“These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours, and not reach any destination.”
― Rabindranath Tagore
@JTT,
JTT wrote:
Sure worked for LBJ, didn't it? He got much of America to look down on the gooks.
Then he used your money to slaughter millions. That's the kind of thing that does an American proud, knowing their tax dollars went to a worthwhile endeavor.
His quote may not have been altruistic in it's intentions but it certainly hit the mark
May the best day of your past be the worst day of your future Irish Blessing
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. ~Winston Churchill
“I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell
@blueveinedthrobber,
Have to agree there, Bear, it did hit the mark.
"The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left."
-- Jerry M.Wright
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.
Alfred Hitchcock
“Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven, where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.”
― -Eskimo Legend
When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.
Jonathan Swift
"No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“you don't love a girl because of beauty, you love her because she sings a song only you can understand" -James”
― L.J. Smith
@edgarblythe,
"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense."
--Mark Overby
“Of what a strange nature is knowledge! It clings to a mind when it has once seized on it like a lichen on a rock."
- Frankenstein p115”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
@vonny,
It is unavoidable in certain circumstances vonny. It is about your worth.
@spendius,
It's about how you value yourself, don't you think?
"There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time."
-- David Eagleman, author of SUM: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
@vonny,
Quote:It's about how you value yourself, don't you think?
I had a short period during which I thought I was God's gift to women.
When I thought it through I realised that if God had a gift for women it would be in the form of an organism which coughed up a dollar everytime the cane was applied to its bare arse.
