What's Your Fav Quote?? (Page 8) I K R: When British general, Sir Charles James Napier, was faced with a crowd of angry Hindu men complaining that Sati (burning widowed women) was part of their culture and should not outlawed he replied........ "Be it so. This burning of widows is your custom; prepare the funeral pile. But my nation has also a custom. When men burn women alive we hang them, and confiscate all their property. My carpenters shall therefore erect gibbets on which to hang all concerned when the widow is consumed. Let us all act according to national customs."  calybonos: "They's baout thutty slant-eyed rats in hyar!" - My cousin, Cletusbonos the exterminator. (Post deleted by staff )  (Post deleted by staff ) (Post deleted by staff )  Wonderbunny: Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. - Paul Valery It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out; it's the grain of sand in your shoe. - Robert W. Service Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon When the Last Tree Is Cut Down, the Last Fish Eaten, and the Last Stream Poisoned, You Will Realize That You Cannot Eat Money - Alanis Obomsawin  wayne elliott: "I had two secretaries - one to answer my fan mail and the other to send locks of hair to my admirers. I had to let them both go, poor dears. One has writers cramp and the other is quite bald." Oscar Wilde.  psychodelish: If you see me comin', better step aside A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died One fist of iron, the other of steel If the right one don't a-get you Then the left one will ''16 tons" funny I actually knew something about this from something I did during middle school music. I had to reference wiki to brush up on facts as they have them. most often Merle Travis gets credit for writing the original song but it carries with it some controversy. some of the lines are a collaboration of sorts, borrowed quotes from actual coal miners to be more specific. the controversy lies in where another man named George Davis stakes a claim in it. only his version was titled "nine to ten tons". 16 tons sounds better to me as its familiar. plus thats how johnny cash sings it  tallboy61: "my arse! spoken by Jerry Knox of Belfast to an electrical engineer who asked him to dig faster . Genius. Andeligt: And one that I have read: Before you go into battle, decide if that is the hill you want to die on.  Woodstock_: " I think that one of these days... you're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there " J.D Salinger .. Catcher in the Rye angpd: Loves a game of give and take sometimes less and sometimes more but you know it's almost over once you've started keeping score ME (Post deleted by staff )  lummox: "I'm not me, i'm my brother" ~ fraud suspect. "Stick ya hands up ya bum" ~ 60's western b movie.  Evelyn99: What’s matter to you on your final deathbed with the doctor giving last call should matter to you every single day | Books Chat Room Similar Conversations |
