Share Your Favorite Quotes/Poetry

[PHO127]

The Ripley Retort, believe it or not.

[janecallanan]

Must be some truth in it then.

[DMZ-LT]

I put one in my wallet in 1962 and it's still there , waiting. Maybe I should try another line ?

[janecallanan]

Maybe you shouldn't let the woman know that it's from 1962. Sure sign that SOMETHING"S going to fail, and I don't think it's the line!

[Seascamp]

Possibly one of the more interesting collections of sayings, humor, wit and down and out glibness was to be found inscribed on the helmets of those in Vietnam. Most Troops and Marines had steel pots with cloth camo covers while most of us Sailors had simple gray or OD painted helmets. That being the case, ours were easier to move on to a new thought for the day by erasing a grease pencil inscription and doing something new. The ones I remember putting on mine were ?You?, ?You Magoo?, ?Hey, I just found this hat so no shooting?, Excretum Taurus Vincent Cerebrum? ( BS beats logic), and ?Ubi Dubi Tatus Flagalatus? ( roughly, when in doubt, hang it out). The Navy was a real prig about writing on things so I shifted to some cobbled-up Latin phrases and represented them as ?Prayers, Sir, just prayers? and they let me be, mostly.

Anyway, once in a while on the VN Vets section someone will ask ?what was on your helmet? and things can get a bit crazy from that point on, but some really funny stuff comes up.

Scamp

[philly]

Seascamp,

Thank you for sharing. Tell us what crazy sayings come up in the VN Vet Section? I bet they are quite funny.

Take care,

Philly

[philly]

And a youth said, "Speak to us of Friendship."

Your friend is your needs answered.

He is your field which you sow with love and reap with thanksgiving.

And he is your board and your fireside.

For you come to him with your hunger, and you seek him for peace.

When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the "nay" in your own mind, nor do you withhold the "ay."

And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart;

For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed.

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;

For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.

And let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

For love that seeks aught but the disclosure of its own mystery is not love but a net cast forth: and only the unprofitable is caught.

And let your best be for your friend.

If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also.

For what is your friend that you should seek him with hours to kill?

Seek him always with hours to live.

For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness.

And in the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures.

For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.