Thread: Quotes

"How much easier its to be critical than to be correct."

~Benjamin Disraeli~

How full of briers is this working-day world!
— William Shakespeare, As You Like It

"When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm."

~Dan Heist~

Today, hapless, truth-challenged tax cheat Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner officially unveils another $1 trillion magic trick. Instead of letting failed banks fail, we’ll have another desperately massive and massively desperate attempt to prop them up through a “public private partnership investment program.” -- Michelle Malkin

Somehow, Geithner (and Obama by implication) believes that igniting a bidding war between hedge funds and private equity over a bag of cow manure will inspire confidence that there’s gold in the bag. Such insanity cannot possibly work, which means it won’t. -- Mike Shedlock

We have seen the best of our time: machinations, hollowness, treachery, and all ruinous disorders, follow us disquietly to our graves.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things.
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have."
~Louis E. Boone~

If a thing loves, it is infinite.
— William Blake

"If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. "

~John le Carre~

One that I read recently seemed to sum it all up. Hope I get this right.'The reason we are so easily fooled is because at the end of the day we have become experts at fooling ourselves.' Ah this is so so true.

The arts of power and its minions are the same in all countries and in all ages. It marks its victim; denounces it; and excites the public odium and the public hatred, to conceal its own abuses and encroachments.
— Henry Clay

By comparison, the Carter administration is starting to look like a model of manly strength, courage and patriotism. -- Ralph Peters

"There should be no more golden parachutes, there should be no more bonuses, distribution of free shares or stock-options in a firm that receives state aid or which is about to lay off people,"

~ President Nicolas Sarkozy~

"The baby boomers are mostly responsible for the drug problem in the USA. The Woodstock generation thought it was cool to get stoned, and that has carried over and gotten even worse in our permissive society."

~ Bill O'Reilly /Talking Points ~

"Was the fuss over AIG a sign of a new populist mood in America? Or was it just a storm in a teacup?"

~The Economist ~

"The crisis is too serious for us to hold a summit for nothing,
France is prepared to "walk away" from the G20 summit if it fails to secure agreement on issues it wants."

~Finance Minister Christine Lagarde~

"There's an awful lot of hatred toward America in this world, most of it unjustified."

~Talking Points~

I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person." --- USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux

A handsome man guards his image a while;
a good man will one day take on beauty.
— Sappho

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. Well, that’s how I feel. He is an absolutely reprehensible person." --- USA Today columnist and Pacifica Radio talk show host Julianne Malveaux

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for clarity : a quote dated November 4, 1994 on Justice Clarence Thomas

Ted Kennedy's reason for seeking amnesty for those sneaking across the Rio Grande:
"I just can't bare the thought of anyone drowning in a river while trying to make a better life for themselves."
Priceless.

"Roughly one American in ten still believes, incorrectly, that Mr Obama is a Muslim."

~The Economist~

"Watch out, France and Co, there is a new surrender monkey on the block and, over the next four years, he will spectacularly sell out the interests of the West with every kind of liberal-delusionist initiative on nuclear disarmament and sitting down to negotiate with any power freak who wants to buy time to get a good ICBM fix on San Francisco, or wherever. If you thought the world was a tad unsafe with Dubya around, just wait until President Pantywaist gets into his stride." -- LindaSoG