What are your favorite quotes?

brilliant minds | September 21, 2015 | None

[MarvinStinson]

TALK DOES NOT COOK RICE.

[central_va]

My dear you are ugly, but tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be ugly

Winston Churchill

[broken_clock]

“They that can give up essential liberty to
obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither
liberty nor safety.” - Ben Franklin

[stanne]

Good one

[Freestate316]

“If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.”

[21twelve]

That's a really good quote.

The one that popped into my head is not as profound -

“Life is tough. It's even tougher when you're stupid.” (John Wayne)

“Time is fleeting.” My old man. I hated it when he would say that to me as a kid. Now I realize he was right.

I hope that some day my kids will recall on some thread my “quotes”:

Rules of life:
1) Life isn't fair.
2) Nothing’s easy.
3) It's always something.
4) God is Sovereign.

[Nervous Tick]

Jewish cowboys, eh? :-)

[Varmint Al]

Good Hunting... from Varmint Al

• "The thing about quotes on the Internet is you can't confirm their validity" - Abraham Lincoln, 1863
• Gun control is like trying to solve drunk driving by banning sober people from owning cars.
• It doesn’t take any guts for someone to applaud when others are already clapping.” Cody Lundin
• “Tax is when the government makes you pay more for somethn’ than it’s worth” For Better or for Worse comic strip
• “A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged, and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is held.”  Jeff Cooper
• “When the people find they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.” Benjamin Franklin
• “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money.” Alexis De Tocqueville
• “Liberals would rather be captain of a sinking ship than a passenger on a sound ship.” Varmint Al
• Corollary: “Liberals would damage a sound ship in order to gain command and ‘fix’ it.” Varmint Al
• My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dogs thinks I am.
• If your dog is fat, you aren’t getting enough exercise.
• “Hold my beer while I run the calculation.” Redneck Engineer
• The critical thinking required for engineering analysis is hard work and like weight lifting for the brain.
• “Ignorance is most expensive commodity we pay for in this country.” Rush
• “If we don’t change direction soon, we’ll end up where we’re going.” Irwin Corey
• An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
• “In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.” Thomas Sowell
• A golf course is a sad misuse of a perfectly good rifle range.
• “The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.” Abraham Lincoln

[DiogenesLamp]

The most frightening nine words in the English language are “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” — Ronald Reagan

My favorite Reagan quote:

"The problem with our opponents is not that they are ignorant... it's that they know so much which isn't so. "

[kaehurowing]

“Sun is warm, grass is green.” Mr. Miyagi

[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

[stanne]

Gspurlock - Wow

Again:

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

[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

[Still Thinking]

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” — Benjamin Franklin (I think there is some doubt about this attribution)

[Still Thinking]

That one made my list too!

[Freestate316]

The greatest quote ever!

[Auntie Mame]

Wow, wow, wow.

[DiogenesLamp]

That is also a very good Solzhenitsyn quote. You beat me to it.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

"The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in."

G. K. Chesterton

"April is the cruelest month"

T. S. Eliot

[Alberta's Child]

"If you ain't God or George Strait, then take them boots off."

--- old cowboy proverb