Favorite Quotes

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

I wrote these……I did not take them from someone else!! lol!

There are Two in my signature,here are several more:

Physical beauty temporarily satisfies the eye. Inner beauty is eternal and nurtures the soul.


A liar will eventually get entangled in their own web. The satisfaction of that alone is all the revenge one needs!


It is only when I reveal my TRUE self that I can learn who I am. By revealing it to others I not only learn who I am but who my TRUE friends are.


Ignore ignorance with compassion.


Don’t let the pain from your past close the door to your future.


A relationship is like a mirror. They both give us an opportunity to look at ourselves.


A resentment is a cancer that eats us away from the inside and is portrayed by our attitude from the outside.


A failure is not a failure unless we fail to recognize that something needs to be changed.


,I hope someone got something out of them. That is enough for now. :wink:

“Sorry don’t get it done, Dude.”

-John T. Chance (Rio Bravo)

“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.”

-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”

-Oscar Wilde

“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Victor Frankl

Improvement is our evolutionary obligation to humankind.
Sal Glesser

“Life is flux……the only constant is change.”

“All lasting and meaningful change starts on the inside and works it’s way out.”

“Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in your own.”
Adam Lindsay Gordon

“The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.”
William James

“I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being , let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
William Penn

“Stop making the perfect the enemy of the good.”

“This above all: to thine ownself be true.”
William Shakespeare

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

“Life is a mirror, if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.”
William Makepeace Thackeray

“He is a man of sense who does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he has.”
Epictetus

“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
Dr Seuss

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.”
Nelson Mandela

“The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.”
Dolly Parton

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”
Oscar Wilde

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
Carl Gustav Jung

“We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future.”
F. Douglass

“We all die, just a question of when.”

“Fate whispers to the warrior, ‘You cannot withstand the storm,’” And the warrior whispers back, ‘I am the storm.’”

“Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.”
Lao Tzu

“Stop worrying about the world ending today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.”
Charles Schulz

WORK:

It always does seem to me that I am doing more work than I should do. It is not that I object to the work, mind you; I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me: the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart.

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen.

Jerome K. Jerome