Zen Wisdom

Before enlightenment,

I chopped wood and carried water.

After enlightenment,

I chopped wood and carried water.

-Zen saying

Journalistic Wisdom

All animals are equal….but some animals are more equal than others – George Orwell

Jazz Artist Wisdom

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don’t, you’re simply ducking your responsibilities. – Ann Richards

Expressionis Artist Wisdom

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time – Willem de Kooning

Writer Wisdom

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life – Cynthia Ozick

Motivational Speaker Wisdom

Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced…an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you. – Meladee McCarty

Irish Playwrite Wisdom

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution – Oscar Wilde

French Author Wisdom

The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in streets and to steal bread. – Anatole France

Unknown Wisdom

My Karma ran over your dogma - Unknown

Welsh Poet Wisdom

Someone’s boring me. I think it’s me. – Dylan Thomas

Writer Wisdom

Never explain…..your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway – Elbert Hubbard

Physicist Wisdom

There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the US National deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. – Richard Feynman

Halloween Wisdom

Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play.
~Joel Benton

Comedic Wisdom

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing – Redd Foxx

Modernist Wisdom

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. ~ Katherine Mansfield

Novelist Wisdom

Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort. – Charles Dickens

Comedic Wisdom

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.- Jonathan Winters

Satirist Wisdom

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story about how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than the future. – Chuck Palahniuk

Foster's Law

The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders – Foster’s Law

I don’t necessarily agree with everything I say. – Marshall McLuhan

Painter Wisdom

All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.- Henry Miller

Comedic Wisdom

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. – Billy Vaughan

French Author Wisdom

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. – Jules Renard

Italian Philosopher Wisdom..

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else – Umberto Eco

Friendship Wisdom

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move the body. - Anonymous

Roman Wisdom

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. - Cicero

Philosophical Wisdom

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments – Friedrich Neitzsche

Submariner Wisdom

Good ideas are not adopted automatically. The must be driven into practice with courageous patience. Hyman Rickover

Jazz Musician Wisdom

I searched through rebellion, drugs, diets, mysticism, religions,intellectualism and much more, only to begin to find...that truth is basically simple - and feels good, clean and right. - Chick Corea (1941-) American Jazz Musician

Ancient Roman Wisdom

From the end spring new beginnings - Pliny the Elder

American Writer Wisdom...

Genius may have it’s limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped – Elbert Hubbard

Academy Award Winning Actor Wisdom

People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. - Peter Ustinov

Presidential Wisdom

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world. You impoverish yourself if you forget this errand. Woodrow Wilson

Biker Wisdom...

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know "why" I look this way. I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved - anonymous

First Lady Wisdome

Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water! Eleanor Roosevelt

Race Car Driver Wisdom

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson

Ancient Wisdom

Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. - Dandemis

Scottish Wisdom

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us - Alexander Graham Bell

Race Car Driver Wisdom

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience - Doug Larson

Chinese Philosopher Wisdom

There is no calmaity greater than lavish desires
There is no greater guilt than discontentment
And there is no greater disaster than greed.

Lao-tzu

Spanish Wisdom

"The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise." - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Shakespearian Wisdom

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind - William Shakespeare

Comedic Wisdom

Reputation is character minus what you’ve been caught doing. - Michael Iapoce

Journalistic Wisdom

Just because your voice reached halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reache only to the end of the bar. - Edward R Murrow

Screenwriter Wisdom

Hindsight is always 20/20 - Billy Wilder

Transcendental Wisdom

The most I can do for my friend is simply to be his friend. I have no wealth to bestow on him. If he knows that I am happy in loving him, he will want no other reward. Is not friendship divine in this? -- Henry David Thoreau

Comedic Wisdom

"I’VE GIVEN UP on the whole human species. I think a big, good-sized comet is exactly what this species needs. You know, the poor dinosaurs were walking around eating leaves, and they were completely wiped out. Let the insects have a go. You know, I don’t think they’ll come up with sneakers with lights in them, or Dust Busters, or Salad Shooters, or snot candy. . . . I only wish there were some way I could live out on the moon and watch it all on CNN. . . I just want to describe the mess. But life is dual. If you scratch a cynic, you’ll find a disappointed idealist."-George Carlin, comedian, writer, The Progressive (July 2001)

Amazon Wisdom....

