Thread: Quotes

A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it’s better than no inspiration at all.
— Rita Mae Brown

Sooo.....I just have a simple query.....who are Lambik and Homer?

We could never guess.....

'"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

“Many people consider the things which government does for them to be social progress, but they consider the things government does for others as socialism”
~Earl Warren~

We are oft to blame in this,
‘Tis too much proved, that with devotion’s visage
And pious action we do sugar o’er
The devil himself.
— William Shakespeare

" A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were."
~Jean de la Bruyere~

Bush hit the nail on the head in Jerusalem and the nails are complaining now." -- John Bolton

That loss is common would not make
My own less bitter, rather more:
Too common! Never morning wore
To evening, but some heart did break.
— Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security."
~Benjamin Franklin~

We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times ... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK." -- Barack Hussein Obama, 2008

I got no kick against modern jazz
Unless they try to play it too darn fast
They change the beauty of the melody
Until it sounds just like a symphony
— Chuck Berry

"Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy is playing blues like we play, he is in high school. When he starts playing jazz it' s like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
~B. B. King~

"[Reagan and I] knew, too, what did not work, namely socialism in every shape or form. Nowadays socialism is more often dressed up as environmentalism, feminism, or international concern for human rights. All sound good in the abstract. But scratch the surface and you will as likely as not discover anti-capitalism, patronising and distorting quotas, and intrusions upon the sovereignty and democracy of nations." - Margaret Thatcher

"From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need."

~Karl Marx~

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
— Dan Quayle

"Those who climb soap boxes to preach 'tolerance' are typically the most intolerant of all. It is easy enough to prove: simply tell such preachers of intolerance that you have an opposite opinion." - Anonymous

"Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance."
~Woodrow Wilson~

"Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent." William Shakespeare



"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice. Ambrose Bierce



"The empty vessel makes the loudest sound." William Shakespeare



"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?" Benjamin Franklin



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"As anyone who's attended an "antiglobalization" protest knows, the only thing uniting the left is its hatreds--of capitalism, America and Israel. You find at these events a menagerie of special interests promoting their own little causes. But the far left today, though it styles itself "progressive," has no coherent vision of how to make the world better--in sharp contrast with today's conservative internationalists, who favor the vigorous use of U.S. diplomatic and military force to expand democracy." - James Taranto

"The level of U.S. household debt has risen consistently over the course of the century, climbing from just 33.2 percent of disposable income in 1949 to 102.2 percent in 2000, and to 131.8 percent in 2005, making it the highest ever measured in our national history." - Nan Mooney, from her book "(Not) Keeping Up with Our Parents," in Utne Reader, 5-6/08, p. 40.



"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt" - Herbert Hoover



"It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of our national stupidity" - Frank Zappa




"When President Bush took office, he inherited a budget in surplus, by $236 billion in fiscal year 2000. In his first budget message, the President proclaimed that his budget would retire nearly '$1 trillion in debt over the next four years,' an accomplishment he touted as 'the largest debt reduction ever achieved by any nation at any time.' But by the year 2004, the surplus was gone, replaced by a deficit of $413 billion-in nominal terms the largest deficit in American history. And here we are today, in the Administration's final year. Instead of retiring $1 trillion in debt, the Administration's policies will increase the debt by $4 trillion by the time the President steps down.
http://budget.house.gov/PRArticle.aspx?NewsID=1553


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"A billion here, a billion there—sooner or later it adds up to real money."
~Everett Dirksen~

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
— Mark Twain

”“The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.”
~Grover Cleveland~