Discussion Topic |
|
This thread has been locked |
Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
|
|
Oct 24, 2014 - 05:51pm PT
|
On that note, I will have another.Thank You, Please.
|
|
divad
Trad climber
wmass
|
|
Nov 21, 2014 - 06:12pm PT
|
"Perhaps we're intruding, this seems to be a private beach"
-anonymous GI on Omaha Beach, June 6, 1944
|
|
rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 13, 2014 - 08:00am PT
|
" if you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together" African proverb
|
|
rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2014 - 09:13pm PT
|
"the line separating good from evil passes not through states, nor between political parties - but right through every human heart."
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
|
|
MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
|
|
Dec 20, 2014 - 09:23pm PT
|
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
--Henry David Thoreau
|
|
coolrockclimberguy69
climber
|
|
Dec 20, 2014 - 09:27pm PT
|
People ask me what kind of bass player I am, and I tell em, "I'm D. Boon's bass player" - Mike Watt
edit: just realized this monday is the 29th anniversary of the death of d. boon. wierd.
|
|
ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
|
|
Jan 18, 2015 - 12:46am PT
|
The only human institution that rejects progress is the cemetery.
~ Harold Wilson
|
|
Mark Force
Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
|
|
Jan 18, 2015 - 12:58am PT
|
"Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is that I'm stupid and I make bad decisions!"
~ Anon
"I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it."
~ Attributed to a number of individuals including Thomas Jefferson, probably Mark Twain
|
|
MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
|
|
Jan 18, 2015 - 07:43am PT
|
"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind."
Albert Szent-Gyorgi
|
|
MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
|
|
Jan 21, 2015 - 08:20pm PT
|
"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
– John Rogers
|
|
justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
|
|
Feb 28, 2015 - 05:39pm PT
|
Bump.
|
|
Lollie
Social climber
I'm Lolli.
|
|
Mar 14, 2015 - 09:15am PT
|
Judgement is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.
|
|
coolrockclimberguy69
climber
|
|
Mar 14, 2015 - 05:14pm PT
|
"People die. This is the fact the world desperately tries to hide from us from birth. Long after you find out the truth about sex and Santa Claus, this other myth endures, this one about how you'll always get rescued at the last second and if not, your death will at least mean something and there'll be somebody there to hold your hand and cry over you. All of society is built to prop up that lie, the whole world a big, noisy puppet show meant to distract us from the fact that at the end, you'll die, and you'll probably be alone."
|
|
MisterE
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
|
|
Mar 14, 2015 - 05:18pm PT
|
"Find what you love and let it kill you."
--Charles Bukowski
|
|
Gorgeous George
Trad climber
Los Angeles, California
|
|
Mar 15, 2015 - 05:43pm PT
|
Heard this in an old movie the other night:
"My Father used to tell me not to chase after women, or busses, they'll both leave you behind!"
|
|
k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
|
|
Mar 15, 2015 - 06:59pm PT
|
Two from my best buddy, Isom:
He's so dumb, he couldn't poor piss out of a boot even if the instructions were written on the heel.
If it costs a nickle to sh#t, I'd have to throw up.
|
|
Gary
Social climber
From A Buick 6
|
|
Apr 29, 2015 - 11:19am PT
|
On Mikhail Tal by his first wife:
Misha was so ill-equipped for living... When he travelled to a tournament, he couldn't even pack his own suitcase... He didn't even know how to turn on the gas for cooking. If I had a headache, and there happened to be no one home but him, he would fall into a panic: "How do I make a hot-water bottle?" And when I got behind the wheel of a car, he would look at me as though I were a visitor from another planet. Of course, if he had made some effort, he could have learned all of this. But it was all boring to him. He just didn't need to. A lot of people have said that if Tal had looked after his health, if he hadn't led such a dissolute life... and so forth. But with people like Tal, the idea of "if only" is just absurd. He wouldn't have been Tal then.
|
|
Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
|
|
"Looking westwards we had a life
and death pledge to go to the mountains."
-Xu Xiake
|
|
rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
|
|
Topic Author's Reply - May 16, 2015 - 04:36pm PT
|
“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.” ~ Benjamin Franklin
|
|
|
SuperTopo on the Web
|