Quote O' The Day

[Peelz]

if only I could achieve your status.....

[Hefe]

ERMAHGERD lol

[dragonz]

peels may want to be the stunt Ass in Anal Invaders, but Hefe wants to be the fluffer...........

[Krandall]

"On that best portion of a good man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered, acts of kindness and of love." -William Wordsworth


This quote is from the poem generally referred to as "Tintern Abbey" (titled, in full, "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour, 13 July 1798"). The poem appears at the end of Lyrical Ballads, in the preface to which Wordsworth explains his efforts to illustrate "the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation." He defined a poet as "a man speaking to men... who has a greater knowledge of human nature, and a more comprehensive soul; a man pleased with his own passions and volitions, and who rejoices more than other men in the spirit of life that is in him."

[Krandall]

"Men adore women. Our mothers taught us to. Women do not adore men; women are amused by men, we are a source of chuckles." -Garrison Keillor


This quote is from Garrison Keillor's 1993 The Book of Guys, a collection of short stories that begins with Keillor's observations about the state of modern masculinity. He laments, in part, about the sudden and unexpected shock of aging: "With no warning, we wake up one morning stricken with middle age, full of loneliness, dumb, in pain... Our work is useless, our vocation is lost, and nobody cares about us at all. This is not bearable. In despair, we go do something spectacularly dumb, like run away with Amber the cocktail waitress, and suddenly all the women in our life look at us with unmitigated disgust."

[Krandall]

[Today at 02:02:02 PM] del ban PeelsSE2: Id even ride funyuns mom again, if it meant seat time

[Spartan]

Too bad that seat's already been worn and ripped up by so many other members  

[Peelz]

L-O-L @ my lurkin friends

[Krandall]

"A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man." -Arland Ussher


Percival Arland Ussher (1899-1980) was a writer and translator who studied contemporary Irish literature. In Three Great Irishmen -- about Shaw, Yeats and Joyce -- Ussher remarks that he has an affinity for the work of these authors "by accident of my birth and upbringing." But they may well be the three greatest Irishmen of their century: "In an age when philosophy has forsaken the academical world for the world of the artist, they supply... something like a complete truth by which a man can live."

[Krandall]

"One always dies too soon, or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are your life, and nothing else." -Jean-Paul Sartre


This line is from the 20th-century French philosopher/playwright's No Exit, a one-act existentialist play also responsible for the famous quote "Hell is other people."

I like this one a lot.

[Peelz]

[Today at 01:02:30 PM] del ban Chillomar: You haven't seen what miracles we Mexicans could do with whip cream

we all have unique talents 

[Krandall]

[Today at 01:09:38 PM] del ban PeelsSE2: the less english you know, the better your food is. I can prove this

[Krandall]

"Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics." -Cesare Lombroso

The 19th-century Italian criminologist was somewhat influential in his era, but most of his beliefs on sociology and anthropology are now entirely debunked (Lombroso was writing when Social Darwinism and physiognomy were still in vogue). This line comes from Lombroso's book The Man of Genius, in which he attempts to explore the relationship between insanity and genius.

[Krandall]

"A man who has blown all his options can't afford the luxury of changing his ways. He has to capitalize on whatever he has left." -Hunter S. Thompson

This line is from Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga, for which Thompson lived and rode with a biker gang populated by the type of man who "can't afford to admit that every day of his life takes him farther and farther down a blind alley." Thompson described the lives of the Angels frankly, but not without sympathy: "It's hard to laugh when your teeth are so rotten that they hurt all the time and no dentist will touch you unless the bill is paid in advance. So it helps to believe, when the body rot starts to hurt, that the pain is a small price to pay for the higher rewards of being a righteous Angel."

[Krandall]

"There is nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right notes at the right time, and the instrument plays itself." -Johann Sebastian Bach


Various phrasings of this quote are attributed to Bach. Though a temperamental man -- not surprising for an exacting and accomplished master of composition -- Bach was by all accounts modest about his extensive talents. His unassuming personality may have been a reflection of his spirituality; the composer was a devout Lutheran and, of the hundreds of pieces that he wrote, most were religiously dedicated.