Do you have a favorite quote or saying? # 2

Thanks pirl. I had forgotten who to attribute that one to.

Interesting thoughts on Gita's quote. To me , it simply means being empathic and being present for another.
Mahnot, I love Ben Franklin too and I get aggravated by the historians who pass him off as trite. I hadn't realized until a few years ago that he was the greatest scientist of his day as well as a great statesman and diplomat (plus he had a sense of humor, something John Adams could have used).

I'm late to the game, but here are a few:

English writer Michael Jackson (not the pop star) wrote this in reference to American Brewers Anheuser Busch, Molson-Coors and SAB Miller:

"If I want something light, clean and refreshing, sparkling water does the trick."

Poet Dorothy Parker:

"You can drag a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”

“If you want to see what God thinks of money, just look at all the people He gave it to.”

Poet Edgar Allen Poe:

"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."

Montaigne:

"If you don't know how to die, don't worry; Nature will tell you what to do on the spot, fully and adequately. She will do this job perfectly for you; don't bother your head about it."

Will Rogers:

"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

Sophocles:

"It is terrible to speak well and be wrong."

David Bowie:

“I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.”

Dave, he was also quite a ladies man and was very popular
at the French court :o) I've long been an admirer of his,
as well as of John and Abigail Adams.

The founding fathers were an extraordinary bunch indeed.
Men and women of flesh and blood who risked all - as they said
"our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor." It's a shame they have
been reduced to characitures.

I wonder if Dorothy Parker's tombstone does say what she planned:

Pardon my dust

JJ - quoting the old beerhunter now - I like it!



It's better to regret something you have done then somethiing you haven't.

Hiya, I'm late too, lol, but I couldn't resist.

"Any idiot can face a crises, it's the day to day living that wears you out."
Anton Chekov
"Don't take life too seriously, you can't come out of it alive."
Warren Miller
"In three words, I can sum up everything I've learned about life....it goes on."
Robert Frost

Great thread everybody, nice to "meet" you!
Jackie

WElcome Jackie!

"There was a catch...catch 22" IMO one of the funniest books ever written

Hi Jackie! Love those quotes!

Harper

Hi Jackie! Welcome!! Your not too late, in fact your right on time and we want more!

Welcome, Jackie. good ones!

Thanks Dave, Harper, Pixie and Gram!!
(I like Joseph Heller a lot, and also Kurt Vonnegut. Ok, I just love to read!)
Here are a few of my other favorite quotes:

"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
John Lennon
"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate."
George Burns
"When someone asks you, a penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?
George Carlin
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees."
Kahlil Gibran
"Go play outside and blow the stink off of ya."
My Mother

Thanks again for the warm welcome to the forum! Stay warm!,
Jackie

Vonnegut is also great. To me, Heller was a one hit wonder. Read a couple of others but nothing was like Catch 22. Glad you joined. I love your Mom's quote!

Dave, I know what you mean about Heller, but I did like Picture This too.
My Mom loved her quote too, she sure used it often enough when I was young, lol.

Bebe, Was that the sequel to Catch 22? If so I read it, if not I'll try it. Beside Catch 22, I read Good as Gold and the sequel that came out 20 yrs. later.

Sorry for the diversion from the thread, but good books is important stuff!

Hey, Jackie, just realized we're from the same neck of the woods! I grew up in Buffalo proper, lived in almost every suburb at one time or another, was in Snyder for many years and built a new home in Wheatfield about 4 years ago.

Dave, the sequal was Closing Time (1994) and I admit I've never read it. I don't think any of his other works were quite the caliber of Catch-22. Picture This revolves around semi-historical figures and a Rembrandt painting, spanning something like three periods in history. It is unique, but offers the same critical style of human observation that few other authors of the last century have been able to pull off without sounding preachy. I still have a dust-covered paperback copy, lol: say the word and I'll send it to you. :)
Gram! Hiya again! I grew up in Kenmore, and have lived in the city of Buffalo for twenty-two years. Wheatfield is a great place, I'll bet you have the room to really garden that I can only dream about!

I don't read as much as I should anymore. I used to be a voracious reader.

