Great Quotes

[lordofthepiperings]

My favorite pipe quote has to be from Jim Liley, "I am not the owner of this collection of Peterson pipes. I am merely it's custodian,"

 

[trailspike48]

No man sins by an act he can not avoid.

Saint Francis of Assisi

 

[crazypipe]

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
- Buckminster Fuller -

 

[crazypipe]

A mother's heart is the child's classroom
- Henry Ward Beecher -

 

[bphilli75]

Surely I have just missed this somewhere in the thread:

"As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake."

- Mark Twain 70th birthday speech
"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke
"Many that live deserve death. Some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them, Frodo? Do not be too eager to deal out death in judgment. Even the very wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf, LOTR

 

[crazypipe]

I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me, they are the role model for being alive.
- Gilda Radner -

 

[tbradsim1]

My Favorite is Pogo. ( We have Met the Enemy and They is Us ).

 

[crazypipe]

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses
- William Arthur Ward -

 

[crazypipe]

Deep Sleep

Ignorance is like a deep sleep in which you dream you are still awake. It is a disease of humanity. The human soul forgets who it belongs to and starts reacting without referring to spiritual values.

 

[crazypipe]

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -

 

[alexl]

"Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing...after they have exhausted all other possibilities."
Winston Churchill
8)

 

[etsisbull]

“It's easy to quit smoking. I've done it hundreds of times.” -- Mark Twain.
I often think of this when someone suggest that I quit.

 

[crazypipe]

Common sense is not so common.

Jessica Truman

 

[plateauguy]

God invented whiskey so that the Irish would not take over the world.

- Unknown

 

[gecko13]

"To Learn Who Rules You, Find Out Who You Can't Criticize" Voltaire

 

[ciderguy]

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. - Plutarch
Beware the barrenness of a busy life. - Socrates
There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. - Knut Hamsun

 

[captainsousie]

“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.”

-Beethoven

 

[trailspike48]

Two from "Semi Tough" Novel by Dan Jenkins.
You look like turds what fell out of a tall cows ass.

What could of happened did.

 

[crazypipe]

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do.
- Elbert Hubbard -

 

[bigriggers01]

'Seek not within my mind to dwell, you have your own'

-Aristophanes (either parodying or quoting a no longer extant Euripidean tragedy)