“If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty,”
This is directed at some of the STR board members..... A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. Henry Ward Beecher
"rust, that was dumb. thats why im up here and your back there" -fire aparatus engineer Silva (refering to my seating position in the engine and the 4th grade joke i had just told) “Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.” - Chief Edward Croker Let no man's ghost return to say his training let him down. -unknown
"Have you ever had sex with a man--even once?"...red cross question for giving blood (makes me laugh every time)
how about having a background investigator (deputy sheriff) ask you if you've had sex with animals? hard to keep a straight face on that one :lol: a good one is "just because you're hung like a donkey does'nt mean you have to do porn"
The less you know, the more you believe. -- Bono (duke777) "the more you know, the more you can achieve." maestro doug "they say our love won't pay the rent."--s. bono "Rugby players eat their young."--various
GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796 "However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion." GEORGE WASHINGTON, Farewell Address, Sep. 17, 1796 "To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones."
Don't know if it's been posted yet, but I really like this one: "Do or do not; there is no try." --Yoda
Look I understand too little too late I realize there are things you say and do You can never take back But what would you be if you didn't even try You have to try So after a lot of thought I'd like to reconsider Please If it's not too late Make it a...cheeseburger--l. lovett
Those who apply themselves too closely to little things often become incapable of great things. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million. If you gotta ask you will never know. - The rugrats cartoon.
this one seems apropos today: "I've temporarily lost the ability to deal rationally with my disconcerted, precarious, emotional situation."--t. waits
some of my favorites: fun: "I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." - Frank Sinatra "There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore looking like an idiot"- Steven Wright "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?" - Stephen Wright "I filled out an application that said, "In Case Of Emergency Notify ________". I wrote "Doctor"... What's my MOTHER going to do?" - Stephen Wright "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." - Juan Ramon Jimenez totally serial: "What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens." - Thaddeus Golas "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." - Albert Einstein "The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light." - Carl Sagan, From "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space" "To fly, we have to have resistance." - Maya Lin "I said empty your mind, be formless, shapeless, like water. Now, you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put water into a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend." - Bruce Lee
"Less is More." mies van der rohe "Form follows function." Luis Sillivan "Everybody has baggage it's just a matter of it matching." not sure where that one came from "Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me twice; shame on me." not sure on that one either but I like.
Rugby wisdom - "When in doubt, ruck." A personal favorite of mine: "One man with courage is a majority."
