Famous (and not so famous) quotes

[Space Cadette]

A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops.

John J. Pershing

[waiting for lilacs]

    In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about Life

                         It goes on

                                                       Robert Frost

[Jack McClennan]

Santa is very jolly because he knows where all the bad girls live.
Dennis Miller

[Fallon]

I have one that I got from m'friends t-shirt. He was Army.

"People Sleep Peaceably In Their Beds
At Night Only Because Rought Men
Stand Ready To Do Violence On Their Behalf."

163rd Scout INF 'Recon' US Army

[Pollypocket]

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

Eugene O'Neill

[Jack McClennan]

"Bill Gates is just a white Persian cat and a monocle away from being a villain in a James Bond movie."
Dennis Miller

[Pollypocket]

People expect the clergy to have the grace of a swan, the friendliness of a sparrow, the strength of an eagle and the night hours of an owl - and some people expect such a bird to live on the food of a canary.

Edward Jeffrey

[waiting for lilacs]

      I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time.

          Hobbes (of Calvin and .....)

[Pollypocket]

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

Elisabeth Foley

[Space Cadette]

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

Sir Winston Churchill

[Pollypocket]

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Jack McClennan]

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours."
Eric Idle

[Pollypocket]

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

Walter Anderson

[zingela]

"Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark."
-- Sir Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

[waiting for lilacs]

       Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.
Epicurus