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.
“I swear to God Big Guy, I thought turkeys could fly!” — Herb Tarlek
Actually, that quote was uttered by the station owner, Arthur “Big Guy” Carlson (played by Gordon Jump)
4:00 mark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lf3mgmEdfwg
(Yeah, I just watched it and cracked the heck up)
“Never argue with a man whose job depends on not being convinced.” (Mencken, I think)
“I feel much better since I gave up hope.” (?)
Someday?
Well ya gotta remember he wrote that in 1920. President Idiot was far in the future from his perspective.
Just heard this on Rush. “If you can’t drink their whiskey, sleep with their hookers, take their money and vote against them, you don’t belong in politics.”
Thanks! I remembered the scene, but obviously not the particulars. WKRP was a good show.
"There is only on way to avoid criticism:
Do nothing...say nothing...and be nothing"
Aristotle
“I don’t want to hear any more talk about going down to Headquarters and shooting the General and raping the nurses. Good things come to those who wait!”
- Big Joe (Telly Savalas), Kelly’s Heroes (1970)
Great Aristotle quote. However, times have changed and this quote is not as true as it was in 384-322 BC. These days, no matter what you don’t do, don’t say, or don’t “be,” there’s always someone, somewhere, who will find something to criticize.
Changing the subject, I’d like to add another quote to our list. I just ran across this and like it very much:
“We’re all self-made but only the successful will admit it.” — Earl Nightingale
I wouldn’t join a group that would have someone like Me as a Member.
Groucho Marx,
I think.
Grab 'em by the balls
And their hearts and minds will follow
From a plaque on G. Gordon Liddy's desk during the Watergate era
Good Men cannot save a great Nation
because Good Men will not go to the lengths necessary.
Horace Walpole
I'm not sure I agree with it, but admit I need to ponder the thought
thanx
THAT’S ROUGH!
Wash you’re hands afterwards!
It balances that saying;
Evil triumphs when good Men do nothing.”
I’ve never seen a librarian guarding the Border Fence!
Good quotes posted here recently. Just ran across this on another thread.
“The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough. The wisest and most cautious of us all frequently gives credit to stories which he himself is afterwards both ashamed and astonished that he could possibly think of believing. - Adam Smith, Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759)
“The function of FR is the pooling of our “incredulity.” A story might have a superficial plausibility - but be unceremoniously punctured by the insight of a single FReeper. Famous example: Buckhead and the fabulous “Texas Air National Guard Memos.”” — Posted by Freeper conservatism_IS_compassion
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary. - Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capitals, would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but to no council or senate whatever, and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Now, I knew I was in for it when the hostile critics dubbed our economic plan Reaganomics. They said we couldn't do it. But while the naysayers complained, we went to work.Today inflation has fallen from more than 12 percent to 1.8 percent for the last 12 months. Interest rates are down. Mortgage rates are down. And we've seen the creation of almost 11.7 million jobs in less than the last 4 years -- more jobs than Western Europe and Japan put together have created in the past 10 years. You know, I really, though, found out our economic plan was working when they stopped calling it Reaganomics. — Ronald Reagan
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