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haywoodu 07-06-2010 02:31 AM

Doug Larson
 
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. - Doug Larson

uncle phil 07-07-2010 02:15 AM

Leroy Robert Paige - July 7, 1906

“Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.”

haywoodu 07-07-2010 04:38 AM

James Dean quote
 
“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”

uncle phil 07-07-2010 05:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by haywoodu (Post 2803803)
“Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.”

haywood, look at the OP...

uncle phil 07-08-2010 02:22 AM

John D. Rockefeller - July 8, 1839

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.”

uncle phil 07-09-2010 02:09 AM

Lee Hazlewood - July 9, 1929

"I think for writers who write that kind of stuff, they want to make changes. Look at Kris Kristofferson and Dylan. I mean, whole generations come along liking that stuff and that's great."

uncle phil 07-10-2010 02:56 AM

Nikola Tesla - July 10, 1856

“The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.”

uncle phil 07-11-2010 02:12 AM

Thomas Bowdler - July 11, 1754

“Those expressions are omitted which can not with propriety be read aloud in the family.”

uncle phil 07-12-2010 02:10 AM

Milton Berle - July 12, 1908

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.”

uncle phil 07-13-2010 02:35 AM

Edward J. Flanagan - July 1, 1886

"There's one thing I know, I really know. And that is that there's no such thing in the world as a bad boy, I'm sure of that."

floe206 07-13-2010 09:33 PM

"My past is history, and my future is a mystery" Mike Tyson


"I do not know what weapons will be fought with in World War 3, but I am certain that World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

uncle phil 07-14-2010 02:16 AM

Emmeline Pankhurst - July 14, 1858

“Men make the moral code and they expect women to accept it”

uncle phil 07-15-2010 02:27 AM

Clement Clarke Moore - July 15, 1779

"He had a broad face and a little round belly, that shook, when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly."

uncle phil 07-16-2010 02:18 AM

Mary Baker Eddy - July 16, 1821

“To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living.”

uncle phil 07-17-2010 02:10 AM

John Astor - July 17, 1763

"A man who has a million dollars is as well off as if he were rich."

uncle phil 07-18-2010 04:12 AM

Chill Theodore Wills - July 18, 1902

"I want every man on the force to try his best, his level best, to try to avoid arresting anyone. I know that this is going to take great will power but try."

uncle phil 07-19-2010 02:07 AM

Samuel Colt - July 19, 1814

“Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.”

uncle phil 07-20-2010 02:13 AM

Theda Bara - July 20, 1890

“The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of vampire instinct in every woman.”

uncle phil 07-21-2010 02:11 AM

Marshall McLuhan - July 21, 1911

“We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.”

uncle phil 07-22-2010 02:13 AM

Gregor Mendel - July 22, 1822

“My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification; and I am convinced that it will not be long before the whole world acknowledges the results of my work.”

uncle phil 07-23-2010 02:07 AM

Karl Menninger - July 23, 1893

“What's done to children, they will do to society.”

uncle phil 07-24-2010 02:01 AM

Amelia Earhart - July 24, 1898

“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.”

uncle phil 07-25-2010 04:23 AM

Thomas Eakins - July 25, 1844

“The big artist keeps an eye on nature and steals her tools.”

uncle phil 07-26-2010 02:10 AM

George Catlin - July 26, 1796

“Thank God, it is over, that I have seen it and am able to tell it to the world.”

uncle phil 07-27-2010 02:32 AM

Charlotte Corday - July 27, 1768

"On ne meurt qu’une fois et c’est pour si longtemps !"

uncle phil 07-28-2010 02:11 AM

Beatrix Potter - July 28, 1866

“Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.”

uncle phil 07-29-2010 02:34 AM

Benito Mussolini - July 29, 1883

“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”

uncle phil 07-30-2010 02:29 AM

Thornstein Velben - July 30, 1857

“The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength; and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.”

uncle phil 07-31-2010 03:14 AM

Milton Friedman - July 31, 1912

“If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.”

uncle phil 08-01-2010 04:29 AM

Ramblin' Jack Elliot - August 1, 1931

"I've heard a lot of wonderful stories about myself, enviable — I wish I could've done it."

uncle phil 08-02-2010 02:19 AM

Myrna Loy - August 2, 1905

“I think that carrying on a life that is meant to be private in public is a breach of taste, common sense, and mental hygiene.”

uncle phil 08-03-2010 03:05 AM

Ernie Pyle - August 3, 1900

“If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone."

uncle phil 08-04-2010 02:28 AM

John Riggins - August 4, 1949

“Come on, Sandy, baby, loosen up. You're too tight.”

