Posted on 09/21/2015 7:25:36 PM PDT by Auntie Mame
What are some of your favorite quotes? Here are a few of mine:
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. – Voltaire
The usefulness of a cup is its emptiness. - Bruce Lee
Any fool can commit a murder; a suicide requires a real professional. – Genrikh Yagoda Chief of the NKVD during the early 1930s
Socialists can provide you shelter, fill your belly with bacon and beans, treat you when you're ill, all the things guaranteed to a prisoner or a slave.
Life becomes a lot easier when you realize you're not a kid anymore. - Jim McClain
Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. - John 15:13
“It appears we have appointed our worst generals to command forces, and our most gifted and brilliant to edit newspapers!”
Robert E. Lee (1863)
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I have been thinking about that concept more and more lately, and i'm not liking the result, but it seems to be beyond my power to do anything about it.
That’s a good one, and I had not heard it before.
Bttt!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
- Willie Wonka
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid.”
Ronald Reagan
It is better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. - usually attributed to Confucius
If you had everything...where would you put it? - Steven Wright
At the last possible moment he stopped on a dime..Unfortunately the dime was in Mr Roccoco’s pocket. - Nick Danger, Third Eye
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you - Golden Rule according to most of the world’s major religions.
A how how how how - Billy Gibbons
If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you - Steven Wright
So many idiots and only six bullets - ???
The more I learn about people the more I like my cat - ???
I can’t remember any more right now...gimme a while...
M4L quotes
I have started wondering why I’m drawing these people to me. Am I doing that also? Or have people always been complaining but I’m just noticing it now? Or is it a good thing, perhaps I am helping someone vent by talking out their problems. Maybe if I just sit there and repeat over and over to myself as they whine and complain, “It’s not about the nail, it’s not about the nail, it’s not about the nail.”
It wouldn’t be so bad if they just spent five minutes bitching but they go on and on and on and on. It seems like hours, days, weeks, months go by while they complain.
Oh well, this, too, shall pass.
That is a great short movie. Thanks a lot for sharing it.
War kills men, and men deplore the loss; but war also crushes bad principles and tyrants, and so saves societies.
Charles Caleb Colton
“Though the mills of God grind slowly,
Yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience He stands waiting,
With exactness grinds He all.”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.” - Winston Churchill
"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite." - Winston Churchill
I love Conan the Barbarian.
If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would happen. ..
Willie Wonka’s statement about a good deed shines reminds me of something I’ve been noticing.
The truth shines. Have you ever noticed that? There’s no question when you’re hearing the truth, it just shines.
One rarely sees the shining truth in the media, but in the real world, I notice it quite a bit.
Dinkins actually has a point.
“I’m Michael Weston. ..”
Agreed. Lately more than ever.
This reminds me of another Steven Write quote, I never read it and only heard it once, but it's stuck with me:
"I have a sea shell collection. I keep it on the beaches of the world." -- Steven Wright
I saw that one on a TV show, the first line was the “if you had everything” line. Wright is great.
What is the speed of dark?
Here is a page with a bunch of Steven wright quotes. I dare you to finish it without laughing till your face hurts.
http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/181771.Steven_Wright?page=1
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