posted on March 23, 2004 11:55:56 PM new
"It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream -- a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -- a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"-----Mysterious Stranger
This is also applicable to a weekend in Lubbock.
"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them."- John Wayne/The Shootist"(from the novel by Glendon Swarthout)
posted on March 24, 2004 06:45:50 AM new
love this thread, jack!!! ... what in the world made you think of it? [and love the posts too LOL] ...
Here's one I found ...
COMPENSATION
...it was the great law of compensation--the great law that regulates Nature's heedless agents, and sees that when they make a mistake, they shall at the self-same moment prevent that mistake from working evil consequences. Behold, the same gust of wind that blows a lady's dress aside, and exposes her ankle, fills your eyes so full of sand that you can't see it. Marvellous are the works of Nature!
- "Concerning the Conundrum"
posted on March 24, 2004 06:56:32 AM new
"Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink- under any circumstances"
posted on March 24, 2004 08:01:40 AM new
Who are the oppressors? The few: the king, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: The nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat. [From speech, "Knights of Labor -- The New Dynasty," March 22, 1886]
posted on March 24, 2004 08:29:25 AM new"Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
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"I have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to the people who sleep under the very blanket of freedom I provide, and then question the manner in which I provide it." - A Few Good Men
posted on March 24, 2004 04:46:46 PM new
As the years have gone by, Mark Twain has gained even greater stature. I"ve been thinking about him lately because Hal Holbrook was on Bill Moyer's show this week doing his wonderful Twain readings. Marvelous stuff.
We have the two original Mark Twain Tonight albums Holbrook did, and a couple of years ago we went to one of his shows in Salt Lake City and I got him to sign the two albums. They are my treasures.
Thanks, Jack, for starting this thread.
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Have you noticed since everyone has a Camcorder these days no one talks
about seeing UFOs like they used to?
posted on March 24, 2004 05:14:45 PM new
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand
to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished
at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