uncle phil 08-05-2010 02:33 AM

Conrad Aiken - August 5, 1889

“Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; all that was once so beautiful is dead.”

uncle phil 08-06-2010 02:55 AM

Alfred Lord Tennyson - August 6, 1809

“Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die.”

uncle phil 08-07-2010 03:36 AM

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle MacLeod - August 7, 1876

“I am a woman who enjoys herself very much; sometimes I lose, sometimes I win.”

uncle phil 08-08-2010 03:55 AM

Sylvia Sidney - August 8, 1910

"I'd be the girl of the gangster...then the sister who was bringing up the gangster...then the mother of the gangster...and they always had me ironing somebody`s shirt."

uncle phil 08-09-2010 02:15 AM

Izaac Walton - August 9, 1593

“No man can lose what he never had.”

uncle phil 08-10-2010 02:32 AM

Claus Von Bulow - August 10, 1926

Claus von Bülow: Oh, I've been meaning to mention. Our understanding about...my extracurricular activities...

Sunny von Bülow: Mmm?

Claus von Bülow: I've been involved with someone who...falls outside the parameters of our agreement.

Lindy 08-10-2010 08:37 AM

Herbert Hoover (31st President of the United States) August 10, 1874

"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt."

uncle phil 08-11-2010 03:00 AM

Robert Ingersoll - August 11, 1833

“Tolerance is giving to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.”

uncle phil 08-12-2010 01:51 AM

John Derek - August 12, 1926

“Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse.”

Lindy 08-14-2010 03:15 PM

Fidel Castro - August 13, 1927

"I believe that all of us ought to retire relatively young."
Playboy Magazine interview. January, 1967 Issue.
:rolleyes:

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Ernest Thayer - August 14, 1863

"But there is no joy in Mudville..."

uncle phil 08-17-2010 02:47 AM

Mae West - August 17, 1893

“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.”

Jetée 08-17-2010 03:51 PM

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uncle phil 08-18-2010 02:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by warrrreagl (Post 2698434)
My vision for this thread is to post a quote every day from a famous person on their birthday.

Merriwether Lewis - August 18, 1774

"On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving the new territory."

uncle phil 08-19-2010 01:51 AM

Bernard Baruch - August 19, 1870

“To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am.”

uncle phil 08-20-2010 02:26 AM

Bernardo O'Higgins Riquelme - August 20, 1778

"Lads! Live with honor, or die with glory! He who is brave, follow me!"

uncle phil 08-21-2010 03:06 AM

Aubrey Beardsley - August 21, 1872

“In the present age, alas! our pens are ravished by unlettered authors and unmannered critics, that make a havoc rather than a building, a wilderness rather than a garden. But, a lack! what boots it to drop tears upon the preterit?”

uncle phil 08-22-2010 01:33 AM

Ray Bradbury - August 22, 1920

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

uncle phil 08-23-2010 02:56 AM

Edgar Lee Masters - August 23, 1869

“How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?”

uncle phil 08-24-2010 02:02 AM

Jose Luis Borges - August 24, 1899

“Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.”

uncle phil 08-25-2010 01:41 AM

Allen Pinkerton - August 25, 1819

"Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin."

uncle phil 08-26-2010 02:38 AM

Lee Deforest - August 26, 1873

“You have debased my child. You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence, a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.”

uncle phil 08-27-2010 02:24 AM

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel - August 27, 1770

“What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it”

uncle phil 08-28-2010 04:06 AM

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe - August 28, 1749

“We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.”

uncle phil 08-29-2010 02:28 AM

John Locke - August 29, 1632

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.”

uncle phil 08-30-2010 02:30 AM

Maria Montessori - August 30, 1870

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist."”

Lindy 08-30-2010 12:57 PM

Warren Buffett -- August 30, 1930

"Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."

uncle phil 08-31-2010 01:54 AM

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus - August 31, 0012

“A great book is like great evil.”

uncle phil 09-01-2010 02:06 AM

Lydia Sigourney - September 1, 1791

“In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.”

uncle phil 09-02-2010 02:29 AM

Christa McAuliffe - September 2, 1948

“I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.”

uncle phil 09-03-2010 02:21 AM

Ferdinand Porcshe - September 3, 1875

"If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself."

uncle phil 09-04-2010 02:41 AM

Anton Bruckner - September 4, 1824

"They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?"

uncle phil 09-05-2010 04:18 AM

Jesse James - September 5, 1847

"I knew, however, that the next morning after the fight I would have to get away, and I did just in time, for a full company came early to look for me and were furious because I had escaped them."

uncle phil 09-06-2010 02:17 AM

Jane Addams - September 6, 1860

“America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live.”

