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Jevverrett":kslvly7s said:
Don't feel too bad buddy. Most of my favorite quotes are from biblical prophets.

I know, I know... Get ye to thy rubber room! Lol
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Isn't that the truth!
 
I have to learn to not offend. I never have and will have to work on it i just say whats on my mind.
 
Well, I'm not too keen on religion, to say the least, but speaking for myself, quotes from religious sources don't bother me. Quite the contrary; some are profound. But they have to stand on their own merits, not because of the source. No appeals to authority, in other words. Quote away, gentlemen. I suggest the King James for its language and poetry.

How about this one, which happens to have both a religious and secular interpretation? Or am I banned?

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"  ~ Mark, somewhere or other.
 
Richard Burley":ymbhlpoa said:
Quote away, gentlemen. I suggest the King James for its language and poetry.

How about this one, which happens to have both a religious and secular interpretation? Or am I banned?

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?"  ~ Mark, somewhere or other.
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I heard Sting use that quote, to wit:

"You may ask, what does it profit a man
To gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his soul?
Is that your body you see on the rocks below
As the tide begins to roll?"
 
I always liked proverbs 31:10.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

Reminds me of how well off I am, even if I don't always appreciate her lol.
 
I always lived by the rule in my life. So.e one will always say so.ething i dont like or agree with but tgats the beauty of amarica so its nice to see the openness
 
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.
 
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson



"For I know the plans I have for you...plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."

- Jeremiah 29:11
 
"Marry in haste, repent at leisure"

(Unknown)


"If thee wants owt for nowt, better do it for thissen"

(Old Yorkshire saying)


"To thine own self be true"

(Shakespeare)


Cheers,

RR
 
This house is where I take my natural rest, but my home is out there, beyond the back door.

Albert "Salmo" McClain - 1965
 
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.
H. L. Mencken

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
H. L. Mencken

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
H. L. Mencken

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
H. L. Mencken

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken

Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

In God we trust. All others pay cash.
me
 
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
― Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

(Actually, I think it's already happened more than once....)
 
If you think it is expensive to hire a professional, wait until you hire an amateur. Red Adair
 
"They know you can't get people to stop smoking, so they develop a system of informants. That's the whole idea of second-hand smoke, you know. Make second-hand smoke dangerous and turn everybody against smokers. Then they say you can't even smoke in a bar -- a bar! -- because bartenders have a right to a smoke-free 'workspace.' Ah, bartenders, those health nuts ..."

~  Fran Lebowitz
 
"First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me."


Martin Niemöller





Cheers,

RR
 
Good quotes!

Felonious, my old friend
Step on in and let me shake your hand
So glad that you're here again for one more time
Let your madness run with mine
Streets still unseen, we'll find somehow
No time is better than now

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