Favorite Quotes

[Guest RodH]

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.

 

Kurt Vonnegut, "Cat's Cradle"

[RichP714 3,158]

I made a mental note, but it was in the wrong key

[weitrhino 1,440]

A man who's changed against his will

Is of the same opinion still

[Guest sutekh]

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

 

This is something of which I must remind myself daily...

[Scarabeo500gt 6]

"Give me a Fist full of coins and I will punch you in the face"

Bruce Lee

[zumbini 6,146]

"In my experience if something seems too good to be true it's best to shoot it, just in case." Fiona Glenanne (Burn Notice)

[jazzman53 1,247]

"You don't appreciate the stuff you learned in grade school-- the little things; like being spanked every day by a middle aged woman... stuff you pay good money for in later life"   Sheldon Stokes

[RichP714 3,158]

"“When all the trees have been cut down, when all the animals have been hunted, when all the waters are polluted, when all the air is unsafe to breathe, only then will you discover you cannot eat money.” --Cree Prophecy

[elgrau 84]

"I could carve a better man from a banana"

 

- Teddy Roosevelt (about Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. because he was a libtard....and because Holmes voted against his president in the biggest railroad trust-busting case of the time, United States v. Northern Securities).

[RichP714 3,158]

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

 

-- John Kenneth Galbraith

[zumbini 6,146]

"I could carve a better man from a banana"

 

- Teddy Roosevelt (about Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. because he was a libtard....and because Holmes voted against his president in the biggest railroad trust-busting case of the time' date=' United States v. Northern Securities).

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It is interesting to note that Roosevelt appointed Holmes to the Supreme Court thinking that he would have an ally in the Justice Department. Holmes' refusal to conform to Roosevelt's desires demonstrated that he was his own man and not Roosevelt's instrument.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver Wendell Holmes

[oldtexasdog 2,395]

You have me going like a one legged grasshopper in a chicken yard -Jim G Lovell-my grandfather

[RichP714 3,158]

"The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them." 

- Albert Einstein

[oldtexasdog 2,395]

"WE don't see things as they are, we see them as we are"-Anais Nin

[zumbini 6,146]

[oldtexasdog 2,395]

 

 

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt

[BluesMan57 1,340]

 "He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." ~ Albert Einstein

[RichP714 3,158]

"Listen to Ketut" -- Ketut

[B-Man 4,768]

"The one thing our Founding Fathers could not foresee -- they were farmers, professional men, businessmen giving of their time and effort to an idea that became a country -- was a nation governed by professional politicians who had an interest in getting re-elected. They probably envisioned a fellow serving a couple of hitches and then eagerly looking forward to getting back to the farm."

 

--Ronald Reagan 

[B-Man 4,768]

"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

 

--Abraham Lincoln 

[galaxyoilcan 88]

Experience is being able to recognise a mistake when you make it....again.

[oldtexasdog 2,395]

"For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from

the cliffs of despair." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

 

[galaxyoilcan 88]

Just remember, wherever you go, there you are. - B-52's (Girl from Ipanema goes to Greenland)

[DaveStL 85]

These aren't original, but I don't know where I heard them:

 

Physics is your friend.

Corollary:  big hammers break things.

 

My son heard them a lot when he was younger, esp. the corollary.

[RPA-1 Man 611]

I wouldn't say they're my favorites, but they do make me laugh. 

 

"If you were a laser, you'd be set on stunning." - cupid.com radio commercial

 

"Are you a parking ticket? Because you've got fine written all over you." - cupid.com radio commercial