Really Cool Quotes

[moose eater]

One of the Founders of the U.S. (can't remember which one) is supposed to have said this:

"If man is basically good, then he does not need a government. If he is basically evil, then God help Him should he get one."

Then, during one of several motorcycle trips down the Alaska Hwy on one of two Electraglides, probably about 24 years ago (+/-),decked out with a 48-qt cooler on the rear rack, and part-way through a really nice adventure, I met a biker and his friend who were working on a road crew in very rural Yukon Territory village.

We talked over the backs of our booth seats as I ate the lunch I'd stopped for, after they'd finished their meal, and agreed to meet near the dump site south of town to have a toke of some hash; we both had some, though mine was stashed on my bike, in my gear.

We met up and smoked his stash; a very nice, potent, smooth, darker brown 'shish.

I got unusually wasted.

As we prepared to go our own separate ways, me to the south, to head over to northern Manitoba on a visit, and he and his partner on his pan head, back north, to the village they were working near, he turned to me and said, as we parted,....

"Stay vertical..."

Uh huh.....

 

[Stoner4Life]

 

[ozzieAI]

"Stay vertical..."

Uh huh.....

we used to say "keep it upright..."

 

[Stoner4Life]

we used to say "keep it upright..."

when out riding, 'keep the shiny side up'

 

[slaveplanet]

censorship is telling a man he cant have a steak just because a baby cant chew it...

 

[slaveplanet]

we do not deal much in facts when we are contemplating ourselves

 

[Water-]

“We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and

least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.”

J.R.R. Tolkien

 

[mayorofthdesert]

"Stay vertical..."

when I bought my first bike at 18 i was washing it in the driveway & a neighbor, crusty old harley guy, came walking up looking very serious. i thought he was going to give me shit about buying a honda. he said sternly "welcome to the world of motorcycles, your life is now in your own hands. now there s no such thing as someone else's fault. if someone does something stupid and you weren't anticipating it, that's YOUR fault. i'll come to your funeral and tell everyone it wasn't your fault & that'll make it all better, right?" i remember that every time I strap on my helmet.

 

[Spaventa]

“History would be a wonderful thing, if it were only true.” Leo Tolstoy

"It is easier to fool people than convince them they have been fooled." attributed to Mark Twain

“For what profits a man if he gains the whole world but loses his own soul” Mark 8:36

 

[Rubber Chicken]

Not exactly 'cool' qutoes, but some really top shelf-buffoon from Ye Olde Orange one-

(Part 1)

-"What a crowd, what a turnout." —Trump to victims and survivors of Hurricane Harvey in Texas, August 29, 2017

-'I think I am actually humble. I think I’m much more humble than you would understand.'

-'My father gave me a small loan of a million dollars.'

-(On Puerto Rico) 'This is an island surrounded by water, big water, ocean water.'

-Well, the one thing I would say–and I say this to people–I never realized how big it was. Everything’s so (unintelligible) like, you know, the orders are so massive. I was talking to–Number one, there’s great responsibility. When it came time to, as an example, send out the 59 missiles, the Tomahawks in Syria, I’m saying to myself, “You know, this is more than just like, 79 (sic) missiles. This is death that’s involved,” because people could have been killed!

-The financial cost of everything is so massive, every agency. This is thousands of times bigger, the United States, than the biggest company in the world. … It’s massive! And every agency is, like, bigger than any company. So, you know, I really just see the bigness of it all.

 

[Water-]

“For in politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.”

― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

 

[moose eater]

Dealing weed and riding motorcycles; both will cause a person to be constantly alert as to others' intentions or movements... if they wish to remain in the game.

-Nothing- has made me a more defensive driver, anticipating others' moves, like riding a motorcycle cross-country. Been doing it since I was 16, though my last cross-country ride was nearly 18 years ago now.. maybe 16-17; can't recall.

Given any horizon on the highway, asking one's self in re. to those present in that horizon's view, "What's the goofiest move one of these folks might make?" it's alarming how often the speculative answer pre-defines reality to come.

"PEOPLE!! Can't eat 'em. Can't live with 'em!!"

when I bought my first bike at 18 i was washing it in the driveway & a neighbor, crusty old harley guy, came walking up looking very serious. i thought he was going to give me shit about buying a honda. he said sternly "welcome to the world of motorcycles, your life is now in your own hands. now there s no such thing as someone else's fault. if someone does something stupid and you weren't anticipating it, that's YOUR fault. i'll come to your funeral and tell everyone it wasn't your fault & that'll make it all better, right?" i remember that every time I strap on my helmet.

 

[pokearound]

“Wilderness, wilderness...We scarcely know what we mean by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have not been irreparably stunned, deadened, numbed by the caterwauling of commerce, the sweating scramble for profit and domination.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire


"The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own."
-Frank Zappa

 

[Capt.Ahab]

Here's one I hadnt heard for a while but someone said it the other day.

It's "darker than two midnights in a brown jug".

 

[armedoldhippy]

"PEOPLE!! Can't eat 'em. Can't live with 'em!!"

actually, parts of some people are edible...

 

[superx]

You can not polish a shit,

But you can roll it in glitter......

 

[Rubber Chicken]

Actually, you can polish shit....

I saw it on Mythbusters.

 

[superx]

Actually, you can polish shit....

I saw it on Mythbusters.

Which was ostrich and lion dung...

Try doing it with human shit, and report back

 

[Rubber Chicken]

Which was ostrich and lion dung...

Try doing it with human shit, and report back

I'll pass..... but i can fed-ex you a deuce to try yourself if you like?

 

[Water-]

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
Friedrich Nietzsche