**VANITY** Your Favorite Quotes (Sunday afternoon fun & edification)

[HairOfTheDog]

"She gave him a look you could pour on a waffle"

(don't know who said it)

[maui_hawaii]

"Education is the stuff left over once you have forgotten all the stuff you've learned in school."

[Stultis]

How about a great retort?

Guy I know came up with a pretty good put down in a conversation the other day.

Me: So whattaya gonna do, kill me?

He: No, [if you do such and so] I'm gonna hunt you down and kill you, gut you, skin you, quarter you, feed your meat to the dogs and your guts to the hogs.

[My back yard]

I love that one.

[My back yard]

The essence of Bill and Hill.

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

The following quotes make some important points about the principles of constitutional republican government:

The Constitution was written to be understood by the voters; its words and phrases were used in their normal and ordinary, as distinguished from technical meaning; where the intention is clear, there is no room for construction, and no excuse for interpolation or addition. — Martin v. Hunter's Lessee, 1 Wheat 304; Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat 419; Brown v. Maryland, 12 Wheat 419; Craig v. Missouri, 4 Pet 10; Tennessee v. Whitworth, 117 U.S. 139; Lake County v. Rollins, 130 U.S. 662; Hodges v. United States, 203 U.S. 1; Edwards v. Cuba R. Co., 268 U.S. 628; The Pocket Veto Case, 279 U.S. 655; (Justice) Story on the Constitution, 5th ed., Sec 451; Cooley's Constitutional Limitations, 2nd ed., p. 61, 70.

It cannot be presumed that any clause in the constitution is intended to be without effect;... — Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 174 (1803).

The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now. — South Carolina v. United States, 199 U.S. 437, 448 (1905).

History is clear that the first ten amendments to the Constitution were adopted to secure certain common law rights of the people, against invasion by the Federal Government. — Bell v. Hood, 71 F. Supp., 813, 816 (1947) U.S.D.C., So. Dist. CA.

In the United States, Sovereignty resides in the people, who act through the organs established by the Constitution. — Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 Dall 419, 471; Penhallow v. Doane's Administrators, 3 Dall 54, 93; McCullock v. Maryland, 4 Wheat 316, 404, 405; Yick Yo Hopkins, 118 U.S. 356, 370.

The necessities which gave birth to the constitution, the controversies which precede its formation and the conflicts of opinion which were settled by its adoption, may properly be taken into view for the purposes of tracing to its source, any particular provision of the constitution, in order thereby, to be enabled to correctly interpret its meaning. — Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust Co., 157 U.S. 429, 558.

[Stultis]

Great selections. Thanks!

[doc]

"The real reason why polygraphs are not permissible in courts is because it would put half the trial lawyers out of business".

[nofriendofbills]

"I have never actually killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with pleasure."- H.L. Mencken

[kassie]

Can't think of any, but have certainly enjoyed reading all the good ones that have been posted! Thanks for starting this.

[GWfan]

My favorite quote was given to me by my Dad after I complained to him that my job wasn't fun, circa 1980.

"Honey, that's why they call it work, it's not supposed to be fun."

[Tennessee_Bob]

My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack.
Ferdinand Foch

My favorite is the motto I have on my right bicep -
Aut Vincere Aut Mori

[Samwise]

I would dearly love to have my old copy of Bored of the Rings.

But I must say that character Spam was a bid odd.

[strela]

"There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."
Mark Twain

"To do is to be." Sartre. "To be is to do." Rousseau. "Do be do be do." Sinatra.
Anon

PAST
n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future. These two grand divisions of Eternity, of which the one is continually effacing the other, are entirely unlike. The one is dark with sorrow and disappointment, the other bright with prosperity and joy. The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Yet the Past is the Future of yesterday, the Future is the Past of tomorrow. They are one — the knowledge and the dream.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

"Never waste your time trying to teach a pig to sing - it wastes your time and annoys the pig."
Anon

"Remember; no matter where you go, there you are."
Buckaroo Banzai

Do not go gently into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas

"You're the smartest kid I've ever met in my life, but you haven't got the common sense God gave a screwdriver."
My neighbor's dad, circa 1967

[itzmygun]

One of my favorite "quippers" (a West Virginia boy), Coach John McKay (Tampa Bay Buccaneers) - -

"Statistics and records are baseball talk. They keep records like most times sliding into second base on a Tuesday."

"We didn't tackle well today but we made up for it by not blocking."

On place-kicker Pete Rajecki having a bad camp with the Bucs because McKay made him nervous: "I don't think he's got much of a future here, because I plan on going to all the games."

Reporter: "What did you think of your team's execution today, coach?"
McKay: "I think it's a good idea."

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"I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am." - From Monty Python's Flying Circus

[ko_kyi]

Tried bibliofind.com?

[Complacent Sheeple]

bump

[Khepera]

I don't know where we are going but we are on our way.

[corlorde]

"I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me, to make me less afraid, more accessible, to loosen my heart until it becomes a wing, a torch, a promise. I choose to risk my significance; to live so that which comes to me as seed goes to the next as blossom and that which comes to me as blossom, goes on as fruit."

~~Dawna Markova


"Don't ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."

~~Harold Whitman


"Without the home of the Brave, there would be no Lnad of the free"


“Let me be a free man.
Free to travel. Free to stop.
Free to work. Free to choose my own teachers.
Free to follow the religion of my fathers.
Free to think and talk and act for myself.”

~~ Chief Joseph
Nez Perce Indian Tribe

[Orion78]

"The death of fear is in doing what you fear to do." - Sequichie Comingdeer