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Extraordinary Quotes by Ordinary People

Quotes just about in the order I get them, starting with the most recent:

 

 

"When you think you're number one it's humbling to know you're closer to zero than number two" - LTH

"Some argue because they thrive on it" - LTH

"Bravery is the reaction a man has because he has a good heart" - LTH

"Some people have the personality of a toothache" - LTH

"There's something convincing about the view down an open end of a gun barrel of a gun you're not holding" - LTH

"She burns the house down every time she gets a paycheck" - LTH

"People Hate seeing someone else getting away with something that they, themselves, try to get way with and can't." - LTH

"Most women think they really have three boobs.  Two on their chest and the man in their life."  - LTH

"Knowing God is Liberty from the inside out" - Lisa

"Don't get any on ya" - Don

"Less is more... more or less" - LTH

"It's so cool, if it didn't exist you'd have to invent it." David Oberbeck

"Once on the lips, forever on the hips" - Rick Lane

"You never lose your girlfriend, you only lose your turn." - Jim Richards

"Everybody dies, but not everybody lives."  Don't be afraid to live life to it's fullest..insert your own definition here_____!" Jan at Wild Breed Biker Stuff

 

"No, I can't do anything else, there isn't anything else that I could be qualified to do" PB after being criticized for an opinion.

 

"What's NOT the matter with you?" - PDC

 

"I appear calm on the outside - but on the inside, I'm stranglin' somebody " - Linda M.

 

"I always have to tell you what you need to do!" - overheard a wife telling her husband - his response, a sheepish nod - yes.

 

"Really?  You  don't want them?" Steve T. in reference to Mike's french fries at lunch.

"A man's handshake is meant to convey respect not power... yet his handshake is powerful for that matter." LTH

 

"It's not the act of God that brings people together, it's how people help each other and not by waiting on the government to help them."  - someone in New Orleans

 

"Well, plug my heart up"  Bob K.

 

9-11, 3000 lives

War on terror, billions of dollars

Homeland Security, billions more

Unsecured Borders, worthless

 

"Just when you think he's lost it all, he still has more to lose."

 

"Half the things in this world take more doing than it does knowledge."

 

On insurance companies - "They're bettin' you need it, you're bettin' you don't.  - AE

 

He went off the top rope one too many times - Jeff

 

"Most things in life take more doing than it does knowledge." - LTH

 

"About as sharp as a rubber dick" - AE

 

"I kicked you in the nuts again, didn't I?  How do I keep doing that?" - Josh Oyler

 

"Don't be so hard on yourself, you called me, didn't you?" - Dan Ballard

 

" 'bout as close as a biker gets to jewelry"  LTH , not a fact, just sounded like a good quote for the time I used it.

 

"You would lie when the truth would do" - Peter Boyles

 

Sign on Show Bike embossed in braille: "Do Not Touch"

 

"There are people and then there are wackos posing as people" - my cousin Alice M.

 

"I can run a lot faster scared than you can pissed off" - Brian, right after the boss told him to make sure he did a

 job right or he'd kill him.  Brian also carries his money and ID in a Gideon New Testament pocket Bible.

 

"You only change when it hurts bad enough" - Peter Boyles

 

"Boys get mad quicker but girls stay mad longer" - Charlott

 

"You ain't getting a virgin, I've been beat before" - Mel's response to a threat

 

"It'll turn into beer when given the opportunity" - Kevin, referring to anything liquid

 

"What year is this? 1967?" - the timeless Alan E.

 

"If you don't like the way I drive, stay off the sidewalk" - old saying, yet still valid because of bikers like Jerry

 

"Welcome to America where everyone is get screwed but no one is really
enjoying it." my cousin Alice

 

Buddhist quote submitted by my cousin Alice:

Namaste: I honor the place in you
in which the entire Universe dwells.

I honor the place in you
which is of Love, of Truth, of Light and of Peace.

When you are in that place in you,
and I am in that place in me,
we are One.
 

"but he's my bro but carry your own ass" - Jess

Our education system, based on "No Child Left Behind" aims low, lowers expectations, and quality of education.  This satisfies the guilt acquired for not really doing a good job educating.  Children get run through schools like cattle in a slaughter house.  The goal is to at least get them to the end, statistically and they, pretty much, meet the same demise.

"Unspoken words are not for the people that can hear, only for those that listen."  LTH

 

"Chasing tasks for the current month rather than leading them"  be preactive (sic) rather than reactive to be

 successful

Experience...is simply the name we give our mistakes.

New York: where everyone mutinies but no one deserts.

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.

 

This page last updated: 03/21/08

This page is dedicated to the interesting things people say on an everyday basis.  Sometimes you just have to have been there or it doesn't make sense.  Hopefully, most quotes aren't like that.

