Random Profound Statements
 

1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
-- John Adams

2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
-- Mark Twain

3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain

4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle .
-- Winston Churchill

5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw

6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
-- G. Gordon Liddy

7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-- Ronald Reagan (1986)

12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
-- Will Rogers

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
-- P.J. O'Rourke

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-- Voltaire (1764)

15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-- Pericles (430 B.C.)

16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-- Mark Twain (1866)

17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-- Anonymous

18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan

19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-- Winston Churchill

20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-- Mark Twain

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

22. There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress.
-- Mark Twain

23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-- Thomas Jefferson

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Golf is like an 18-year-old girl with big boobs. You know it's wrong but you can't keep away from her. ~Val Doonican

life is hard. it's harder when you are stupid.

timing. it's all in the timing.

...if you think education is expensive, try ignorance

(saw that on a bumper sticker long ago)

Its easy to count the seeds in an apple, but who can count the apples in a seed.
Anonymous

Its alright letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back
Anonymous

First say to yourself what you would be, and then do what you have to do
Epictetus

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle
Plato

If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Benjamin Franklin

I could go on forever...

"Want to have sex with me?"- Me, drunk...

And when you are sober...

"On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time." -George Orwell

"Never deny your own experience or convictions 'for the sake of peace and quiet.'" -Dag Hammarskjold

"The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery." -Anais Nin

"I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice." -Abraham Lincoln

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." -JFK

"Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State." -Thomas Jefferson

"What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him." -Viktor Frankl

"If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it." -Marcus Aurelius

"Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." -Robert Heinlein

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea." -Antoine de Saint-Euxpery

"Sanity may be madness but the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be." -Don Quixote

"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it." -Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The doors of Heaven and Hell are adjacent, and identical." -Nikos Kazantzakis

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil." -Hannah Arendt

"Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." -Benjamin Disraeli

"It is not incumbent upon you to finish the work, but neither can you be excused from doing it." -Rabbi Tarfon

"Who is wise? He who learns from every man. Who is strong? He who masters his urges. Who is rich? He who is content with his lot in life. Who is honorable? He who honors others." -Rabbi Ben-Zoma

"Do not seek to appease a man at the height of his anger; do not seek to make him feel fully comforted him while his dead still lies before him; do not take him to task about his vow the moment he makes it; and do not endeavor to visit him unsolicited at the time of his degradation." Rabbi Shimon ben Elazar

"If one man tells you 'you're an ass,' pay him no heed. But if many tell you so, go buy yourself a saddle."" -Talmud

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
-Vernon Law





-Rage against the machine
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"Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm."

-Donella Meadows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donella_Meadows

Non calor sed umor est qui nobis incommodat.

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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

- Aphra Behn

(stolen from a friends's FB quote)

"It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system." - Dan Quayle, the original Sarah Palin

"golf is the grassy mistress..."

- cdwonderful

another arrow to the sig here.
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"You guys have really intelligent conversations"
-some dumb girl I met at a party