[tje]

I'm sure you've heard these before, but it's a nice compilation... Add you're own...

[alwaysconservative]

Thanks for these! Some would make great tag lines. . .

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

I found how the World had been misled by prostitute Writers, to ascribe the greatest Exploits in War to Cowards, the wisest Counsel to Fools, Sincerity to Flatterers, Roman Virtue to Betrayers of their Country, Piety to Atheists, Chastity to Sodomites, Truth to Informers. (III:8;5)

Here I discovered the secret Causes of many great Events that have surprized the World, how a Whore can Govern the Back-stairs, the Back-stairs a Council, and the Council a Senate. (III:8)

There was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words multiplied for the purpose, that white is black and black is white, according as they are paid. (IV:5)

For although few Men will avow their Desires of being immortal upon such hard Conditions ... he observed that every Man desired to put off Death for sometime longer, let it approach ever so late, and he rarely heard of any Man who died willingly, except he were incited by the Extremity of Grief or Torture. (III:10;12)

"... if my Neighbour hath a Mind to my Cow, he hires a Lawyer to prove that he ought to have my Cow from me." ( IV:5;13)

It is a Maxim among these Lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again:

Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathan Swift

[crude77]

I love these kind of post. I think it points out that once upon a time education was a process in which one learned to THINK.

I don't know if anyone famous said this, but when I ask my son what he did in geography today and he says nothing-I always respond "What did the rest of the class do?"

[rudypoot]

"Status quo, you know, that is Latin for "the mess we're in."

- Ronald Reagan, March 1981

[boris]

I believe number 15 is misattributed; my recollection is that it was Judge Gideon J. Tucker who said it.

Number 17 was originally "A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other" and I think was by Mark Twain.

Here's another: "The worst thing you can do to a man is to tell him he can have what he wants."--Twain, I think