Favorite Quotes

[Michaelangelica]

Adlai Stevenson:

 

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. [1952]

 

“Borrowing pointedly from the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta ‘Iolanthe,’ she replied, to the apparent confusion of the White House press corps, ‘I don't believe that every child that's born alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative, except in Gilbert and Sullivan.’”

 

Funny: I do.

[Boerseun]

"Agnostics are merely atheists without the courage of their convictions."

 

- Carl Sagan

[modest]

Confucius was a humanist and an agnostic.

-Hu Shi

 

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

-Albert Einstein B)

[Michaelangelica]

“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of the players, (ie everybody), to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.”

Gaiman & Prattchet.

[Michaelangelica]

Mark Twain is always SO quotable

The ones I remember are

"Giving up smoking is easy. I have done it hundreds of times!"

and

"The reports of my death have been exaggerated"

 

But here is a site with a stack of them

 

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.

Was Mark Twain Racist?

 

# There is nothing training cannot do. Nothing is above its reach. It can turn bad morals to good; it can destroy bad principles and recreate good ones; it can lift men to "angelship."

 

# I never let my schooling interfere with my education.

 

# The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

 

# Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.

 

# Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

 

# Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog.

 

# Don't let school interfere with your education

Mark Twain Education

 

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

Mark Twain Insults

 

 

# Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.

Mark Twain Satire

[Boerseun]

The First Law of Philosophy:

For any conceivable philosophy, there will be an equal but opposite philosophy.

 

The Second Law of Philosophy:

They're both wrong.

 

 

 

- can't remember who said it, unfortunately...

[freeztar]

"That's nearly a million every day, every working day he's been in Congress," McCain said. "And when you look at some of the planetariums and other foolishness that he asked for, he shouldn't be saying anything about Governor Palin." :beer:

[DougF]

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

 

Norman Vincent Peale

[Turtle]

I may fight for truth, justice, and the American way, but I live for the well-received witty reposte. ~Roger Thelonious George

[goku]

me and nancy where walking through a grave yard and came upon a tomstone that said, here lies a pollitian and an honest man. i said, look nancy two men burried in the same grave.

Ronald Regan

[Turtle]

I am, therefore I think. ~ Roger Thelonious George

[Moontanman]

I either want less corruption in government or more of a chance to benefit from it....

 

from a demotivational poster

[DougF]

“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on and individual level. It's got to happen inside first. You can take away a man's political freedom and you won't hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can't be granted. Nobody can win it for you.”~~Jim Morrison

[goku]

you do not win a war by dying for your country, you win a war by making the other S.O.B. die for his country!

Patton

[Turtle]

A nation can be impoverished by the army when it has to supply the army at great distances. ~Sun Tzu

[Turtle]

If people were meant to be angels, they'd be born with wings. ~ Roger Thelonious George

[Turtle]

You can't climb up on the backs of others, until you lift them up to at least your knees. ~Roger Thelonious George