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Thought for the day - March 11, 2000

10 Mar 00 - 11:51 PM (#193329)
Subject: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: katlaughing

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."

10 Mar 00 - 11:55 PM (#193331)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: Amos

Sweet wisdom from an old salt...

10 Mar 00 - 11:59 PM (#193335)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: catspaw49

"Sage" advice. Very nice kat.

Spaw

11 Mar 00 - 12:53 AM (#193350)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: Dave (the ancient mariner)

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)

11 Mar 00 - 07:39 PM (#193586)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: tar_heel

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

11 Mar 00 - 07:58 PM (#193593)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: McGrath of Harlow

"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."

11 Mar 00 - 11:44 PM (#193648)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: katlaughing

Beautiful, Kevin. Thank you...kat

12 Mar 00 - 12:31 AM (#193670)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: wysiwyg

Amen to all.

12 Mar 00 - 06:24 PM (#193972)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: Irish sergeant

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)

12 Mar 00 - 07:05 PM (#193992)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: katlaughing

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*

12 Mar 00 - 07:17 PM (#193996)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: McGrath of Harlow

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

Best wishes!

12 Mar 00 - 07:24 PM (#193998)
Subject: RE: Thought for the day - March 11, 2000
From: katlaughing

T'anks!