Posted on 08/13/2011 3:39:17 PM PDT by existentialist
These are possibly the 5 best sentences you'll ever read:
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work, because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C. S. Lewis
How about: “Call me Ishmael.” ?
You left out:
6. Democrats...F%*& all of ‘em.
may i also suggest:
Barack Obama, the ex-president, moved back to Chicago today.
my favorite is ... This sentence no verb.
In the long run, this made the Soviet economy totally uncompetitive. This lesson cost us dearly. I am sure nobody wants to see it repeated.
Sounding more like Barry Goldwater than the former head of the KGB, Putin said, Nor should we turn a blind eye to the fact that the spirit of free enterprise, including the principle of personal responsibility of businesspeople, investors, and shareholders for their decisions, is being eroded in the last few months. There is no reason to believe that we can achieve better results by shifting responsibility onto the state. Vladimir Putin
“A man, a plan, a canal — Panama!”
“Honey, is it OK if my roommate from my LUG years at college stays with us for the weekend?”
That's a good one. Also, "Always clearly relate the pronoun to the antecedent, lest you confuse him."
class8601_nuke wrote:
my favorite is ... This sentence no verb.
I see your suggestion and raise you.
Barack Obama aka Barry Sotero ex-conman president was escorted today in an orange jump suit to Indonesia extricating him to his home county.
“Last Saturday, I woke up dead.”
Verbing weirds language.
A dog, a plan, a canal - Pagoda!
My favorite sentence? That’s easy: The one O J Simpson got for trying to rob those memorabilia dealers in Vegas. I liked that one a lot.
“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild, and government to gain ground.”
-Thomas Jefferson
My favorite sentence?
“Everybody freeze, this is a thread hijack!”
Try this:
Start a raw war at rats!
“Vice President Joe Biden will be sworn in as president today and fulfill those duties through the end of this term.”
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