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.
Took me a second, but LOL!
You beat me to it: it was Stephen Wright
‘What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.’— Lord Melbourne —
Honor is a gift a man gives himself
“Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink into insignificance.”
George Patton
If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! ~ Samuel Adams
Printed and posted on my refrigerator for a few years now.
“Quis custodiet ipsos custodes” — Juvenal
“I have an earnest desire to get things absolutely right.”
- Gordon Ramsay
---David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes.
Nobody owes you a living, so shut up and get back to work. - My Father...
“It seems like it happened only yesterday”.....John McGraw and Honus Wagner reflecting back on their life long association with Major league Baseball, near the end of McGraw’s life, circa 1932 or so.
Oh my gosh, Mom quotes. Good idea, I love them. Here’s some of my mother’s quotes:
If you ever find yourself feeling sorry for someone, run away as fast as you can.
You attract what you fear.
Every thought is like a request.
Once your children are grown, your only job is to love them.
“When the phone don’t ring you’ll know it’s me”
“Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all the world, I can’t help but cry.
I mean I’d love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff.”
—Mariah Carey
As Ronald Reagan said , the Russian proverb “Trust, but verify”
“I don’t care what you don’t want. I want to know what you DO want!”
This is great. I’m going to use it. Lately I seem to be attracting conversations filled with bitching. This is very helpful. Thanks.
LOL!
Oscar Wilde...the original gay interior designer!
Who would have a reality t.v. show today.;)
And if I am allowed to quote myself...
1. Good intentions are no excuse for poor execution.
2. Musical comedy is very often neither.
3. If ignorance is bliss, then social media must be Utopia.
My mom’s quote I will always remember, after watching me stick my fingers in a light socket and I let out a scream:
“That’s what you get when you stick your fingers in a light socket.”
I did that as a kid, and now I’m a Controls Engineer! Must be something in the blood!
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