"Where did they teach you to talk like this? At some Panama City sailor-wanna-hump-hump bar, or is this getaway day and your last shot at his whiskey? Sell crazy someplace else . . . we're all stocked up here." Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) As Good As It Gets
"Uncle Junior fell in a whiskey vat last week. Some men tried to pull him out, but he fought them off and drowned. We had him cremated and he burned for three days."
“The Man in the Arena”
"It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
Teddy Roosevelt ,"Citizenship in a Republic,"
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
For me, life is like a box of chocolates...oh, wait...not me. Maybe I heard that somewhere. Anyway, it sounded cool at the time. When I met my wife, Mary aka Foolnected, there were several things that attracted me to her, some of which will not be mentioned here to " protect the innocent":
- She is the most genuinely wonderful person I've ever met. Never judges another, but she still has the courage to speak out, though her voice may tremble. I admired that...and still do. Courage not Bravado. The ability to do the right thing though completely terrified. A lioness, but still fun to pet...
- She thinks I'm cool. At first this made me question her judgement...
- She loves poker. She's a student of the game, and for those who've played her, I know I will get an "AMEN"...
- She loves God without being "preachy", She loves her country regardless of any one leader's decisions and she loves her family unconditionally...
- But most of all, I love her because my heart didn't give me a chance to decide, it just decided....
- And, oh yeah, she's sexy as hell...
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