Every man...should periodically be compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind.

-- St. John Ervine

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 27, 2001

Answers

Response to Qote of the day, part 3

Hurt People, Hurt people.

Ted McCormick,PHD. And a friend.

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), February 27, 2001.

Response to Qote of the day, part 3

What you think about when you don't have to think, shows what you really are. David O. McKay

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), February 27, 2001.

Response to Qote of the day, part 3

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." --Hemingway--

Mar.

-- Not now, not like this (AgentSmith0110@aol.com), February 27, 2001.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

-- Bertrand Russell

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), February 28, 2001.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

-- Nathaniel Branden

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 01, 2001.

"And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last."

-Marcus Aurelius

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 02, 2001.

Religion is for people who are trying to avoid hell. Spirituality is for those who have been in hell and are trying to get out.

FutureShock

-- FutureShock (gray@matter.think), March 02, 2001.

I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out.

-- Denis Diderot

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 02, 2001.

"If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason." --Jack Handey--

-- Not now, not like this (AgentSmith0110@aol.com), March 02, 2001.

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

- Rudyard Kipling

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 02, 2001.

You don't die of a broken heart, you only wish you did.

--Marilyn Peterson

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 03, 2001.

Expectations are resentments waiting to happen

FutureShock

-- FutureShock (gray@matter.think), March 03, 2001.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

-- Martin Luther King

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 04, 2001.

It is bout time you got up.

Sumer 3-2001

-- sumer (shh@aol.con), March 04, 2001.

We have met the enemy, and it is us.

--Pogo

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 05, 2001.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

--~Thomas Merton

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 05, 2001.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it.

The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

-- Thomas Sowell

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 05, 2001.

"Religion in fact is not knowledge, but a faith and aspiration; it is justified indeed both by an imprecise intuitive knowledge of large spiritual truths and by the subjective experience of souls that have risen beyond the ordinary life, but in itself it only gives us the hope and faith by which we may be induced to aspire to the intimate possession of the hidden tracts and larger realities of the Spirit. That we turn always the few distinct truths and the symbols or the particular discipline of a religion into a hard and fast dogmas, is a sign that as yet we are only infants in the spiritual knowledge and are yet far from the science of the Infinite."

--------- Sri Aurobindo

-- Rich (howe9@shentel.net), March 05, 2001.

"The New York Times is read by the people who run the country.

The Washington Post is read by the people who think they run the country.

The National Enquirer is read by the people who think Elvis is alive and running the country...."

- Robert J Woodhead

-- So (cr@t.es), March 05, 2001.

"If you shoot at the moon and miss, at least you'll still be dancing among the stars."

- Unknown

:)

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), March 05, 2001.

Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve. --Sivananda

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 06, 2001.

Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes.

-- Theodor Reik

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 06, 2001.

May today there be peace within May you trust your highest power that you are exactly where you are meant to be.... May you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith May you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been given to you.... May you be content knowing you are a child of God.... Let this presence settle into our bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing, dance and to bask in the sun. It is there for each and everyone of you.

~ St. Teresa

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 07, 2001.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadows.

-Helen Keller

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 07, 2001.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

-- John F. Kennedy

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 07, 2001.

"Hands that help are better than lips that pray,"

--Bertrand Russell

-- Tarzan the Ape Man (tarzan@swingingthroughthejunglewithouta.net), March 07, 2001.

You're not what you think you are; it's what you think, that you are.

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 07, 2001.

If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 08, 2001.

"An injury can grieve us only when remembered. The noblest revenge therefore, is to forget."

--unknown

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), March 08, 2001.

"Twenty, Twenty, Twenty-four hours to go, I wanna be sedated..."

- Joey Ramone

-- Bemused (and_amazed@you.people), March 08, 2001.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one!

-- Marcus Aurelius

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 08, 2001.

"At my signal, unleash hell."

- Maximus

-- Bemused (and_amazed@you.people), March 08, 2001.

"Dadgummit!!"

- Bobby Bowden -

Deano

-- Deano (deano@luvthebeach.com), March 08, 2001.

Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend, and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

-- Groucho Marx

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 09, 2001.

What we do in life, echoes in eternity.

-Maximus

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 09, 2001.

"it's two O'Clock. It's Friday. Only a few more hours............"

FutureShock

-- (gray@matter.think), March 09, 2001.