The only thing wrong with a perfect ride to work is that you end up at work.

just a quick note...

to let you all know
that I have tendinitis
and am trying to save my "posting time" for
when I'm at work....one does have to eat ya know....
I have every intention of being back when
working at the computer doesn't hurt...or hurts less

in the interim....here's a quote for you...

Life is like a rose . . . more exquisite and precious, when shared with others - Jane Oechsle Lauer

British Author Wisdom

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon - Susan Ertz

Lithuanian Violinist Wisdom

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. - Jascha Heifetz

Holly daze...

Hello faithful readers.....

I'm leaving on the 2nd on holly daze
will be back on the 16th ish

so I'm giving myself a wee break to prepare
for the grand exit
and the even grander return....

stay tuned!
ya know I'm too mouthy to stay quiet for long
LoL

Amazon Wisdom

Never pack a rain suit AND sunblock.
Murphy will get confused and make it snow. - Amazon Tee on the White Rhino

Scottish Novelist Wisdom

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant – Robert Louis Stevenson

French Fabulist Wisdom

Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances - La Fontaine

Irish Wisdom

All that is necesary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing. - Edmund Burke

German Philosopher Wisdom

The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Countess of Westmoreland Wisdom

Call it a clan, call it a network, call it a tribe, call it a family. Whatever you call it, whoever you are...you need one. - Jane Howard

British Wisdom

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. - Samuel Johnson

Caliph Wisdom

He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,
And he who has one enemy will meet him everywhere. - Ali ibn-Abi Talib

Wyzwmn......

has left the building

Happy Canada Day on the 1st

be back Tuesday or Wednesday

Self Improvement Wisdom

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. - Dale Carnegie

Political Wisdom?

If you can find something everyone agrees on....it's wrong - Mo Udall

British Theologian Wisdom

We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. - Benjamin Jowett

Biker Poet Wisdom

Biker Style
by
the IronHorse Rider
12/21/03

In LifeCertain things are black n white
No room for compromise
Straddlin’ thunder, feels good down under
Nirvana for the thighs

You see
There exists no sure fire methods
Grand schemes may take awhile
So, take a hint, a leather blueprint
Do it ‘Biker Style’

Dance abreast a well endowed chest
Accept all it may entail
Gettin’ slapped, feelin’ trapped
Knowing when to bail
Take your time, make it rhyme
Leave ‘em with a smile
Better to be, a fond memory
All due to ‘Biker Style’

One must
Always be the gentleman
Stopping short of being en vogue
Enjoy the dance of circumstance
Ladies prefer a rogue

Take not
Unless freely given
Be grateful for having the chance
In life, to succeed, one must take the lead
Be willing to try, the dance

And thus
Dance abreast a well endowed chest
Accept all it may entail
Gettin’ slapped, feelin’ trapped
Knowing when to bai
lTake your time, make it rhyme
Leave ‘em with a smile
Better to be, a fond memory
All due to ‘Biker Style’

Comedic Wisdom

Love yourself first and everything else falls in to line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world - Lucille Ball

Poet Wisdom

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Biker Wisdom

You will not feel the need to go to the restroom until after you have put on your rainsuit.

News Anchor Wisdom

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overtrure and not think of the Lond Ranger. - Dan Rather

Wrinkles and Roads

Wrinkles and Roads

I've faced my demons, more than once

Spit against the wind

Walked on water, so I thought

Ventured into sin

Moved the Earth, a time or two

Ate my share of dirt

Spurned the gift of life itself

Death whispered its flirt

Wrinkles travel upon my face

As lines from a weathered map

Roads destined to end at fate

Time, the eternal trap

Wisdom sprouts from failed seeds

Lessons to be learned

Still waters, run deeper still

When bridges have been burned

I'm not one to dwell upon

Choices left behind

I choose to see what lies ahead

For hindsight can be blind

Wrinkles travel upon my face

Reflecting roads of past

I pray to ever taste the wind

The roads, to ever last

Ironhorse Writer

© 1/03/2003

Canadian Self Help Author

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy. - Brian Tracy

Work Wisdome

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours - Jerome K Jerome

Biker 101

Biker 101

What is a Biker?

Is it someone who's clearly defined?,

or a perception, merely a state of mind?

Who is a Biker?

