Thought for the day - March 11, 2000

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Mar 00 - 07:24 PM

T'anks!

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From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 12 Mar 00 - 07:17 PM

Twety years -that's a China Anniversary. Not to be confused with a China Syndrome.

Best wishes!

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 12 Mar 00 - 07:05 PM

Thanks, Neil, that's what I was thinking, yesterday, as Rog and I marked our first twenty years together, I had hope for another twenty, IF I could learn to follow old Bill's advice!*BG*

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: Irish sergeant
Date: 12 Mar 00 - 06:24 PM

Kat and all; Well spoken and none truer! Bravo and my hat to "Old Bill" May we all learn these sentiments and live by them without first going through the brutal and stupid phases that plague mankind. Neil (Irish sergeant)

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: wysiwyg
Date: 12 Mar 00 - 12:31 AM

Amen to all.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 11:44 PM

Beautiful, Kevin. Thank you...kat

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 07:58 PM

"Live quietly, talk gently, act wisely"

That's a good recipe for a good person, but not the only one - well, you wouldn't just want one sort of person, would you.

Here is another:

"O Cormac, grandson of Conn." said Carbery, "what were your habits when you were a lad?"

"Not hard to tell," said Cormac.

I was a listener in woods,
I was a gazer at stars,
I was blind where secrets were concerned,
I was silent in a wilderness,
I was talkative among many,
I was mild in the mead-hall,
I was stern in battle,
I was gentle towards allies,
I was a physician of the sick,
I was weak towards the feeble,
I was strong towards the powerful,
I was not close lest I be burdonsome,
I was not arrogant though I was wise,
I was not given to promising things though I was strong,
I was not venturesome though I was swift,
I did not deride the old though I was young,
I was not boastful though I was a good fighter,
I would not speak about anyone in their absence,
I wopuld not reproach, but I would praise,
I would not ask, but I would give."

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: tar_heel
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 07:39 PM

i've been early retired,9 months today!!!!!and i ain't pregnant yet!!!!

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)
Date: 11 Mar 00 - 12:53 AM

Some people sow their wild oats all week and go to church on Sunday to pray for crop failure...At least I can honestly say my mistakes are human ones without issue... Yours,(very hung over) Aye. Dave (the ancient idiot)

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 11:59 PM

"Sage" advice. Very nice kat.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: Amos
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 11:55 PM

Sweet wisdom from an old salt...

Subject: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 10 Mar 00 - 11:51 PM

Bill, an old cowboy whose funeral was this week in Buffalo, Wyoming was not known as a church-goer. He had served in WWII, the Korean War and Vietnam War. He always came back to the ranch, becoming recognised, not only as a salt-of-the-earth kind of friend and neighbour, but also as an expert fixing up old time wagons for a local museum. He had this planned and printed in his funeral booklet:

I ask "that we live quietly, talk gently, act wisely....Help us to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, rise up through the common."