I love quotes....I thought it would be interesting to start a thread to share quotes we run across from time to time, you know how you're always seeing them at the end of emails, etc. I saw this one today...


"Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intent of arriving safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming....


"WOO HOO! WHAT A RIDE!"

Hope this fits, Patti......

Somebody has said there are only two kinds of people in the world. There are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good morning, Lord," and there are those who wake up in the morning and say, "Good Lord, it's morning."

If life is a bowl of cherries, what am I doing in the pits? - Erma Bombeck

Here is one I like....If you aren't living on the edge, you are taking up too much space! :babyha: :star:

LOL......"If he does that to me again, I'm gonna put him in the wall".

Kyle Busch, talking about his brother, Kurt Busch.

My alltime favorite quote...


"This above all: to thine ownself be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man"......Shakespeare

"If you're an idiot and get saved, you're still an idiot. A saved idiot, yes, but an idiot none the less."

JD Sumner

I like that one!!!! :star:

My Dad you to say to me.."If you go to bed the same day you get up, you wouldn't have to get up the same day you went to bed"


I would hear this a lot on Sunday mornings when I was in High School when he would wake me to go to Church and I would grumple about it!!!!

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
-- Oscar Wilde

At a dinner party Lady Astor remarked to Winston Churchill, "Sir Winston, you're drunk!"
To which, Winston replied, "Yes, Madam, I am. And you're ugly! But in the morning, I will be sober!" :whistling: :doggie:

Another of my very favorite quotes....


All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.....Edmund Burke

"Sometimes, I'd like to have the spirit of Mother Teresa and the checkbook of Bill Gates."

~Father Alan during his Sunday sermon~

Father Alan is a wise man with a wonderful sense of humor.....lol

I liked that one too...... it was on Cold Case last night.

My favorite Father Alan quote is this:

"When you read the parables of Jesus if you ever find yourself identifying with either Jesus or the hero in the parable, you've probably missed the meaning altogether."

He is very wise beyond his years.

Another very interesting quote of Edmund Burke...


By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation....


We've got a lot of rats gnawing these days.....lol

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -Victor Borge

Every time I pass the church
I stop and make a visit
So when I'm carried in feet first
God won't say "Who is it?"

"Who is it?" "It's the plumber!"...punchline from an old George Younce joke...

That one was so funny! George was priceless.

there are a couple I use often and love... one's scripture

From the Overflow of the heart the mouth speaks. Luke 6:45


the other one is ... what goes around comes around. Nothing goes over the devil's back that one day wont come under his belly.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. Mark Twain

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.....Alexander Pope

I like that Patti.

I also like...

"When the goin' gets tough, the tough get goin'" :D

Hope springs eternal......Alexander Pope

or like I heard it last night.....


Hope springs a kernel.....Denny Crane....Boston Legal.....

It's a beautiful day in the neighbourhood... Mr. Rogers...

Ooh, I like that too, Patti. I've had to admit that I'm wrong several times lately. Hopefully, I will learn and grow.

Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? - George Carlin

whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely....think on these things

Confession is good for the soul...... (I don't know who said it)

To err is human; to forgive, divine. - Alexander Pope

Josey Wales: When I get to likin' someone, they ain't around long.
Lone Watie: I notice when you get to DISlikin' someone they ain't around for long neither.

"Are you staying home from church again?" -- my sister :unsure:

Confucius say.......... Woman who put detergent on top shelf, jump for Joy.

It's ok if you cry over a dead deer...... just don't get any tears on my deer. - Randy

:rollinglaughing:

It's most certainly ok to cry over a dead deer....I've cried over most I've shot...it's sad....but the moment passes.... Seriously.....the older I get, the harder it is to do...I think this is my last year.

"Am I just eating because I'm bored?"...Jim Carrey as the Grinch

What if "the season to be jolly" lasted all year long?........ (Dove smooth milk chocolate with almonds candy wrapper)