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.
I always enjoy Mark Twain...
“Life is short, Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret ANYTHING
That makes you smile.”
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
“Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
It’s OK, you didn’t sound preachy to me at all. Good night!
“A man’s got to know his limitations.” Dirty Harry
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
‘It’s a good life if you don’t get weak.’
My ex’s grandfather. He never got weak.
“You cannot educate the willingly stupid.”
Me
It’s an irony, in my opinion
People are right to insist on one being consistent - their deeds following their words, etc.
Those assailing consistency assail it to make average people who insist on such consistency vulnerable.
It’s like, “Who you gonna believe, me, or your lying eyes?”
Isn't this quote from William A Foster instead of Vince Lombardi? I like the quote and was prepared to share with a friend of mine, therefore I checked on it first.
My results:
http://www.searchquotes.com/quotes/author/William_A_Foster/
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/quality_is_never_an_accident-it_is_always_the/226780.html
While dancing with a haughty lady, Churchill asked if she would sleep with him for a million dollars. She hesitated and said yes. He then asked if she would sleep with him for a 100 dollars. She said what kind of woman do you think I am? Churchill replied, We’ve already determined that, now we’re negotiating price.
I hope I am close on this one. If he didn’t say it he should have.
W.C. Fields when asked how he liked children replied, “Barbequed”.
When looking for something, I always find it in the last place I look. Either Me or Unknown
Dumbest question, “Where did you lose it?” Either Me or Unknown
“A hard man is good to find.” Mae West
“Do you feel lucky, punk?” Dirty Harry
”You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is”.
Will Rogers"People are like stained glass windows, they sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is light within."
- James Joyce“If you would be loved, love and be lovable.”
- Benjamin Franklin“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
Helen Keller” Each of us makes his own weather, determines the color of the skies in the emotional universe which he inhabits”
Fulton J. Sheen“He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he who loses his courage loses all.”
Miguel de Cervantes"When I die, I want to die like my grandfather who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car."
Will Rogers
. . . . . Tell me . . .
"Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
WC F He was awful but hilarious
Here is another:
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
— Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
“I aim to misbehave.” Captain Malcolm Reynolds
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