Favorite Quote thread

[Zeitgeist]

"Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
~Bill Shakespeare

I have several here. This is a source file; one of the quotes is sorta-randomly selected and displayed every time someone views the main page of my website.

[blackmercedes]

Remember that happiness is a way of travel - not a destination.
Roy M. Goodman

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
The Dalai Lama

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Harry S Truman (1884 - 1972), Lecture at Columbia University, 28 Apr. 1959

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
Alan Corenk

[Botnst]

"Under every stone lurks a politician." -- Aristophanes

"There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks.* Bloodsuckers all." -- Davy Crockett (Member of Congress)

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."* -- Mark Twain

"Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." -- H.L. Mencken

"Giving money and power to the government is like giving car keys and whisky to teenage boys." -- P.J. O'Rourke

"Politicians love visible beneficiaries and invisible victims." -- Walter Williams

"‘Politics’ comes from the Greek ‘poly’ meaning ‘many’ and ‘ticks’, which are blood-sucking parasites." -- Andre Marrou

"Some politicians actually work their butts off.* But it's usually in just a frantic, futile attempt to justify their neurotic parasitic existence." -- Bert Rand

And finally this one:
"Politicians are the same all over.* They promise to build a bridge even when there is no river." -- Nikita Khruschev

[95benzman]

Hi All
Some of my favorites.
To know and not to do is not yet know.
Zen Saying.

Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.
joe moon.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
Douglas MacArthur

No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."
Mark twain

Politicial language...is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an apperance of solidity to pure wind."
George Orwell.

On a lighter side.

If you see the fork in the road take it.
Yoggie Berra.

Dying an't much of a living Boy.
Josey Walles/ The outlaw josey walles

You mind if I smoke while you eat?
Linda Lovelace/ deep throat.

Enjoy.

[JCE]

• The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but it's echo lasts a great deal longer. -Oliver Wendell Holmes

A nation is not conquered
Until the hearts of its women are on the ground.
Then it is finished,
No matter how brave its warriors
Or how strong their weapons."

—Cheyenne proverb

"If the children are untaught, their ignorance and vices will in future life cost us much dearer in their consequences than it would have done in their correction by a good education."
—Thomas Jefferson

"Children are a message we send into a future we will never see."
unknown

"My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."
—Christopher Morley

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
—Oliver Wendell Holmes


"History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure." - Justice Thurgood Marshall, 1989.


"Ask not what your country can do for you,
but rather what you can do for your country."

--Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Roman orator and statesman, 63 B.C.

"What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books." (Thomas Carlyle)

If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too.
-- W. Somerset Maugham

"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 short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat." (Theodore Roosevelt)

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. ( Mahatma Gandhi)

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more." (Jonas Salk)

"Kids who have yet to master spelling or basic math are in no position to dogmatize about scientific questions like global warming or nuclear power." (Thomas Sowell)

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." (John von Neumann)

"When ideas fail, words come in very handy." (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have
exhausted all other alternatives." (Abba Eban)

"Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without
ability." (George Bernard Shaw)

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it." (Thomas Jefferson)

[boneheaddoctor]

"I'm gonna rip yer lip off" Coach Algea LaBraska at the Jr High School I attended.

He said that frequently when someone said something they should not have said in his mind.

[Honus]

There really can be only one choice:

"Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy. I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." Senator Lloyd Bentsen, Omaha, Nebraska, October 5, 1988.

But it is not just the words, which are so painfully on target, it is the way Senator Bentsen delivered them. It was perfection.

[Chris W.]

"A man's got to take a chance now and then, else he might be walkin' around lucky and never know it."

Anonymous.

Chris W.

[A264172]

"There hasn't been such an extraordinary collection of talent and knowledge gathered in this room since Thomas Jefferson dined here alone."

-John Kennedy (to a gathering of American Nobel Prize winners)



"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea, but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."

-Abraham Lincoln

[Hogweed]

"you're an errand boy sent by grocery clerks to collect the bill"- colonel walter e. kurtz

[Hogweed]

"i'd ask him what the matter was but i know that he don't talk"

"the sun's not yellow it's chicken"

"he just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette"

"and never even talked to the people at the table, and emptied the ashtrays on a whole other level"

[cmac2012]

Legend has it that Lao Tzu and Confucious met. Genrally speaking, the Confucian school of thought had more of an emphasis on rules and morality than that of Lao Tzu, which was more free form, deriving from an inner compass.

Confucious walked in the door, Lao Tzu turned, gazed at him and said: "Shed your false manners, they are useless to you."

[A264172]

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein


His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
-Woody Allen


"There are only two kinds of people I really hate in this world; those that are intolerant of the ethnic and cultural heritage of others, and the Dutch."
-the Senior Mr. Powers (Goldmember)

[A264172]

“Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”
-Winston Churchill