BS: Pearls of Wisdom

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Nov 10 - 10:16 AM

"Conversation: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener."

"Cute and interesting are two different things"

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: GUEST,Patmike
Date: 20 Nov 10 - 09:22 AM

You can be sure of nothing, and you can't even be sure of that.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: kendall
Date: 20 Nov 10 - 07:13 AM

There are three kinds of people;
Those who make things happen,
Those who let things happen,
And, those who wonder what the hell happened.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Nov 10 - 01:47 PM

"I long for the days before all this nostalgia."

"When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant, is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant."

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Dharmabum
Date: 19 Nov 10 - 01:15 PM

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 19 Nov 10 - 06:52 AM

I really don't like history.. I reckon it's a thing of the past!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Nov 10 - 06:01 AM

HISTORY is the only thing you can be sure of having more of every day than you had the day before.

(Is that why so many people let it go to waste?)

John

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Nov 10 - 04:00 AM

Dog

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Ebbie
Date: 19 Nov 10 - 02:31 AM

eeeeeeeeeeeee!

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Nov 10 - 11:36 PM

Ebbie - I know animals like that .... they are like children with whom one is unable to exercise 'reason' thru 'conversation' - know some people like that too ....

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Ebbie
Date: 18 Nov 10 - 01:26 PM

Foolestroupe, that link is hilarious. I've bookmarked the site.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 18 Nov 10 - 07:44 AM

You can fool some people some of the time but you can't fool people all of the time.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: kendall
Date: 18 Nov 10 - 07:17 AM

Dharmabum, that is a good one! Of course, depending on the cook, you might have both.

When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 18 Nov 10 - 05:17 AM

Dogs Don't Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 07:29 PM

"I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated."   - Poul Anderson

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Dharmabum
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 07:29 PM

If the Indians had given the Pilgrims a donkey instead of a turkey,
We'd all be having a piece of ass for Thanksgiving.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 07:28 PM

"When you want to test the depths of a stream, don't use both feet. " - Chinese Proverb

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: kendall
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 07:22 PM

You can not reason a man out of a position that he didn't reason himself into.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 06:55 PM

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses. Richard Bachman

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 06:53 PM

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. Heinrich Heine

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 06:52 PM

Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Bill D
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 06:42 PM

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce today would cost $100, get a million miles to the gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.   - Winston Churchill

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Ed T
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 05:47 PM

There is no such thing as fish sticks

(They don't reproduce that way).

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: lefthanded guitar
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 05:33 PM

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: akenaton
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 01:03 PM

"When the Left pat you on the back, quickly reassess where you are and readjust, for the liberals' praise is a warning bell you must heed."

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of WisdomDer Führer's
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Nov 10 - 12:39 PM

Another from Der Führer:

"Cigarettes are the red man's revenge on the white man for gin"

One of his few intelligent utterances ~~

~M~

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 12:47 PM

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position

Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it
.
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.


It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either.

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.


Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.


All the above were by Mark Twain.






Miltary exercises and combat missions are on a par with the discipline and decisions of your average 10 year old


What luck for rulers, that men do not think.
-Adolf Hitler-

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 10:19 AM

When someone says "But the reality is…" their opinion is soon to follow.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 08:35 AM

One hot day does not a Summer make. (especially in UK)

Sometimes you have to lose a battle in order to win the war.

All that glitters is not gold.

A fool and his money is soon parted.

Wisdom comes from the mouth of babes.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 07:06 AM

"The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet." Damon Runyon

X♫❤Michael❤♫X

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 06:39 AM

Once you have spent it, it's gone.

All work and no play makes Jack/Jill a dull boy/girl.

Hard work never killed anyone.

Shit before the shovel.

Marry in haste repent at Leisure.

Too many women in a kitchen is not a good idea.

Look before you leap.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Dharmabum
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 06:18 AM

People with the widest opinions, usually have the narrowest minds.

I feel a whole lot more like I do now,than I did awhile ago.

Life is like a roll of toilet paper.
The closer you get to the end,the faster it goes.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 06:00 AM

Is it best to die with great material wealth or poor????

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 05:40 AM

Be nice to people on the way up, you might just meet them on the way back down again.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Amergin
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 05:01 AM

I gave a girl a pearl necklace once....it made her wiser....she wouldn't have much to do with me after that....does that count?