One portrayed in movies, through hype?,

or entrapped within a stereotype?

When is a Biker?

24/7 from head to boot?,

or the weekend warrior, who sheds his suit?

Why is a Biker?

Fulfilling a preordained legacy?,

or simply indulging fantasy?

Where is a Biker?

As for me, it couldn't be clearer,

all I need do is look in the mirror.

by

The Ironhorse Writer

8/10/2002

Ancient Greek Wisdom

It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. - Aeschylus

Chinese Wisdom

“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” - Chinese Proverb

Left or Right
By Wild Bill © 2005 all rights reserved

Simple sounds this day of spring
Cold steel turning warm
Rhythm sets my mind to roam
Direction starts to form

With not a thought my foot descends
A click and kick is felt
Hand relaxed, gears engage
Power takes the belt

Motion starts in a roll
Butterflies descend
Colors bright, shoulders tight
Feeling starts to blend

Left or right is on the mind
Decision is defaulted
A cage is rushing up on me
All the motion halted

Familiar turns are easy
Follow an older trail
Dare I take another track
Where shadows are not stale

Left or right is in the air
Heads or tails the gamble
Fate then takes its proper place
And down the road I amble.

Old Guy's Biker Wisdom

The twisties – not the superslabs –separate the riders from the squids.

Dirt Tracker Wisdom

“Why are motorcycle dealers closed on Sundays? Because Sunday is for worship... Catholics go to church, Motorcyclists hit the road.” – Justin Skalka

The Biker Code - Wisdom for the Ride

Ride for the love of it and all that goes with it. Don't try to explain matters of the heart. Get lost in the moment. Expect the unexpected. Be aware and always prepared to ride. Know when to come home. - John "Reb" Everett

American Novelist Wisdom

"And I to my motorcycle
Parked like the soul of the junkyard
Restored, a bicycle fleshed
With power, and tore off
Up Highway 106 continually
Drunk on the wind in my mouth
Wringing the handlebar for speed
Wild to be wreckage forever." - James Dickey

Motorcycle Daredevil Wisdom

"Riding a motorcycle on today's highways, you have to ride in a very defensive manner. You have to be a good rider and you have to have both hands and both feet on the controls at all times." - Evel Knievel

Planet Earth Wisdom

Hope doesn't come from calculating whether the good news is winning out over the bad. It's simply a choice to take action - Anna Lappe

British Comedian Wisdom

"People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs." - Alexei Sayle

Japanese Wisdom

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends. - Japanese Proverb

Motorcycle Wisdom

Safety doesn't happen by accident. ~Author Unknown

The Biker Code - Wisdom for the Ride

"For some there's therapy, for the rest of us there's motorcycles.Years ago I found myself dangerously close to depression. I had 2 options: spend the next 5 years and thousands of dollars in therapy, or take a "nonconventional" approach. I bought an 1987 1100 Harley sportster. The Best Therapy Ever! - "Amazing Grace Veradossa - The Biker code, Wisdom for the Road

The Biker Code - Wisdom for the Ride

Never snub any rider no matter what he rides. Someday we will need every brother and sister we can to fight off the man trying to outlaw us. - Thomas "RoadKill" Anderson ( The Biker Code - Wisdom for the Ride)

Scottish Poet Wisdom

Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society - Robert Blair

Cartoonist Wisdom

Not being able to sleep is terrible. You have the misery of having partied all night....without the satisfaction - Lynn Johnston

Biker Wisdom

Never be ashamed to unlearn an old habit.

Biker Wisdom

Everyone crashes. Some get back on. Some don't. Some can't. ( Pray You Have the Choice )

Essayist Wisdom

Nothing can bring you peace but yourself - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Motorcycle Wisdom

Learning to ride at 41 is better than never learning to ride at all!
Great motorcycle quotes and wisdom...

Cookie Elf Wisdom

Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you. - Wally "Famous" Amos

Motorcycle Wisdom

Motorcycles don't insult you if you are a novice.

American Presidential Wisdom

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done - Dwight D Eisenhower.

Candian Biker Wisdom

Don't lead the pack if you don't know where you're goin'

Chinese Wisdom

The palest ink is better than the best memory. - Chinese Proverb

Author Wisdom

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it. - William Arthur Ward

Science Fiction Writer Wisdom

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself - Lois McMaster Bujold