What I want to know is why you put that quote up Ray.

To me it's a little yogi bearish, but heck it's also true.

"Hey hey Boo-boo! The reason I get all the pic-a-nick baskets and never get caught is because I'm smarter than the average bear!"

In other words, stating something that one would typically think is obvious in such a way that it comes across as "new" and sounding deeply profound.

Do quotes have to be overly nuanced in order to be noteworthy? Isn't that the same criticism given against the Book of Mormon? It's all been said in the  Bible... just rephrased here and there... not worth reading... just read the Bible.

--Ray

"August 13, 1856, Wednesday, Florence, Nebraska Territory. Today we continued preparations for starting. Evening we held [a] meeting in camp. Brother Willie exhorted the Saints to go forward regardless of suffering even to death. After he had spoken, he gave me the opportunity of speaking. I said to him that if I spoke, I must speak my mind, let it cut where it would. He said certainly to do so.

"I then related to the Saints the hardships that we should have to endure. I said that we were liable to have to wade in snow up to our knees and shovel at night, lay ourselves in a thin blanket and lie on the frozen ground without a bed. [I said it] was not like having a wagon that we could go into and wrap ourselves in as much as we liked and lie down. No, said I, we are without wagons, destitute of clothing, and could not carry it if we had it. We must go as we are.

"The handcart system I do not condemn. I think it preferable to unbroken oxen and inexperienced teamsters. The lateness of the season was my only objection to leaving this point for the mountains at this time. I spoke warmly upon the subject, but spoke truth.

"Elder Willie then spoke again in reply to what I had said, evidently dissatisfied, and said that the God he served was a God that was able to save to the uttermost,... and he wanted no Job's comforters with him.

"I then said that what I had said was truth, and if Elder Willie does not want me to act in the place where I am, he is at full liberty to place another man in my stead, and I would not think hard of him for it, but I did not care what he said about Job's comforters. I had spoken nothing but the truth, and he and others knew it."

--journal of Levi Savage, Jr., 13 August 1856. Appointed captain over the second hundred of the Willie handcart company three days before it left Iowa City, about a month before this entry... (he is my great-great uncle, and a man whom I hope to meet someday as he is a great example of honesty, faith, loyalty, and dedication to the Gospel in spite of injustices he experienced throughout his life from fellow Saints)

"Remember it's not over until its over"

"You know the future just ain't what it used to be"

Yogi Bera

(I think that last one's deeply profound...)

Me, too.

In fact, I was going to comment on the first one and then you posted another one and it made me forget what I was going to say.

"I'll never go to hell. I repent too damn fast!"

J. Golden Kimball

Once about every 3 or 4 weeks, this phenomenon will occur at my house. The two oldest will be at school and all three home-kiddos will be asleep at the same time. It's like lining up the planets or something. I usually am overcome with the shock and I just utterly waste the time... I need to get a grip!



"The way will be lighter, the worries will be fewer, the confrontations will be less difficult if we cultivate a spirit of happiness."
Gordon B. Hinckley - Oct. Conf 2002

Tender mercies and an AK-47. 

We're supposed to build our own homes now?? Great...

Or does this mean the home of our spirits? Hmm....

Yes, yes... and eternity is not short, therefore... long. Must be big boat for long voyage, no?

It never ceases to amaze me how clever doctors can be.

Syrupy sweet, Polly. I'm lickin' my screen.

Polly, you're awesome. You balance out the people like me.