Quotes - April 17, 2012

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

Thanks Stephen.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
-- Frank Zappa

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
-- Isaac Asimov

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.
-- Mark Twain

If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
-- P. G. Wodehouse

[St8arrow]

"The paradox of course is that you can never have
enough information. But you cannot gather information forever."

(Priscilla Elfry)

my note --- (Ultimately you must act.)

[St8arrow]

Not a quotation but rather a comment on Mark Twain who is quoted in the first message in this site. His real name was Samuel Clements. In the Civil War he was an Officer with the Confederate army. He deserted his post and traveled 2000 miles to the west coast to avoid capture. That aspect of his life was put forward in the book called, Grant's Last Victory.

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

St8arrow,

Thanks. A bit of history, I like that.

Warmie

[St8arrow]

Hello

I like your use of the smiley face. Thanks also for starting this thread.

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

St8arrow,

Thank you. And thank you for reading the Corner. We felt a need for a little spot to give another a reason to smile.

<---- Always fun and nice to receive. I smile a lot.

Warmie

[St8arrow]

I think this next quotation is just a cover for all of the silly mistakes I actually make.

"I made a mistake once. I thought I was wrong but I wasn't."

[St8arrow]

Give me patience Lord, --- but hurry!!

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

St8arrow.

LOL those both fit me, well almost. The 'hurry' one does for sure.

Warmie

[St8arrow]

Let's keep this topic on the front page a little longer.

To err is human. To blame it on someone else is even more human.

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

St8arrow,

Okay, and thanks.

Warmie

[St8arrow]

The person who does things makes many mistakes,
but they never make the biggest mistake of all,
which is --- to do nothing.

(Benjamin Franklin)

[Warmsoul/Jeanie13]

He was a wise man!