Now they show you how detergents take out bloodstains, a pretty violent image there. I think if you've got a T-shirt with a bloodstain all over it, maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem. Maybe you should get rid of the body before you do the wash!
Jerry Seinfeld
“Those big-shot writers could never dig the fact that there are more salted peanuts consumed than caviar”
Mickey Spillane
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
~ John F. Kennedy
@msolga,
If in the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins---not through strength but be perseverance.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason
Jerry Seinfeld
2 in every one people are schitzophrenic!
Shaun Allen
“It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world that they cannot all be punished. But if innocence itself is brought to the bar and condemned, perhaps to die, then the citizen will say, "whether I do good or whether I do evil is immaterial, for innocence itself is no protection," and if such an idea as that were to take hold in the mind of the citizen that would be the end of security whatsoever.”
― John Adams
@edgarblythe,
People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.
Elisabeth Kubgler-Ross
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.
~ Muhammad Ali -
February 1964, ahead of his first title fight and first bout against Sonny Liston.
(Happy 70th birthday, MA!)
Muhammad Ali in words and pictures:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-17/muhammad-ali-in-words-and-pictures/3778612
@msolga,
In 1999 he was voted BBC Sports Personality of the century.
“I once knew a chap who had a system of just hanging the baby on the clothes line to dry and he was greatly admired by his fellow citizens for having discovered a wonderful innovation on changing a diaper.”
Damon Runyon
@edgarblythe,
What chance gathers she easily scatters. A great person attracts great people and knows how to hold them together.
Johann von Goethe
Mitt Romney lacks this talent.
BBB
quoth the raven, nevermore.
Edgar Allan Poe
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane, he had to fly them. If he flew them, he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to, he was sane and had to. Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that Catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
P. 55 (p. 46 in Simon & Schuster 2004)
@edgarblythe,
I can of my own self do nothing
Dunno who
We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there.
Dana Gould
@edgarblythe,
When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.
Elizabeth Bowen
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look
so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been
opened for us.
~Helen Keller
We Bereaved
“Thus was the savage, stupid, entirely inappropriate and humorless American class system created. Honest and industrious citizens were called bloodsuckers if they asked to be paid a living wage. And they saw that praise was reserved for those who devised means of getting paid enormously for committing crimes against which no laws had been passed. Thus the American dream turned belly up and green, bobbed to the surface filled with gas, and went bang in the noonday sun.” - Kurt Vonnegut, 1965