The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

-- Erwin N. Griswold

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 10, 2001.

"This year is gonna be the most fun-filled old-fashioned family Christmas ever."

-- Clark Griswold

-- (cin@cin.cin), March 10, 2001.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

--Thomas A. Edison

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 11, 2001.

If you wish to know the Divine, feel the wind on your face and the warm sun on your hand -- Buddha

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 11, 2001.

I know what it is to doubt and question. And I suspect that every Christian who takes the time to think seriously about his faith, does so too. - Clark H. Pinnock

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 12, 2001.

It is in these highest moments of indescribable bliss that a man may know what he truly is and how grand is the relationship that he bears to the Infinite Being.

--Paul Brunton, (Vol 14, Inspiration and the Overself)

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 12, 2001.

"Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau".

Dr. Irving Fisher (Professor of Economics, Yale University). October 17th, 1929.

-- J (Y2J@home.comm), March 12, 2001.

One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

-- Thomas Sowell

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 12, 2001.

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Author Unknown

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 13, 2001.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 13, 2001.

"It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!"

-~Abraham Lincoln

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), March 13, 2001.

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.

- Jack Handey

-- Bemused (and_amazed@you.people), March 13, 2001.

I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.

- Jack Handey

-- Bemused (and_amazed@you.people), March 13, 2001.

A great man is he who has not lost the heart of a child.

-- Mencius

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 14, 2001.

...Then it was as if I suddenly saw the secret beauty of their hearts, the depths where neither sin nor desire can reach, the person that each one is in God’s eyes. If only they could see themselves as they really are. If only we could see each other that way there would be no reason for war, for hatred, for cruelty… we would fall down and worship each other.

--Thomas Merton

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 15, 2001.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie.

-- Dorothy Parker

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 15, 2001.

What you know you can't explain, but you feel it.

-Morpheus

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 15, 2001.

Keep on going and the chances are that you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

-Charles F. Kettering

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 16, 2001.

The ground of liberty is to be gained by inches, and we must be contented to secure what we can get from time to time and eternally press forward for what is yet to get. It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

-- Thomas Jefferson

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 16, 2001.

At CNN, Ted Turner encountered a young woman with a smear of ash on her forehead as part of her Ash Wednesday observances. Said Ted:

"I was looking at this woman, and I was trying to figure out what was on her forehead. At first I thought you were in the (Seattle earthquake). What are you? A bunch of Jesus freaks? You ought to be working for Fox."

-- (Paracelsus@Pb.Au), March 17, 2001.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

--Marcus Aurelius

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 17, 2001.

The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations.

-- David Friedman

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 17, 2001.

All armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

-- Niccolo Machiavelli

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 18, 2001.

"You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap"

--Dolly Parton

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), March 18, 2001.

One-armed prophets read alot of magazines

--Mack E. Avelli

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), March 18, 2001.

"I want an Internet. Can I have one of those?" -- Spice Girl Mel B., aka Scary Spice, pointing to a monitor during an AOL press conference

-- Lars (larsguy@yahoo.com), March 18, 2001.

Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of spirit.

--Paramahansa Yogananda

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 19, 2001.

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

-- Benjamin Disraeli

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 19, 2001.

"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout."

- Anonymous -

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), March 19, 2001.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world… as in being able to remake ourselves.

-- Mahatma Gandhi

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 20, 2001.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

-- Samuel Goldwyn

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 20, 2001.

I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do.

- Jack Handey

-- Bemused (and_amazed@you.people), March 20, 2001.

"Criticism is prejudice made plausible. "

- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 20, 2001.

To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off; to be like the flame of a candle, which, in spite of being up against the light of a billion stars, remains intact, because it never pretended to be more than what it is: a mere candle."

~ don Juan, from The Art of Dreaming by Carlos Castaneda

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 21, 2001.

Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.

-- F.A. Hayek

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 21, 2001.

"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."

-~Pablo Picasso

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), March 21, 2001.

"I am never less idle than when I am idle and never less alone than when I am alone."

-- Scipio Africanus (as quoted by Cicero)

-- Little Nipper (canis@minor.net), March 21, 2001.

"A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties"

Reginald B. Mansell

-- FutureShock (gray@matter.think), March 21, 2001.

You'll be dead soon.

--Paul Milne to Stephen Poole

-- (from@the.archives), March 21, 2001.

