Quote for the day...

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs -- jolted by every pebble in the road."

--Henry Ward Beecher,
American reformer

If I had my choice I would kill every reporter in the world but I am sure we would be getting reports from hell before breakfast.”

William Tecumseh Sherman

"I want a busy life, a just mind, and a timely death."

--Zora Neale Hurston, author

"Put a grain of boldness into everything you do."

--Baltasar Gracian, Spanish writer

"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?" - Scott Adams

"Some things have to be believed to be seen."

--Ralph Hodgson, English poet

"Too much of a good thing can be wonderful."

--Mae West, actress

Reflections on government...


1) Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But then I repeat myself ............Mark Twain



2) I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
..........Winston Churchill
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3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
...........George Bernard Shaw
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4) A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
...........G Gordon Liddy
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5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
..........James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
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6) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
...........Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at = Georgetown Univ



7) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys ..............P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian



8) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
........Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
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9) Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it If it keeps moving, regulate it.
And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
......Ronald Reagan (1986)
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10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
............Will Rogers
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11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
.......P.J. O'Rourke
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12) In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
.........Voltaire (1764)
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13) Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
.........Pericles (430 B.C.)
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14) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
.........Mark Twain (1866)
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15) Talk is cheap ... except when Congress does it.
........Unknown
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16) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
..........Ronald Reagan
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17) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
........Winston Churchill
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18) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
........Mark Twain
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19) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
.........Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
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20) There is no distinctly native American criminal class...
save Congress.
.........Mark Twain
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21) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
.........Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
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22) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
.........Thomas Jefferson

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.QUOTE from Bacon

"Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it."

--Agatha Christie, English crime fiction writer

"Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it." - George Orwell (1903- 1950).

Certainly true of this generation.....
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Keep 'em coming....

Me

"Am event is always preceded by prophecy, but without a Hero, there is no event." -Anonymous

"If one Frenchman calls another a coward, is it an insult?

Only to the extent it is considered theft if one Frenchman steals the sleeves out of another Frenchman's vest.."

River Rat

"We don't accomplish anything in this world alone ... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads from one to another that creates something."

--Sandra Day O'Connor, former U.S. Supreme Court Justice

"The alleged prophet only deserves unrelenting hate, his words should be scorned as the product of idiocy, his image defiled, and his followers scorned, shunned, and taxed by all of Western Civilization."

Anon (Speaking of Muhammed)

"A short saying often contains much wisdom."

--Sophocles, Greek philosopher and playwright

Two Quotes of the Week, both by Benjamin Franklin:

"There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace."

"He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees."

"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are."
-- Nicholas Chamfort

"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."

--Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thirty-second U.S. president

"I'm tired of hearing about money, money, money, money, money. I just want to play the game, drink Pepsi, wear Reebok."

--Shaquille O'Neal, American professional basketball player



and he's allowed to reproduce......

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any experience that reveals the human spirit."

--E.E. Cummings, American poet

"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work". - Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

While we're quoting ancient Greeks...

"The state that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its
thinking done by cowards, and its fighting by fools."
- Thucydides

Seems to apply almost perfectly to the world today... as true now as it was 2500 years ago :P

When in danger,
Or in doubt,
Run in circles,
Scream and Shout!

thanks Sol!

right back at you, AC V1.0 :)

"Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."

--Albert Schweitzer, Nobel Peace Prize recipient

"May you live in interesting times."
Old curse.

"History is the lie that everyone agrees upon."
Voltaire

"Some men see things as the are - and say, "Why?".
Some men dream things that never were - and say, "Why not?"
(Can't remember offhand)

"The devil knows more because he is old than because he is the devil".
Old Spanish proverb.

"Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw

"Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence."
Henrik Tikkanen

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears.......however measured or far away."
Henry David Thoreau

"If we do not act now, we will surely end up where we are heading."
Chinese proverb.

"What we are and what we seem is but a dream.
A dream within a dream."
(From 'Picnic at Hanging Rock')

"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face."
Ben Williams

"And the devil did grin, for his darling sin - is pride that apes humanity."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate.
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses,
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream."
Ernest Dowson

"Don't shed tears for any person.
The one person who deserves them would never make you cry."

"If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very few persons."
James Thurber

"Courage is not the absence of fear....rather the ability to face it."