Let's Post Some Quotes

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•“It never hurts for potential opponents to think you’re more than a little stupid and can hardly count all the money in your hip pocket, much less hold on to it.” (Amarillo Slim)

Peace

g under p

I'm guilty of this....

•Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead. (Jackie Robinson)

Peace

hedonist

Oh man, I miss the online poker tourneys I used to play!

Speaking of which, from the great one:

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.
- Doyle Brunson

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•My old pappy always used to say, there is no more deeply satisfying religious experience... than cheatin' on a cheater. (Maverick in the movie Maverick)

•"Stop cheating!" the dealer told the card player.
"I'm not!" claimed the player.
"You must be," said the dealer. "That is not the hand that I dealt you."

Peace

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hedonist wrote:

Oh man, I miss the online poker tourneys I used to play!

Speaking of which, from the great one:

A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.
- Doyle Brunson

I agree like that year Moneymaker won it all...remember that man he was on a mission in the MAIN EVENT with some of those bluffs.

Peace

titchinello

one i heard yesterday... something like

lies are just words and stories, its the true heart that matters

dimitrispearljam

"cos bitching is a piece of art..everyone want his own painting.." ~ dimitrispearljam

Bandog

"Once you've wrestled, everything else in life is easy."
- Dan Gable

hedonist

A few from Churchill. What a brilliant, wise, hilarious and self-deprecating man.

So much of this is applicable in our times, too.


The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

hedonist

Wear your grudge like a crown of negativity.
Calculate what we will or will not tolerate.
Desperate to control all and everything.
Unable to forgive your scarlet lettermen.

Clutch it like a cornerstone, otherwise it all comes down.
Justify denials and grip it to the lonesome end.
Clutch it like a cornerstone, otherwise it all comes down.
Terrified of being wrong.

Ultimatum prison cell.

Saturn ascends, choose one or ten.

Hang on or be humbled again.

- Maynard James Keenan


**good night for good music out here

hedonist

Mitch! Love the fuck outta this dude.

I was walking down the street with my friend and he said, "I hear music", as if there is any other way you can take it in. You're not special, that's how I receive it too. I tried to taste it but it did not work.

hedonist

Laws control the lesser man...right conduct controls the greater one. - Mark Twain

hedonist

Me too, grandma. Me too!

I loved this film (Parenthood - even though I'm not a parent - but I am a daughter).

The quote, which is so much better seen than read, reminds me of Jeff in Single Video Theory - to paraphrase, "not what to feel, but just to feel".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1h_hmdVJAc

mikalina

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true....

Buddha

Cosmo

"Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill"
- Proverb

Cosmo

"Those whom demand respect are typically the ones least likely to deserve it... me thinks."
-cosmo-

mikalina

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
― E.E. Cummings

Godfather.

In 1994, he(Johnny Ramone) and Linda moved to Los Angeles, where he spent the final decade of his life among the next generation of hard rockers, some of who, like Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam and Kirk Hammett from Metallica, became his best friends.-Linda Ramone



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pandora

"Ask yourself: Have you been kind today?
Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world."

Annie Lennox

Cosmo

Godfather. wrote:

In 1994, he(Johnny Ramone) and Linda moved to Los Angeles, where he spent the final decade of his life among the next generation of hard rockers, some of who, like Eddie Vedder from Pearl Jam and Kirk Hammett from Metallica, became his best friends.-Linda Ramone

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If only more people understood what Johnny understood... that you can have very differing political opinions and stick to them. It does not mean that people with differing political views are 'the enemy', 'hate America', 'want to destroy America' and you 'should not come to compromises with'. They are simply, Americans with a diferent political view point than yours. We are all still... Americans.
P.S. You can visit Johnny's grave site in Los Angeles and say, 'Hello'.