The Sirscrapalot quote thread..

[Sirscrapalot]

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. - Johnny Carson



Sirscrapalot - When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman

[hobo finds]

“WHILE YOU WERE DOWN UNDER THE TABLE SEARCHING FOR TABLE SCRAPS THE FEAST WAS ON THE TABLE.”

Tracy Brown

[hobo finds]

[hobo finds]

The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
Henry David Thoreau

[Lalla666]

To be old and wise you must first be young and stupid

[Sirscrapalot]

Been awhile...do forgive me. An yes, I enjoyed my vacation an no, there is no beer left on my sandbar.

On to the quotes..!

Today's quotes are from Maya Angelou, an recently passed away.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation.

Nothing will work unless you do.

Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Maya Angelou, 1928 - 2014 Poet, activist, author, an more.

Sirscrapalot - I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

[Sirscrapalot]

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Golda Meir

Sirscrapalot - Off for a taco.

[spinroch]

Hey, SS! Your PM mailbox is full!
In any event, the forum isn't the same when you are away!

[Sirscrapalot]

It is? Well hell..I should empty it! I can't take the chance an miss a PM from the awesome whiskey drinking Spin!

Sirscrapalot - Thanks for the heads up Spin a rooni!

[Sirscrapalot]

Emptied now, feel free to send in all your love, hate, and adult beverages again.

Sirscrapalot - Spin for Vice President!

[Sirscrapalot]

Been used before, an till it happens I'll keep using it.

Jus' saying..

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one. - John Lennon

Sirscrapalot - Give peace a chance...seriously.

[NHscrapman]

"NH Was The First"
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York Scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years and came to the conclusion, that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago.

Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet, and shortly after, a story in the LA Times read: "California archaeologists, finding of 200 year old copper wire, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than the New Yorkers"

One week later. A local newspaper in New Hampshire reported the following: "After digging as deep as 30 feet in his pasture near Milton, New Hampshire, Bubba, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Bubba has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, New Hampshire had already gone wireless".

Just makes a person proud to live in New Hampshire, don't it?

[Sirscrapalot]

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it. - Ralph Marston

Sirscrapalot - Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work. - Ann Rule

[BroJer]

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -Plato

[Sirscrapalot]

**** it's hot. - Me, this week, while having electrical work done at the house.

Sirscrapalot - **** it's cold! - Me, this week, jumping into ocean.

[Sirscrapalot]

I guess I should put a real quote..

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. - William Butler Yeats

Sirscrapalot - I'm a man with a duck an I'm not afraid to use it! - No idea.

[Sirscrapalot]

Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature. - Marilyn Monroe

Sex education may be a good idea in the schools, but I don't believe the kids should be given homework. - Bill Cosby

I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds. - Joan Rivers

Sirscrapalot - Enjoy your weekend!

[Sirscrapalot]

I like to read some of you know this...so..today I've pulled quotes from some poets I can dig. I know..me an poetry..mind boggling.

Enjoy.

Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light. - Dylan Thomas

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. - Dylan Thomas

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity. - Dylan Thomas

Sirscrapalot - A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing. - Maya Angelou, 1928 - 2014.

[Sirscrapalot]

Ha ha! I left out some...an its my thread so I'll double post away!

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? - T.S. Eliot

I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go. - Langston Hughes

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it. - Langston Hughes

I believe that if you don't want to do anything, then sit there and don't do it, but don't expect people to hand you a corn beef sandwich and wash your socks for you and unzip your fly for you. - Shel Silverstein

Tell me I'm clever, Tell me I'm kind, Tell me I'm talented, Tell me I'm cute, Tell me I'm sensitive, Graceful and wise, Tell me I'm perfect - But tell me the truth. - Shel Siverstein

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are. - E.E. Cummings

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man. - E.E. Cummings

Sirscrapalot - The most wasted of all days is one without laughter. - E.E. Cummings

[NHscrapman]

An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life:
A fight is going on inside me, he said to the boy. It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. This same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too.
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather,Which wolf will win?
The old Cherokee simply replied, The one you feed.



We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.