And I Quote

Its been forever....but school has been keeping me on my toes. However I've been reading a really funny book this week "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome (why he had the same first and last name, I'm not sure). Its about these 3 guys (and a dog) who decide to take a boating trip on the Thames (its in the 1880s), and the adventures they have then, as well as stories they tell each other while boating (actually over half the book is made up of these stories). I've been writing down some funny/good quotes from it....and since I have a lack of anything else to post, I'll share some of them with you here:

"We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without."

"Each person has what he doesn't want, and the other people have what he does want."

Okay, that's it for the words of wisdom...here are the funny ones (which far out number the ones with a moral :p)

"That tooth brush of mine will be the death of me, I know."

"But who wants to be foretold the weather? It is bad enough when it comes, without our having the misery of knowing about it before hand."

"In that moment I forgave all my friends and relations for their wickedness and cussedness, and I blessed them."

"The most exciting is [your boat] being towed by girls. It is a sensation nobody ought to miss. It takes 3 girls to tow always; 2 hold the rope and the other one runs round and round and giggles."

"I asked my cousin if she thought it could be a dream, and she replied that she was just about to ask me the same question; and then we both wondered if we were both asleep, and if so, who was the real one that was dreaming, and who was the one that was only a dream; it got quite interesting."

"How good one feels when one is full--how satisfied with ourselves and with the world!"

"I yearn for the good old days, when you could go about and tell people what you thought of them with a hatchet and a bow and arrows."

"Then we cleaned up and put everything straight (a continual labor, which was beginning to afford me a pretty clear insight into a question that has often posed me--namely, how a woman with the work of only one house, manages to pass away her time)."

[Harris is swimming and suddenly someone grips him by the neck and puts him underwater. When he is released and turns around the "someone" says] "'I really beg your pardon, but I took you for a friend of mine!' Harris thought it was lucky for him the man had not mistaken him for a relation, or he would probably have been drowned outright."

"The mildest tempered people, when on land, become violent and blood thirsty when in a boat."

LOL

And.....that's all I've got :)

Oh wait no, that's not all I've got. Here's another quote--a haiku, actually. I got it from the Wall Street Journal....the guy who wrote it is a presidential candidate in Brussels, who apparently suffers from chrome-dome-syndrome.

Hair blows in the wind

After years there is still wind

Sadly no more hair

-Herman Van Rompuy

I don't know his political standpoint, but gosh darnit, he writes good poetry! And that's what counts right? So I think I might just vote for him if I lived in Brussels!!