uncle phil 09-07-2010 01:45 AM

Taylor Caldwell - September 7, 1900

“Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.”

uncle phil 09-08-2010 02:39 AM

Virginia Patterson Hensley - September 8, 1932

“Here's to those who wish us well and those who don't can go to hell."

uncle phil 09-09-2010 02:19 AM

Joe Thiesmann - September 9, 1949

“It was pow-pow, like two muzzled gunshots. That was my leg breaking.”

uncle phil 09-10-2010 01:58 AM

Arthur H. Compton - September 10, 1892

"Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence."

uncle phil 09-11-2010 02:18 AM

William Sidney Porter - Septemver 11, 1862

“If men knew how women pass the time when they are alone, they'd never marry.”

uncle phil 09-12-2010 01:59 AM

H. L. Mencken - September 12, 1880

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."

uncle phil 09-13-2010 02:34 AM

John J. Pershing - September 13, 1860

“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.”

uncle phil 09-14-2010 02:39 AM

Constance Baker Motley - September 14, 1921

"In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease."

sweet release 09-14-2010 08:41 AM

what a great idea for a thread.

really motivational

uncle phil 09-15-2010 02:18 AM

Robert Benchley - September 15, 1889

“A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.”

uncle phil 09-16-2010 03:09 AM

Louis XIV - September 16, 1638

“I am the state.”

uncle phil 09-17-2010 02:06 AM

Hiram King Williams - September 17, 1923

“You got to have smelt a lot of mule manure before you can sing like a hillbilly.”

uncle phil 09-18-2010 03:36 AM

Greta Garbo - September 18, 1905

“Life would be so wonderful if we only knew what to do with it.”

uncle phil 09-19-2010 02:03 AM

Frances Farmer - September 19, 1910

“Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam.”

uncle phil 09-20-2010 01:50 AM

Upton Sinclair - September 20, 1878

“If is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

uncle phil 09-21-2010 02:47 AM

Herbert George Wells - September 21, 1866

"If we don't end war, war will end us.”

uncle phil 09-22-2010 02:00 AM

John Houseman - September 22, 1902

“Corporate society takes care of everything. All it asks of anyone - all it has ever asked of anyone ever - is not to interfere with management decisions.”

uncle phil 09-23-2010 02:38 AM

Walter Lippmann - September 23, 1889

“He has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.”

uncle phil 09-24-2010 01:53 AM

John Marshall - September 24, 1755

“To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well.”

uncle phil 09-25-2010 02:20 AM

Phil Rizzuto - September 25, 1918

“I like radio better than television because if you make a mistake on radio, they don't know. You can make up anything on the radio.”

uncle phil 09-26-2010 03:38 AM

John Chapman - September 26, 1774

"I could not enjoy myself better anywhere-I can lay on my back, look up at the stars and it seems almost as though I can see the angels praising God, for he has made all things for good."

uncle phil 09-27-2010 02:06 AM

Arthur Penn - September 27, 1922

"Life is like nothing I've ever seen."

uncle phil 09-28-2010 03:12 AM

Confucius - September 28, 551BC

“What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.”

uncle phil 09-29-2010 02:08 AM

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - September 29, 1547

“Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within.”

uncle phil 09-30-2010 03:07 AM

Truman Streckfus Persons - September 30, 1924

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”

uncle phil 10-01-2010 02:41 AM

James Earl Carter - October 1, 1924

“If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.”

uncle phil 10-01-2010 10:30 PM

Julius Henry Marx - October 2, 1890

“I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.”

uncle phil 10-03-2010 03:56 AM

Thomas Wolfe - October 3, 1900

“A cult is a religion with no political power.”

uncle phil 10-04-2010 02:13 AM

Damon Runyon - October 4, 1884

“The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.”

uncle phil 10-05-2010 02:24 AM

Ray Kroc - October 5, 1902

“Its easy to have principles when you're rich. The important thing is to have principles when you're poor.”

uncle phil 10-06-2010 02:53 AM

Jenny Lind - October 6, 1820

"My voice is still the same, and this makes me beside myself with Joy! Oh, mon Dieu, when I think what I might be able to do with it!"

uncle phil 10-07-2010 02:29 AM

Oliver North - October 7, 1943

“I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.”

uncle phil 10-08-2010 02:30 AM

Eddie Rickenbacker - October 8, 1890

“Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.”

uncle phil 10-09-2010 02:37 AM

Aimee Semple McPherson - October 9, 1890

“You have no business being sick - every one of you should get well and get up and go to work, huh? Get up and go to work and earn some money and help send the gospel out! Amen!”


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