All original quotes by LTH are copyrighted

 

"You never know how close someone's heart is until you reach for it and find it has always been close enough to touch"  LTH
 
"A smile is the warmth of friendship"  LTH

" Truth is... what really happened" LTH

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." BLS (Black Leather Sporty)

"Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another." BLS

"People may doubt what you say but they will believe what you do." BLS

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does." BLS

"I can not, and will not judge, by what my eyes may see. For the skin on a man shall not reveal his true identity."

The vision that you glorify in your mind,
the ideal that you enthrone in your heart,
this you will build your life by,  and this you will become.

James Lane Allen

Life is more about what life is not about than what it is about. LTH

A little on the Latin side:

Credo ut intelligam - I believe so that I may understand

Credo quia absurdum est - I believe because it is absurd

"Americans are addicted to Illusion"  James Howard Kunstler


 

38. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Eggs, I eat them for breakfast

Chickens wait till lunch or dinner

                                                Doug E.

Useful quotes follow:

"You are not as special as you think you are, you are as special as you make someone else"  LTH

99% of our destiny comes from our attitude

99% of our attitude comes from our heart

and our heart contains what we decide to put in it

                                                   LTH

 

"Now, that is a perplexing oxymoron" - LTH

People need to come with a package label like this: "Fragile, Heart Inside, Handle With Care"  - LTH

Don't worry about those yesterdays, man. It's those damn tomorrows and all the friggin surprises

 packed in with them that'll really get your goat! O. D Davenport

 

Going to the doctor, anymore, is like taking your car to a banker to get it fixed - LTH

 

I complain more often for the entertainment of it.. that's when someone actually takes it serious

 

No one is ever done whining about themselves - George on a grumpy day

 

NOW" exists in constant motion.  The past is not recordable without being distorted, thus, perpetuating

 denial and altered reality.  LTH

 

life's too short to be able to finish it, a person must pass it on to someone else, it doesn't matter if it's

 your kid.. or a friend.. or a stranger.. sometimes it's just making one tiny change to make a difference.

 LTH

 

"If anyone wants to know your business and it is not relative to their needs, more often than not it's

 something they want to use to criticize and destroy you with"  LTH

 

"Our chief defect is that we are more given to talking about things than to doing them."

-Jawaharlal Nehru

 

"But boss, we don't even have enough bones to have a skeleton crew." -  LTH

 

I love you so much, I  work really hard to make you see it my way. - Babe

 

"Hey, I think your balls are ringing."  Ted to Jimmy, that his golf balls are spy phones.

 

"Where's my purse?  I know I left it here somewhere."- Mom, for the 40trillionth time

 

"Parking your bike downhill facing the curb is like starting out the day by putting your underwear on

 backward." - LTH

 

"I was just beginning to worry." (Not that it wasn't obvious) - LTH

 

"If you fart around with it long enough, it'll either work or you'll break it" - LTH

 

"You never really know how much you pick your nose until you hurt the finger you pick with" - LTH

 

"I have my wife trained to be just the way she wants me" - Vic (the furnace guy)

 

"You put them in only finger tight" - by George

 

"It takes great character and strength to control one's temper and even greater to control one's own

 mouth" - LTH

 

"Appreciate what you have, it's the only way to get more" - LTH

 

"The less you shovel out of your mouth, the less you'll have to eat later"  

 

"When you say the word "no" or the word "yes" realize the power that they may be carrying". -LTH

 

Wisdom - When finished with a conversation ask yourself, what color the person's eyes were. "Your name will be mud!" ~ Mom while she is spewing

When a man finally figures out what a woman is all about.  He's as confused as she is. - LTH

Here, let me have a crack at it. ~ Guy T.

That quote reminds me when Greg M. said, "Let's crack it open".

"If he had any brains he'd take them out and play with them" - by George

 

"By George" - Scenario is staged in a men's restroom with George (75 years existence) at a urinal with an innocent bystander at the other end, so the story goes...

George enters the restroom and pulls up to the farthest urinal - after a few grunts and fidgeting he says - 

"I can't find the flap on these things, there either isn't one or I have them on backwards!"

 

 -My Dad -

You know how women always come up to you and ask how they look?  Well, mom, she came up to dad...asked him the eternal question and his answer -

"Well, If anyone had the hiccups it would cure 'em."

A few quotes offered by a guest for anyone's edification

"The road to moderation is through the byways of excess." - Dirty Ernie 

"Murder is the most sincere form of criticism."

 "Suicide is the most sincere form of apology."

 "I haven't had this much fun since I was in my right mind." - Newo Tropnevad

 

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