WINNER ANNOUNCED: Quote GIVEAWAY!!!

And another of my favorites:
"There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."

Aristotle
 
"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew, to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing left in you except the will which says to them "hold on"".
 
In Flanders Fields the poppies blow,
between the crosses row on row.
That mark our place, and in the sky
the larks still bravely singing fly,
scarce heard amidst the guns below.

We are the dead. Short days ago
we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
loved, and were loved, and now we lie
in Flanders Fields

Take up our quarrel with the foe,
to you from failing hands we throw
the torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die,
we shall not sleep, though poppies grow
in Flanders Fields.
 
So did anyone ever guess why the 7th? Or, did I miss that?
 
thanks to everyone has entered so far, great wisdom and quotes :)

KBA: it's just my birthday, no significance it just occurred to me when i was posting that the date was close enough to be a good deadline, so why not? Nice to see who are Johns sub-forum by the way, good luck hunting that Russell :)
 
Peter, that knife is beautiful. Thank you the opportunity to have a chance at winning it.

JK Knives said:
Happy Wife, Happy Life.
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One that I like that is along the same lines as the one above:

"You can be right, or you can be happy. "

Good luck everyone, great idea for a GAW, Peter! I'm loving all the quotes/wisdom! :) :thumbup:
 
Roger Miller said:
Roses are red, violets are purple, sugar's sweet and so's maple surple.
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It simply doesn't get any better than that.
 
I'm in. This is a long quote from one of my favorite movies, The Yearling. I'm not a religious man, but these words have always touched me.

Penny Baxter: [on the ocasion of the buryal of Fodderwing] "Oh Lord. Almighty God. It ain't for us ignorant mortals to say what's right and what's wrong. Was any one of us to be doin' of it, we'd not of bring this poor boy into the world a cripple, and his mind teched. We'd of bring him in straight and tall like his brothers, fitten to live and work and do. But in a way o' speakin', Lord, you done made it up to him. You give him a way with the wild creatures. You give him a sort of wisdom, made him knowin' and gentle. The birds come to him, and the varmints moved free about him, and like as not he could of takened a she wild-cat right in his pore twisted hands. Now you've done seed fit to take him where bein' crookedy in mind or limb don't matter. But Lord, it pleasures us to think now you've done straightened out them legs and that pore bent back and them hands. It pleasures us to think on him, movin' around as easy as any one. And Lord, give him a few red-birds and maybe a squirrel and a 'coon and a 'possum to keep him company, like he had here. All of us is somehow lonesome, and we know he'll not be lonesome, do he have them little wild things around him, if it ain't askin' too much to put a few varmints in Heaven. Thy will be done. Amen."
 
protourist said:
It simply doesn't get any better than that.
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That was special :D

Joe Duder said:
I'm in. This is a long quote from one of my favorite movies, The Yearling. I'm not a religious man, but these words have always touched me.

Penny Baxter: [on the ocasion of the buryal of Fodderwing] "Oh Lord. Almighty God. It ain't for us ignorant mortals to say what's right and what's wrong. Was any one of us to be doin' of it, we'd not of bring this poor boy into the world a cripple, and his mind teched. We'd of bring him in straight and tall like his brothers, fitten to live and work and do. But in a way o' speakin', Lord, you done made it up to him. You give him a way with the wild creatures. You give him a sort of wisdom, made him knowin' and gentle. The birds come to him, and the varmints moved free about him, and like as not he could of takened a she wild-cat right in his pore twisted hands. Now you've done seed fit to take him where bein' crookedy in mind or limb don't matter. But Lord, it pleasures us to think now you've done straightened out them legs and that pore bent back and them hands. It pleasures us to think on him, movin' around as easy as any one. And Lord, give him a few red-birds and maybe a squirrel and a 'coon and a 'possum to keep him company, like he had here. All of us is somehow lonesome, and we know he'll not be lonesome, do he have them little wild things around him, if it ain't askin' too much to put a few varmints in Heaven. Thy will be done. Amen."
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Never seen it, might have to now :) thanks
 
There is no women who can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable amount of time. Or, I could carve a better man out of a banana. I saw both in books by Kurt Vonnegut
 
"I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves." Jerry Garcia
 
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand

To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson.
 
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If you can take the time to eat every day for your body - you can take the time to pray every day for your soul.

Me - 2008
 
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