every time I close the door on reality
it comes in through the windows.
-Jennifer Unlimited-

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head
together and your body starts falling apart.
-Caryn Leschen-

If you can't be a good example, then you'll
just have to be a horrible warning.
-Catherine-

I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde
jokes because I know I'm not
dumb ... and I'm also not blonde.
-Dolly Parton-

If high heels were so wonderful, men
would still be wearing them.
-Sue Grafton-

I'm not going to vacuum 'til Sears
makes one you can ride on.
-Roseanne Barr-

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
-Maryon Pearson-

I am a marvelous housekeeper.
Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
-Zsa Zsa Gabor-

jtk

Frederick Skelly
04-14-2021, 6:55 PM
There is no more idealistic, righteous, and misinformed mudslinger than a university undergraduate.

Great wealth is an obligation and responsibility. Money must work for the country.”
EH Harriman

"Only those who really experienced the war will want to preserve peace with all their might."
- Hans Kahr, german who survived the russian front and post war slavery in russia

"Here you are, an admired, successful, professional actor with a long lasting marriage, two apparently healthy, resilient children, more money than you could possibly need, a beautiful home in sunny Southern California — a fairy tale life," Gorton said. "Yet you stand me before a convicted felon. And for what? For the inexplicable desire to grasp even more."
- Judge Gorton to Lauri Laughlin (Not unique to her. Applies to many people.)

Bruce Page
04-14-2021, 11:52 PM
If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base.
--Dave Barry

Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, the day before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp.
--Bob Ettinger--

"A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh."
--Conan O'Brien

"Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner."
--Lynda Montgomery

"I think that's how Chicago got started. Bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'"
--Richard Jeni--