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.
A man who hates kids and small dogs can’t be all bad.
W. C. Fields.
You are my density. ...
He said That?
‘Be still and know I AM’
Oh my, that Steven Wright is something else. I’m only on page 2 of the quotes and there are so many great ones.
When an evil masochist dies, does he go to hell, or would heaven be a better punishment? — Steven Wright
Ah yes, we were in the wilds of Afghanistan and lost our corkscrew. We were forced to live on food and water for many days. -W.C. Fields
You’ve got some good ones there. I like this one especially.
“Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.” - Plato
I had no idea that even in Plato’s time there were people like this.
“I feel as low as a crippled cricket’s ass”
Totally agree. Which makes me notice something missing from this thread. Some Ayn Rand quotes. She had some good ones and I don't think anyone's quoted her yet.
Aristocracy of Pull.
Dr Ferris and laws.
Francisco’s money rant.
Where are we going and why are we in this handbasket?
(Forgive me-mobile device)
“Dope will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no dope.”
Yes.
“Livin’ will kill you if you do it long enough”—from my late Mom.
What? You’ve never stopped by Frontier Bagel?
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
George Orwell ‘A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.’
I saw that quoted on the old Facebook a couple of weeks back.
Bkmrk
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