Quotes

[firefighter]

"A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." ~ Saint Basil 

[Mikey]

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In the tunnels uptown[/size]

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The Rat's own dream guns him down[/size]

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As shots echo down them hallways in the night[/size]

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No one watches when the ambulance pulls away[/size]

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Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light[/size]

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Outside the street's on fire[/size]

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In a real death waltz[/size]

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Between what's flesh and what's fantasy[/size]

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And the poets down here[/size]

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Don't write nothing at all[/size]

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They just stand back and let it all be[/size]

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And in the quick of the night[/size]

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They reach for their moment[/size]

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And try to make an honest stand[/size]

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But they wind up wounded[/size]

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Not even dead[/size]

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Tonight in Jungleland[/size]

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[Sable Renae]

"Give me the chance to lose YOUR Business"  Unknown

[Mikey]

"If we're closed and you're in a hurry, just shove the money under the door." - Blackburn T. Garrett, owner operator Garrett's Ice Cream, San Francisco CA (1966)

[Mikey]

It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them. - Tiberius

[firefighter]

"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge." ~ Thomas Carlyle

[firefighter]

“They do not love that do not show their love!” ~ William Shakespeare

[Sonja]

A banana is 105 calories.
A shot of Vodka is 80 calories.
Choose wisely.

[MrTShirt]

The secret of happiness is the realization that life is a gift, not a right.

  -  Unknown

(Copied from a courtesan's twitter page.)

[Mikey]

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't fart and chew gum at the same time. - Lyndon B. Johnson

[Mikey]

You can't please everyone, you gotta please yourself. - Ricky Nelson

[firefighter]

Arnaud Amaury or Arnaud Amalric was a Cistercian Abbot who was in charge of the Crusader army that sacked Béziers in the Albigensian Crusade 1209 to 1229.  He distinguished himself by the zeal with which he incited men by his preaching to crusade against the enemy.  Arnaul Amalric is most remembered for allegedly advising a Crusader how to distinguish the Cathars from the Catholics because the soldier was worried about killing orthodox Catholics along with the heretics during the sack of the Cathar stronghold of Béziers.  Arnaud Amalric responded, "Caedite eos. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius." ("Kill them all. For the Lord knows those that are His.")

This is the origin of the modern phrase, "Kill them all and let God sort them out."

[firefighter]

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." ~ Albert Einstein

[firefighter]

"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?" ~ Marquis de Sade

[firefighter]

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” ~ Buddha

[firefighter]

“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.” ~ Buddha

[firefighter]

“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” ~ Buddha

[firefighter]

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring!" ~ Marilyn Monroe

[firefighter]

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection!" ~ Dalai Lama

[Mikey]

I really don't care with whom you sleep. I just care what kind of a decent human being you are. -  Betty White

[Mikey]

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. - Ursula K. Le Guin