Jackie, I have 3/4 of an acre, but part of it is underwater LOL. we're in one of the new subdivisions off Shawnee and have a small lake in the back, and part of the lot is actually the lake. I love it. plus we don't get as much snow up her in the northtowns. nice to have another WNY'er in the crew. help tip the scales to the west ;0)

Who is helping me tip the scales to the faaaaaaarrrr North? I don't know about you guys but its -10 right now and thats without the windchill. They say we are more like
-25 right now! Visiting DD in Florida is sounding really good right now!

Hasn't been below zero here this winter, usually -17 is our coldest, there's about a month to go for that yet.

Jan - tell them to lower the lake level because you need more planting space.

Japanese and Louisiana irises would love Gram's wet spot!

Gram, sounds beautiful! How nice to have built your house; were you able to landscape the way you wanted?
I am about 5 minutes from the Peace Bridge, and 10 from Delaware Park. Most homes have pretty small lots, especially if you really like to garden. :) In that case, every inch has to count.
I haven't read as much for the last few years either, unless you count the reading on the Internet, lol.
Pixie, wow! That's colder than it gets here. We started out early this morning at 4 degrees (wind chills at -15) but we're at 10 right now.

Temperature right now of 10.8, winds at 15 MPH giving a wind chill of minus 4. I'm staying right here, feet firmly planted on baseboard heating.

Pirl.
-2 here now but the weatherman says its -17 with the wind. Not safe for anything that has blood pumping thru its veins! I'm with you..feet firmly planted!!

There was one super wind gust at 1:00 A.M. that had me sitting upright in bed. It slammed the huge old Hinoki cypress into the screen so hard I thought someone had to be trying to break in through the window. Of course, it was just the wind but what a fright. Harry, the fierce Lhasa guard, slept right through it.

Nothing succeeds like a Parrot without a beak!

I'm no longer a voracious reader but I'm still a voracious eater!

Hurray for voracious eaters! That's a club I definitely could belong to, Lol!

pirl, I had a nice little clump of Jap. iris down by the lake. the Canada geese eat it down to the ground every time it sprouts. it's only bloomed once in 3 years. I was trying to get a little bog garden started, but the lake level changes so much, and the geese never change LOL.

jackie, not only could we landscape the way we wanted, we had a blank slate. Our house was a custom build and didn't even come with a lawn. there are some restrictions on putting tall trees in the back because we're not allowed to block the neighbors view of the lake. we put in some basic foundation landscaping the first year, added some stuff to that the next year. 2005 I put in a heather garden and my 'fairy' garden (planted to attract hummers & b'flies). spring 2007 will be my rose garden.

al, I'm not out of space yet

it's all the way UP to 17 tonight, practically balmy, and not much wind today.

It's toasty here at 28º. Wind chill -2.

Gram, do you have pictures of your garden posted in DG? Sorry to hear about the geese. Pirl got me going imagining irises growing by the lake.

Harper

Sounds really nice, gram. That is dream come true for many gardeners...glad to see you're living it. I think the only thing I might wish for was more shade, but I could probably learn to adapt, lol.
My friend lives in East Amherst where she backs up to a lake also, and she gets occasional heron also.
How's the deer situation?
Lol, Harper, we're at 34.
"Nothing ventured, nothing gained." Sorry if I repeated that one.

Harper, I have pics of my Fairy Garden and my Heather Garden in my journal. at least enough to give you an idea.

Jackie, we get heron. we've also had great egret, although they don't stay long. no deer. there's no cover for them near the lake. the folks at the outskirts of the development may get them. we don't even get squirrels because there are no mature trees. just the geese and I enjoy them. I had visions of iris growing, too. I think I just need to put a little fencing around them in the spring. the only plants the geese bother are those that look like grass. that's all they eat.

..egrets, I've had a few, but then again too few to mention...

OMG! We know you're alert!

Dave, I mentioned them (I was gonna just be cool, but I gotta say it...that was really funny)

LOL< Dave
Gram, terrific pictures, you sure have done a lot of work!!
The fencing should work...I love iris too.

Gram, I've been heron' about your egrets.

Dave, now you're pushing it. should have left funny enough alone. don't give up your day job LOL I been heron' you're pretty good at that.

Yuk, yuk, yuk. Gotta admit, they were both funny.

Dave is just "fishing" for compliments.