"When did you get to be so old?" - My 80 year old Aunt
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"When did you get to be so old?" - My 80 year old Aunt
"Travel is fatal to prejudice, biggotry, and Narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth."
--Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad (1869)
fly fishing is not a matter of life and death --- it's much more important than that
mike
"Hooksets are free."
"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, teach a man to fish and he'll never go back to work."
"There's a fine line between a pastime and an obsession, and that line is floating and weight-forward."
There's no such thing as adventure.... just bad planning.
If he had a scruple, it would die of loneliness (Churchill of course).
My fans wouldn't know good music if it bit them on the a** (Zappa).
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Eschew Sesquipedalian Obfuscation
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The final sentence in the movie/book Cannery Row....
"Once again, the world was spinning on greased gears."
My other favorite is by Mark Twain.
"Interesting if true.........Interesting anyway."
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"the point is that it's totally ****ing pointless" sam shepherd
"I know a thing or two about a thing or two."
robert deniro in this boy's life
"practice doesn't make perfect. perfect practice makes perfect."
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"No matter where you go, there you are!"
Buckaroo Bonsai
"I'm so hungry, I could eat a baby's butt through a park bench!" My Mom
"Life is short, eat dessert first!" My 84 year young Granny. And to this day often does.
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"There are lies, damn lies, and statistics." (Mark Twain)
"Try it my way; anyone can do it the right way." (unknown)
Strange the things you can remember in your old age, unlike what you ate for supper yesterday!!!
Obscure saying that appeared on the side of a box of donuts circa @ 1950:
"As you travel on through life brother,
Whatever be your goal,
Keep your eye upon the donut,
And not upon the hole!"