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.
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain
Thou shalt earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow.
-Genesis 3:19
We must all go and tend our gardens.
-Voltaire
Wow...your Mother was pretty smart.
Mom quotes...
“I have eyes in the back of my head.” That one scared the bejeezus out of my little sister and me for a long time. :)
We were always on our best behavior sitting behind her, in, front of her, etc.. :)
Ever since then I have had a healthy respect for electricity.
Care to join in? :)
Fun thread! :)
If you kill enough of them, they stop fighting.
Curtis LeMay
My Mother was the daughter of a Scotsman tho their family had been in the U.S. since the 1700. She had some expressions which I have never heard anyone else use.
If it rained she would say “it came up a cloud”. A tiny baby was a bairn. A slightly larger one was a ween. She had a lot more which I can’t recall right now.
-PJ
These are great. True, too.
On that note, I highly recommend watching this short movie.
“The only thing worse than fighting with allies is fighting without them.” - Winston Churchill
Upon hearing that Italy had declared war on England as Germany’s ally: “It’s only fair; we were stuck with them in the last war.”
—Mariah Carey
Oh! I've got a Joan Rivers quote for you. It always cracks me up.
A lot of Hollywood stars aren't aware that adopting a child isn't just a photo op. I was at a dinner party where one actress had adopted a child from Africa and she was saying: "I want my children to know their heritage." I said: "Lock them in a room and throw them a jar of flies."--Joan Rivers--
- George S. Patton
"War is a terrible thing, but not the most terrible of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
- John Stuart Mill
Thank you all who contributed to this thread on favorite quotes. There are so many good ones, some I’ve read or heard before but had forgotten, some so shockingly true I’m going to have to read them again (that Heinlein quote comes to mind), some so funny and true they made me guffaw out loud.
“I am the liquor.”
-Jim Lahey, Supervisor, Sunnyvale Trailer Park.
**Plenty of work and the strength to do it.** ~ my Great Grandfather
{This admonition was written in an antique pen & ink script, hung in a frame by the front door, going out of the Homestead.] You couldn’t miss it as you opened the door to go about your day.
That was Lincoln. He had a lot of good quotes. Here's one of my favorites.
Upon being told that General Grant drank, Lincoln said:
Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results.
The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What is best in life?
Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their women.
~ Conan
(I must be having another hot flash)
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