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: GUEST,Bob L
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 03:40 AM

1. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
2. All generalisations are wrong, including this one.
3. All kids are gifted, some just open their packages earlier than others.
4. All living things are really just temporary entropy anomalies.
5. All men are of the same mould, but some are mouldier than others.
6. Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
7. An apple a day keeps the doctor away: an onion a day keeps everybody away!
8. Anything asserted without evidence may also be dismissed without evidence.
9. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
10.Attractiveness is in the eye of the beholder: female warthogs find male warthogs very attractive.

Tomorrow ... 'B'! (maybe)

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 03:21 AM

Took years of googling, but I found the author! Knew it was something I heard in my youth!

"Indispensable Man"

Saxon White Kessinger

©1959

Sometime when you're feeling important;
Sometime when your ego's in bloom
Sometime when you take it for granted
You're the best qualified in the room,

Sometime when you feel that your going
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow these simple instructions
And see how they humble your soul;

Take a bucket and fill it with water,
Put your hand in it up to the wrist,
Pull it out and the hole that's remaining
Is a measure of how you'll be missed.

You can splash all you wish when you enter,
You may stir up the water galore,
But stop and you'll find that in no time
It looks quite the same as before.

The moral of this quaint example
Is do just the best that you can,
Be proud of yourself but remember,
There's no indispensable man.


"Indispensable Man" was originally published in "The Nutmegger Poetry Club under the name Saxon Uberuaga. It has also been published in "Boots" in Spring 1993, in "The Country Courier" 1996, "Rhyme Time" in Winter 2000, and in "Golden Times" in August 2003.

Saxon White Kessinger is a member (and past president) of Gem State Writers' League and a member of Idaho Writers' League. She is an award winning writer, receiving Idaho Writers' League "2003 Lifetime Achievement Award," "Writer of the Year" in 1992, 1995, and 2002 and "Poet of the Year" in 1999 and 2000 from her Idaho State Leagues. She has published various poetry offerings and many articles in various newspapers and magazines.
You can reach the author by email at [e-mail]

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: GUEST,Patsy
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 02:45 AM

It's personality that counts not looks.

Manners maketh the man (or woman).

One man's meat is another man's poison.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 02:11 AM

True wisdom begins when you hear someone who is speaking to you, about something he knows a lot about, and you listen to that person, the same way you'd want people to listen to you!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 16 Nov 10 - 02:03 AM

Time flies like an arrow... Fruit flies like a banana.

If someone wishes to fight with you... first walk a mile in his shoes.. then you'll be a mile away and he'll have no shoes.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 11:54 PM

IF you really need your junk fondled, take a flight in the USA.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Smokey.
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 11:11 PM

Idleness is the grandmother of invention.

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Ebbie
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 11:06 PM

"The only safe place to visit is one you've never heard of."

"Tea makes pee" (Ascertained just today.)

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 10:54 PM

Nietzche is Pietzche

(And, some of them are only ersatz rubbish..)

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: katlaughing
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 10:37 PM

And, some of them are pure rubbish, imo!

Kind words are the music of the world. (On a church kiosk)

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Amos
Date: 15 Nov 10 - 10:11 PM

1. People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

2. He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

3. The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

4. There are no facts, only interpretations.

5. Morality is but the herd-instinct in the individual.

6. No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.

7. Without music, life would be a mistake.

8. Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't.

9. In large states public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is usually bad.

10. The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

11. A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.

12. We often refuse to accept an idea merely because the way in which it has been expressed is unsympathetic to us.

13. No victor believes in chance.

14. Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.

15. Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

16. It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.

17. The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

18. The future influences the present just as much as the past.

19. The most common lie is that which one tells himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

20. I counsel you, my friends: Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

(All above from Frederich Nietzche)

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Aug 06 - 10:10 AM

Pie! LOL

If you've never been the lover
Of the landlady's daughter
Then you can't have another
Piece of pie.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 08:18 PM

reflection on bigamy:

"You can't have your Kate and Edith too"

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: kendall
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 07:42 PM

There is enough for everyones needs...there is NOT enough for everyones wants. (M. Ghandi) Are you listening, Halliburton, Bechtel, Wal-Mart?

Subject: RE: BS: Pearls of Wisdom
From: Bizibod
Date: 29 Aug 06 - 07:34 PM

You can't have everything......
I mean, where you gonna put it?