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.
The most frightening nine words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” — Ronald Reagan
“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.” — Thoreau (I might add “or storming the prison”)
“He has told you, O man, what is good;
And what does the Lord require of you
But to do justice, to love kindness,
And to walk humbly with your God?” — (Micah 6:8)
I understand that to be attributed to several people.
But I am also fond of quoting Burke.
Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, — in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, — in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, — in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
It’s faster horses
Older whiskey
Younger women
And more money -— Tom T. Hall
It always gets darkest.......... just before the lights go totally out. umgud
The profound is only so to those that it is. umgud
“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
Winston Churchill
Two Ford quotes in a row!
‘Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution. It represents the wise choice of many alternatives’ – Vince Lombardi’
Ooh good one. Vince L was so philosophical and verbose
“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”
“Citizenship in a Republic,”
Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910
This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.
I don’t feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies.
All our people are businessmen. Their loyalty is based on that.
If anything in this life is certain, if history has taught us anything, it is that you can kill anyone.
-Michael Corleone
2nd quote applies to republicans.
1 Peter 4:8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.
Context:
…7 The end of all things is near; therefore, be of sound judgment and sober spirit for the purpose of prayer. 8 Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. 9 Be hospitable to one another without complaint.…
Frig Off, Lahey!
Makes me so dizzy I look away
I like to quote Solzhenitsyn too. Here's my favorite Solzhenitsyn quote.
More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.
“Trust in GOD, but row away from the rocks.”
Old Jewish proverb, author unknown
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!
PATRICK HENRY
“Molon Labe” Leonidas. It does not translate well but means “come and get them”. Which is what Leonidas told the Persian messenger who asked them to give up their arms and surrender.
“The work never ends...always another palm to grease...always another weak sister that needs shoring-up”.
J. R. Ewing
The “difinitively” quote reminds me of what is probably another quote by someone: if you don’t know how to pronounce a word, say it loud.
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