Thread: The best quotes ever

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Winston Churchill

Originally Posted by nidhogg

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Winston Churchill

He also said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."

These two quotes are great examples of Churchill's wit, but hardly of his wisdom.

"Al-Qaeda is a mortally wounded tiger that still has some life in it" -- John Brennan, CIA director

Clueless, as usual.

"Months of investigation by The New York Times, centered on extensive interviews with Libyans in Benghazi who had direct knowledge of the attack there and its context, turned up no evidence that Al Qaeda or other international terrorist groups had any role in the assault." -- New York Times, December 28, 2013

Anyone still read the NYT?

"They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?" - Paul Harvey

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

"They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?" - Paul Harvey

So they can afford their own cigars.....

“And if by some chance an honest man like yourself made enemies they would become my enemies. And then, they would fear you.” Don Corleone, The Godfather

mostly we are focused on the Future where only fear and anxiety lurk.
where the flip side of pleasure lurks also.
Thought is always always the Past butting in.
The Present moment is our only way to freedom.
But this is lost because of our conditioning.
And so we are condemned to struggle and suffer.

Suffering means,,, being a Christian, a Buddhist, a Muslim, a Jew, whatever man has touched in this area is corrupted.

And we are corrupted, through and through.

Many have written something like this.

Once more into the frey
the last good fight i'll ever know
live and die on this day
live and die in this day

from the movie THE GREY

Give rest to the minds of others, such as he Whose ignorant credulity will not Come up to the truth.

William Shakespeare - A Winter's Tale

CNN actually described the Paris jihadist murderers as "activists." So the police who finally killed these scum would be..."reactionaries?" -- James Woods

One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.
Yaser Arafat.

Multiculturalism is the twin of appeasement. -- Victor Davis Hansen

All below Albert Einstein

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

“The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.”

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources”

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?”

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”

“You never fail until you stop trying.”

“Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

“Creativity is intelligence having fun.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”

“Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work...”