Posted on 01/03/2002 5:33:02 AM PST by stevio
I know this is pure vanity, but here it is.
I'm joining a new company and they have a "Get to know your fellow employee" kind of thing. They ask your name, marital status, favorite book (The Bible), movie (Road Warrior), music (Jazz), web site (Free Republic), etc..
My dilemma is I need a favorite quote. Some quotes are good for certain situations and some are not. As I respect and admire my Freeper family, I ask for your help.
P.S. When asked; "what you want your co-workers to know about you", I penned a very pro-Second Amendment statement.
Senator Roscoe Conkling
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
Groucho
That was on Carlos Marcello's office back door on Veterans Boulevard in Metairie, Louisiana.
Harry Callahan: "To personel, that's for assholes."
Captain McKay: "I was in personel for ten years."
Harry Callahan: "Ya."
From "The Enforcer."
"Government big enough to give to the people everything they want is powerful enough to take from the people everything they have."
Unfortunately, I don't know who first said it.
The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac
It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.
John Philpot Curran
A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides.
Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid.
John Wayne
Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.
Woody Guthrie
And finally,
The road to tyranny, we must never forget, is the destruction of the truth.
William Jefferson Clinton
The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there's nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.PJ O'Rourke
There goes another beautiful theory about to be murdered by a brutal gang of facts.
La Rochefoucauld
Lt. Harry 'Breaker' Morant
A Little Story
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody, and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that because it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have done.
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