What are your favorite quotes?

brilliant minds | September 21, 2015 | None

[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.

[WENDLE]

My favorite quote of all time is “I WILL BUILD THE WALL”!!!

[Still Thinking]

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

[DiogenesLamp]

And this quote is very apt for the current period of history.

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”

― H.L. Mencken

[gspurlock]

Be not intimidated... nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice ~ John Adams

[yarddog]

I bet “The Godfather” is the most quoted movie ever.

[Fiddlstix]

[Eccl 10:2]

“Hindsight is 20/20. Foresight is 50/50.” - Eccl 10:2

[DiogenesLamp]

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

Reminds me of this:

Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.

This is known as “bad luck.”

--Robert Heinlein--

[Still Thinking]

“It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.” — Mark Twain

“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.” — Will Rogers

[Alberta's Child]

Two of my favorites are from legendary hockey coaches:

"Take the shortest path to the puck and arrive in ill humor." -- Fred Shero

"Risk something, or forever sit with your dreams." -- Herb Brooks

[doorgunner69]

Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not.

Frank Zappa

[DiogenesLamp]

Admission: I don’t understand the “hobgoblin” quote. Just never made sense to me.

It deals with those people, I refer to them as "process Nazis", who have a procedure or methodology, and cannot deviate from it, even when it is nonsensical.

It is a foolish consistency, and it is often insisted upon by little minds.

Examples abound, most often in interactions with governing officials.

[gspurlock]

If ever the Time should come, when vain & aspiring Men shall possess the highest Seats in Government, our Country will stand in Need of its experienced Patriots to prevent its Ruin ~ Samuel Adams

[re_nortex]

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

[dp0622]

I agree.

Women and children can afford to be careless. Men can’t...

Maybe not as true as back then, but still holds water.

[gspurlock]

If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! ~ Samuel Adams

[Alberta's Child]

"Trust your neighbor, but brand your cattle."

--- old cowboy proverb

[yarddog]

“But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk and not faint.”

Isiah 40:31 KJV

[henkster]

“I’d rather be lucky than good” -Lefty Gomez

[Still Thinking]

“I swear to God Big Guy, I thought turkeys could fly!” — Herb Tarlek

“If God didn’t want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?” — Homer Simpson