Do you have any sayings you like? james

-- Anonymous, September 24, 2000

Answers

I've got lots of them so here's a couple. #1-A woman has the last word in any argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. #2-A married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use two people remembering the same thing. Good at Ducking

-- Anonymous, September 24, 2000

I'm not overly religious, but I do like the following quote or saying from Hebrews 11:1

"Faith is the SUBSTANCE of things hoped for...the EVIDENCE of things not seen." (emphasis mine)

A friend ridiculed this until I pointed out to him that his cat, when it wants to go out, opens the door by sitting and staring at it. He laughed and then agreed with me. Listen, this simple saying is a lot deeper than you might imagine.

-- Anonymous, September 24, 2000

A part-time musician is one who keeps their day job. A full-time musician is one whose significant other works.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2000

Hey, Bubba. I find that quote hard to swallow. I mean, it SOUNDS great, but in the strictest sense (and we all know that Mondays are Strict Days) I find it the exact opposite of deep ... I would never use the words 'substance' or 'evidence' in connection with the word 'faith'.

Faith, to me, means a belief in something which has not been substantiated, something for which there is no evidence. If you re- phrase the original quote, it says the same: Faith is the substance of things which have no substance, the evidence of things which have no evidence. Which is circular. Faith is a manifestation of something which is not manifest: it is a symptom of an invisible disease.

It is emotion without foundation.

It's a word which is often misused. If a friend asks you to have faith, any forbearance on your part is posited on the grounds of that friendship, any forgiveness, or patience is a result of your long association. In other words - you have a reason to believe. If you lend money to a stranger, you are not exhibiting faith: you either make a snap judgement that this person can be trusted (you like his face, you like his manner) or you do so from a fundamental belief that people deserve a chance.

Your friend's cat is not waiting out of faith, but because it has learnt that this behaviour will elicit a certain response. It has nothing to do with faith.

I've always struggled to understand why faith is held up as a virtue. Why celebrate faith? A dogged belief in something which you have no reason to believe in could be described in many circumstances as idiocy, couldn't it?

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2000

Wow. You are INtense on faith, huh? Maybe it's a mystical thing that's hard to grasp. I like it because it implies that believing something will happen helps make it happen. It's the opposite of defeatism.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2000

OK, well, I understand where you're coming from, but I'm still not clear how the age-old belief that 'if you wish hard enough, it'll happen', is the opposite of defeatism. Isn't that simply an excuse to sit around and do nothing while you light candles and dream?

And you're right - faith and mysticism are intricately entwined. That doesn't make either of them any better, though.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2000

I think it was Patsy Cline who said, "People in hell want ice water. That don't mean they get it." (picture that said with a Southern, genteel yet menacing tone) I like saying that a lot at work when people get too demanding.

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2000

Hey James, I got one for ya.

"Excuses are like assholes--Everybody's got one."

How about:

"Even the blind squirell finds the acorn once in a while."

Man, could I go on and on...Good topic.

bw

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2000

Here's one my wife likes:

"Men are just like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over 'em for thirty years."

-- Anonymous, September 25, 2000

Hoo, Bubba! I'm going to start calling the man unit Linoleum... Thanks for the laugh!

-- Anonymous, September 26, 2000

When I was growing up and money was tight, my relatives use to say they didn't have a pot to piss in. I've never heard it outside Ohio so maybe it's a regional saying.

-- Anonymous, October 01, 2000

Oh, not having a pot to piss in is not limited to the midwest. My relatives are New Englanders and have been saying that for years.

My husband's family uses "too poor to pay attention" on a regular basis. "Crazy as a bessy-bug" is a good one, too, but no one ever can tell me what a bessy-bug really is. And my mom's classic phrase is, "you'll be chasing the birds for that someday", in response to hearing of something we squandered. I use "not the sharpest knife in the drawer" regarding one of my stupider dogs, and for some reason that makes my vet just crack up.

-- Anonymous, October 02, 2000

There but for the grace of god go I.

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2000

My favorite saying now (because I'm getting so old, hahaha) is "a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away....". James

-- Anonymous, October 03, 2000