To specialize is to brush one tooth.

-- Tom Robbins

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 22, 2001.

The day will come when after harnessing space, the winds, the tides and gravitation, we shall harness the energies of love. And on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, we shall have discovered fire.

--Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 23, 2001.

He is free who knows how to keep in his own hand the power to decide, at each step, the course of his life, and who lives in a society which does not block the exercise of that power.

-- Salvador de Madariaga

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 23, 2001.

Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

-- Lord Halifax

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 24, 2001.

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 24, 2001.

Love is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families and nations."

-- Paramahansa Yogananda

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 25, 2001.

A dog wags its tail with its heart.

--Martin Buxbaum

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 25, 2001.

Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun… Don’t be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure.

---White Eagle

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 26, 2001.

Unity and self-sacrifice, of themselves, even when fostered by the most noble means, produce a facility for hating. Even when men league themselves mightily together to promote tolerance and peace on earth, they are likely to be violently intolerant toward those not of a like mind.

-- Eric Hoffer

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 26, 2001.

Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of.

- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 26, 2001.

Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

--Edwin Hubbel Chapin

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 27, 2001.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

-- Winston Churchill

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 27, 2001.

"When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do."

-William Blake

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), March 27, 2001.

Late have I loved you, beauty so old and so new; late have I loved you. And see, you were within and I was in the external world and sought you there, and in my unlovely state I plunged into those lovely created things which you made. You were with me, and I was not with you. The lovely things kept me far from you, though if they did not have their existence in you, they had no existence at all. You called and cried out loud and shattered my deafness. You were radiant and resplendent, you put to flight my blindness. You were fragrant, and I drew in my breath and now pant after you. I tasted you, and I feel but hunger and thirst for you. You touched me, and I am set on fire to attain the peace which is yours.

--Augustine

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 27, 2001.

Unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty Than the person who has nothing to eat . . . We must find each other.

--Mother Teresa

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 28, 2001.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

-- Mark Twain

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 29, 2001.

A peace that comes from fear and not from the heart is the opposite of peace.

~ Gersonides ~

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 29, 2001.

Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, It finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will for constructive purposes, You become the controller of you destiny.

--Paramahansa Yogananda

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), March 30, 2001.

We must recall that the basic principle of liberty is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds.

-- Dante Alighieri

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 30, 2001.

If you have learned how to disagree without being disagreeable, then you have discovered the secrete of getting along -- whether it be business, family relations, or life itself.

--Bernard Meltzer

-- (bygrace@thru.faith), March 31, 2001.

If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names.

—~ Elaine Gill

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), March 31, 2001.

It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others.

-- Aristotle

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), March 31, 2001.

"Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service."

_ _ Me

-- So (cr@t.es), March 31, 2001.

Lust is when you love what you see.

Love is when you lust for what's inside

--Renee Conkle

-- (only@m.e), March 31, 2001.

The lover sleeps and amid his dreams

His angel comes on sunlit beams.

To waken him with kisses sweet,

For her love for him is oh so deep.

She wakes him with her caresses light

Upon his skin and smiles so bright.

And in her eyes, he sees the love She feels for him neath stars above. He comes to her to gently place, Kisses upon her neck and face. To caress her body and touch her soul. For together two become a whole. The love they make is deep and true

And in this embrace their love renew. When all is done and all's been said, Upon her breasts he rests his head. And hears her heart beat for him alone. A greater love, he's never known.

-- (only@m.e), April 01, 2001.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

-- Thomas Sowell

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), April 01, 2001.

There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

-~Camille Paglia

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), April 01, 2001.

When I die, I wish to comeback as one of her tears

What man would be so lucky

As to have been conceived in her heart,

Born in her eyes,

Live on her cheeks,

And die at her lips?

.

Not attributed where I found it, but worth sharing. Tomorrow a new quote thread I think.

-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), April 02, 2001.

It is better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

-- (regular@poster.com), April 02, 2001.

The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze.

~Unknown~

-- Debra (Thisis@it.com), April 02, 2001.

A mighty pain to love it is,

And tis a pain that pain to miss;

But of all pains, the greatest pain

It is to love, but love in vain.

--Abraham Cowley

-- (and@one.more), April 03, 2001.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

--Mother Teresa

-- Aunt Bee (Aunt__Bee@hotmail.com), April 03, 2001.