Favorite Quote thread

[nhodges]

"Somedays you get chicken and somedays you get feathers." Anon

[blackmercedes]

"Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'."

Morgan Freeman's character in The Shawshank Redemption.

[blackmercedes]

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
James Oppenheim

I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
E. B. White

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.
Alice Kahn

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Max Frisch

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population.
Albert Einstein

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W. Sockman

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Evan Esar

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Pete Seeger

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910), Notebook, 1935

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.
Woodrow Wilson

Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless.
Sinclair Lewis

Man who go to bed with itchy ass...................Wake up with smelly finger.

Author Unknown...bathroom wall Ft. Clayton Panama




Beneath it:

Man who get caught writing on bathroom wall.....have no ass no itch.


Author unknown, but defintely a guy with a good sense of humor.

[mikemover]

Do. Or do not. There is no "try". --Yoda

Mike

[TN-W124 Diesel]

" I'm trying to think but nothin is happening"- Curly

[KirkVining]

"Our nation must rise above a house divided. I know America wants reconciliation and unity. I know Americans want progress. And we will seize this moment and deliver."
-George Bush 12/2000

"Go fu*k yourself"
-Dick Cheney, seizing the moment 6/2004

[Zeitgeist]

Under Republicans man exploits man
Under Democrats it's just the opposite

[KirkVining]

Z, that reminds me of an old joke:

Kennedy, Carter and Clinton are on a cruise liner that hits an iceberg, and the liner has only a few lifeboats. Carter jumps up and exclaims "Save the women and childern!". Kennedy turns to Carter and says, "F*ck the women". Clinton turns to both and says "Well, do you think we have time?"

[Botnst]

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

[Botnst]

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston Churchill

[Botnst]

William Pitt ('the elder'), Earl of Chatham, speaking to the House of Lords, June 17th 1774:
"If we take a transient view of those motives which induced the ancestors of our fellow-subjects, in America, to leave their native country to encounter the innumerable difficulties of the unexplored regions of the western world,
our astonishment at the present conduct of their descendants will naturally subside. There was no corner of the world into which men of their free and enterprizing turn would not fly, with alacrity, rather than submit to the
slavish and tyrannical principles which prevailed, at that period, in their native country.

"And shall we wonder, my Lords, if the descendants of such illustrious characters spurn, with contempt, the hand of unconstitutional power, that would snatch from them such dear bought privileges as they now contend for? Had the British colonies been planted by any other kingdoms than our own, the inhabitants would have carried with them the chains of slavery, and the spirit of despotism; but as they are, they ought to be remembered as great influences to instruct the world, to what a stretch of liberty mankind will naturally attain, when they are left to the free exercise of themselves."

[Botnst]

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

Benjamin Disraeli

[Tirebiter]

You cannot cheat an honest man. WC Fields

Anything worth having is worth cheating for. WC Fields

The only thing found in the middle of the road is yellow stripes and dead armadillos. Ann Richards

Some of God's greatest gifts have been unanswered prayers. From a country/western song.

He who beats his weapons into plow shears will end up plowing for those who didn't. Unknown author.

Forgive and remember so that the mistakes of others do not become our own. Shoalin teaching.

[Zeitgeist]

"Well ok...but just the tip."