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26-02-2009, 19:55
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Location: Traverse City, Mi
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Although I love the "What a ride" quote that Celestialsailor used, the one that goes well with it is from Ashley Montagu.
"The idea is to die young as late as possible".
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26-02-2009, 20:30
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#62
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Oz
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My favourite quotes are ' It is amazing what you can accomplish if you don't try to take credit for it'.
and 'life is what causes the collapse of the wave function'
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26-02-2009, 22:56
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Plimmerton, New Zealand
Boat: Samsara, a Ross 930
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He who would have much to do,
Let him take a boat
Or a woman
(Old English Proverb -
the joke is that man generally does both!)
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26-02-2009, 23:51
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Paradise Cay
Boat: Hylas 47
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I think that "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than have to have a frontal lobotamy" was originally by Dorothy Parker, along with a ton of other originals, like, "Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses". And, after a rival waited for her to enter the doorway first and said, "Age before beauty!", Dorothy Parker quipped, "Pearls before swine!".
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27-02-2009, 04:42
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running down a dream
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Florida
Boat: cape dory 30 MKII
Posts: 3,115
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it's the home of the brave and the land of the free .. where the less you know the better off you'll be.
Warren Zevon
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27-02-2009, 04:47
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#66
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Moderator Emeritus
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Chesapeake Bay
Boat: Bristol 35 Bellesa
Posts: 13,564
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"Heisenberg may have slept here"
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Sing to a sailor's courage, Sing while the elbows bend,
A ruby port your harbor, Raise three sheets to the wind.
......................-=Krynnish drinking song=-
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27-02-2009, 04:59
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#67
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: On the boat
Boat: Valiant 50
Posts: 509
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Today's Rooster is tomorrow's Feather Duster.
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The light at the end of the tunnel are no longer the headlights of the oncoming train. .....yippee
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27-02-2009, 05:17
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Chesapeake Bay
Boat: Sabre 28-2
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Quote:
Originally Posted by gonesail
it's the home of the brave and the land of the free .. where the less you know the better off you'll be.
Warren Zevon
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and another from the late, great Zevon:
"Love conquers all. You can't start it like a car. You can't stop it with a gun."
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27-02-2009, 05:25
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#69
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Currently liveaboard -Ensenada
Boat: Catalina 30
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I finally found the right religion........again.
Mark Twain
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27-02-2009, 08:32
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Chesapeake Bay
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"There is in every village a torch: the schoolmaster — and an extinguisher: the parson."
– Victor Hugo
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
– W. Somerset Maugham
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27-02-2009, 09:32
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Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: Calgary, AB, Canada
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sneuman
"There is in every village a torch: the schoolmaster — and an extinguisher: the parson."
– Victor Hugo
"Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit."
– W. Somerset Maugham
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As a retired teacher, I like the first.
The second reminds of of Oscar Wilde's "Nothing succeeds like excess."
Jack
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As I sail, I praise God, and care not. (Luke Foxe)
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27-02-2009, 10:44
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: West Palm Beach, Florida
Boat: Gulfstar 44 Sloop
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"The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea." Isak Dinesen
"Wherever you go, there you are." Unknown
"Any port in a storm."
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27-02-2009, 11:01
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Senior Cruiser
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Thunder Bay, Ontario - 48-29N x 89-20W
Boat: (Cruiser Living On Dirt)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by starfish62
... "Wherever you go, there you are." Unknown"...
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"So, the cross is always ready and waits for you everywhere. You cannot escape it no matter where you run, for wherever you go you are burdened with yourself. Wherever you go, there you are." ~ by Thomas A. Kempis, "Imitation of Christ" circa. A.D. 1440
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"If you didn't have the time or money to do it right in the first place, when will you get the time/$ to fix it?"
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27-02-2009, 13:00
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Join Date: Sep 2006
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"HOLY CRAP!" mayor of Hiroshima, 1945.
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27-02-2009, 16:39
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#75
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Sweden
Boat: Between boats
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations." -Winston Churchill
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