He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form.
Marcus Aurelius
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr Seuss
From here on BLF in the thread :
Pop/soda can aluminum
“If you find yourself in a dark room with molten aluminum… hold very still… and re-evaluate your decision-making ability.”
- Joshk
“Nil Carborundum Illegitamae.”
-Don’t let the bastards grind you down.
Was a favourite of one of my teachers.
“A genius is essentially a non-conformist.”
Max Rafferty- “Suffer Little Children”
It’s like deja-vu, all over again.
Yogi B.
You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa
Everywhere I go, there I am.
Give a man a fish, you”ll have one less fish.
-The “bad quotes” Safe Auto commercial
I could agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.”
I once lived with a family in the middle of nowhwere in Florida. The “dad” was quite a character and would blurt out all sorts of redneck wisdom, especially after a few beers, for example:
“If the trees had pu**s, we’d do away with women.”
“All babies are born male; they just pull the d*s off the dumb ones.”
......or as Einstein would say "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"
“I much prefer ‘Dangerous’ Freedom to ‘Peaceful’ Slavery”.
- Thomas Jefferson
“Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.”
- John V. Lindsay
“Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy.”
- Ayn Rand
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“You’ve been given a Republic, if you can keep it”
- Benjamin Franklin
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of
”liberalism”, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day
America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened”.
- Norman Thomas (U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate from 1928 to 1948)
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-
armed lamb contesting the vote.” Benjamin Franklin, 1759
My reading of history convinces me
that most bad government results from too much government.
Thomas Jefferson
“He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation” -James A. Garfield
“A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough
to take it all away.”
- Barry Goldwater
“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the
United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.”
- Samual Adams
“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms… disarm only those who are neither
inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the
assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than
prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence
than an armed one.”
- Thomas Jefferson
“I ask sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people. To disarm the
people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.”
- George Mason
“No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
- Thomas Jefferson (Proposal Virginia Constitution, 1 T. Jefferson Papers,
334 C.J. Boyd, Ed., 1950)
“A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have
sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any
who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.”
- George Washington
“Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone
who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it
but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…The
great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might
have a gun.”
- Patrick Henry
“A man is the easiest animal to put on a leash, and the hardest to keep leashed. Even when he chooses it himself.”
-Amyrlin (Character in Robert Jordan’s “A Wheel of Time”).
“A man’s got to know his limitations”———Harry Callahan
“It’s a Madhouse! a Madhouse!!”———Astronaut George Taylor
“Tell people there’s an invisible man in the sky who created the universe, and the vast majority will believe you. Tell them the paint is wet, and they have to touch it to be sure.”
-George Carlin
Man who knows everything can learn nothing.
What, me worry?
Alfred E. Neuman
Eschew Obfuscation
'unknown'
“The flames of ignorance burn without pain. Beware the power or it will consume you before you know.”
— The Book Of Origin
Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.
Some guy hit my car fender the other day, and I said unto him, "Be fruitful and multiply." But not in those words.
As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree"— probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
What a wonderful thing, to be conscious! I wonder what the people in New Jersey do.
I'm very proud of my gold pocket watch. My grandfather, on his deathbed, sold me this watch.
Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.
--Woody Allen
“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is
to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion,
but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.”
-Noam Chomsky