[MarkL]

My current favorite was found right here, on one of the many LOTR threads! Sorry that I don't remember who to attribute it to...

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."--Gandalf the Grey

"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."--Smaug the Dragon

Mark

[GretchenEE]

I hope you've found your favorite quote by now. As for me, I bookmarked the thread so I can glean the many truths in capsule form here.

[S.O.S121.500]

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[StoneColdGOP]

"I am become death, the destroyer of worlds."

[Bosco]

"You lose."

- Calvin Coolidge, his answer to a reporter who wagered with another reporter that he could get more than two words out of "Silent Cal".

[Liberty2112]

"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." - Barry Goldwater

[Ordie 1]

I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for its self. A bird will stand on the branch and fall completely frozen without feeling sympathy for its self.. UNKNOWN

[Sgt_Schultze]

Use this as a toast:

Here's to it, from it and to it again.
You'd better do it when you get to it.
Because if you don't do it when you get to it,
You may never get to it to do it again.

[Accountable One]

"That place is so crowded, nobody goes there anymore"

Yogi Berra

[StoneColdGOP]

"Only if you have been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain."

[A CA Guy]

Jessie Jacksin: I deny the aligations and deny the aligator!

[Alabama_Wild_Man]

" Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem....
We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price. "

~~ Ronald Reagan

[Smedley]

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future. -- Neils Bohr

[gc4nra]

I kinda like:

"We will bury our dead, mend up our wounded, soothe and comfort the broken hearted, beseech our God ... and then we will come amongst them as a Lion amongst sheep."
Jeff Head, Sep 13, 2001

[BluesDuke]

A few of mine:

The question of who is right is a small one, indeed, beside the question of what is right. - Albert Jay Nock.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong remedies.
- Groucho Marx.

Democracy is the fine art of running the circus from the monkey cage. - H.L. Mencken.

You tell the Youth of America, "Here is the opportunity." And the Youth of America asks, "Where is the money?" - Casey Stengel.

I have never wished a man dead, but I have read a great many obituaries with a great deal of pleasure. - Clarence Darrow.

We proclaim ourselves, as indeed we are, the defenders of freedom, what is left of it in the world. But we cannot defend freedom abroad by abandoning it at home. - Edward R. Murrow.

A sacred cow is worth only one thing - steak - Yours, truly. (No joke: it's my own creation!)

[wonderboys]

Query G.K. Chesterton for a gold mine of quotes...

[denydenydeny]

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness."
--the Declaration of Independence

"We do not sacrifice the rule of law to the will and whim of men. That it the old way. The old, sad, stupid way. The way of Xerxes and every creature like him.
A new age is begun. An age of great deeds. An age of reason. An age of justice. An age of law. And all will know that three hundred Spartans gave their last breath to defend it."
--Leonidas in Frank Miller's 300

"How do I write such good female characters? Simple. I start with a man and take out reason and accountability."
--Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets

[JWinNC]

"Water every little shrub because you never know where the flowers may grow." - Charlie Bouye

Peace,
JW

[MistrX]

"Owww, hey that hurts!"

[Billy_bob_bob]

My favorite quote? That's easy!

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro!"

That's from Hunter S. Thompson, by the way. Truly words to live by.