LEB
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Glen Gardner
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jan 30, 2008 - 09:02am PT
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Could we have another quotations thread? I really LOVED the stuff some of you guys came up with last time and many were quite useful to have around. Woody, you are very good at this and came up with some great ones, as I recall. So did some other people here. Could we have more of them, please? I am saving them to a file I am keeping.
Here is one I like:
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." Albert Camus
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TKingsbury
Trad climber
MT
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:06am PT
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“There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.”
Hunter S. Thompson
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:08am PT
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You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
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justthemaid
climber
Los Angeles
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:08am PT
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"Let not the sands of time get in your lunch box."
(can't remember who said it)
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locker
Trad climber
Joshua Tree Ca
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:09am PT
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"Sh!t and 2 make four"...
~~~ Ronald M. Thompson
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:10am PT
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What is all this fuss I hear about the Supreme Court decision on a "deaf" penalty? It's terrible! Deaf people have enough problems as it is!
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:12am PT
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" Always be sure nothing in heat is nearby if Locker is belaying you."
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TradIsGood
Chalkless climber
the Gunks end of the country
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:14am PT
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"Busting schoolchildren is a terrible, terrible thing. I hear this is going on all over the country. Mean policemen arrest little children and put them in jail in the wrong neighborhood, so they can't even play with their little friends. Imagine, busting schoolchildren! The food in jail isn't good, and even though they get bread, I don't believe they can get toast. Or nice cake. Now, who will tuck them in? Where will they hang their leggings? Where will they set up their little lemonade stands? Well, they don't have toys in jail, except maybe.."
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mojede
Trad climber
Butte, America
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:17am PT
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"When you speak, you should open your mouth a little wider."--Willy Wonka.
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Salathiel
Trad climber
South Beach, FL
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:27am PT
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"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to have them hold in higher regard those that think alike, than those that think differently."
Fred "hug a horse" Nietzsche
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Shingle
climber
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:32am PT
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Mark Twain: "The researches of many commentators have already thrown much darkness on this subject, and it is probable, if they continue, we'll soon know nothing at all about it."
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AbeFrohman
Trad climber
new york, NY
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:35am PT
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"Dont worry about nothing, 'cause nothings gonna be OK."
"Money comes and goes, time just goes."
-my dad
"A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. "
"I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it. "
and I especially like this one:
"I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it. "
-Groucho Marx
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divad
Trad climber
wmass
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:35am PT
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When all is said and done, there is always more said than done.
Don't know who said that.
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xkyczar
Trad climber
denver
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:37am PT
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"We are all bros, bro, but if a bro fcks with you, you got to be ready to wax his gnarly ass, post haste."
Alex in Weisbecker's "Can't You Get Along With Anyone?"
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spot
climber
Atascadero,Ca
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:45am PT
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"Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results"
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L
climber
A Big Puddle on the Coast of CA
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Jan 30, 2008 - 09:48am PT
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A couple of my favorites from Mark Twain:
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
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Tomcat
Trad climber
Chatham N.H.
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Jan 30, 2008 - 10:06am PT
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My friend Maz speaking of his brother in law..."I wish I was as sure about one thing as he is about everything"
"Better to say nothing and be thought a fool then open ones mouth and remove all doubt" Mark Twain.
Have to paraphrase this one"When I was seventeen I thought my father an idiot,by twenty-one I was amazed how much he'd learned". Also Twain(Clements)
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LEB
climber
Glen Gardner
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2008 - 10:11am PT
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These are great quotes!
I LOVE the insanity one and I am ever guity of it. My husband refers to me as a hopeless optimist.
I do temper the optimism with realism i.e. hope for the best but prepare for the worst.
I love the dog bite one, too. Some of these quotes are REALLY great. All of them which have been posted are VERY good.
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WoodySt
Trad climber
Riverside
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Jan 30, 2008 - 10:31am PT
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Here's a snappy historical one: An American, Ward Beecher, was in London during the American Civil war trying to drum up support for the Union cause. During a speech to a hostile crowd, a heckler cried out, " Why didn't you whip the Confederates in six weeks like you said you would?" Beecher replied, " Because we found we had Americans to fight this time, not Englishmen." Classic retort.
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LEB
climber
Glen Gardner
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 30, 2008 - 10:38am PT
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Great quote, Woody, and so true. Although the truth-be-told, the Brits put up quite a good fight.
You know, that whole thing about whipping the yanks is 6 weeks and then going back to the farm in time to make the Sunday church picnic makes a very good point. Too many people - INCLUDING GWB - underestimate the enemy and don't give him or her enough credit for their ability to strike back and create havoc. It is a very common error in all walks of life. GW did it in Iraq but it has been done over and over again. The "enemy" is rarely as stupid or inept as we like to think he is and we are rarely as smart and superior as we like to think we are.
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