"Quotes"-Please post your favorites here!

"If everyone is thinking alike, someone isn't thinking."'

- General George Patton Jr

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. Someday you'll join us and the world will live as one."
Imagine---John Lennon

[Preacher]

"War is not about dying for your country. It's about making the other poor, dumb bastard die for his!" - Gen. George S. Patton

[Jimbo]

Ask not, what your country can do for you...Ask what you can do for your country. J.F.K.

[sidecar]

the key to being a good manager is to keep the people who hate me away from the people that are still undecided. casey stengle.

[Twmaster]

No good deed goes unpunished. :D

[sidecar]

a people that values it's privileges above it's principles soon loses both. dwight david eisenhower.


it's not the size of the dog in a fight,it's the size of the fight in the dog. dwight david eisenhower.


art is making something out of nothing and selling it. frank zappa.

[Mare]

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[Mare]

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

I thought this one might find a happy home here on this forum! :rofl:

[sidecar]

who the hell is larry hardiman? :thinking: :thinking: :thinking: :brightidea: :noclue:

[sidecar]

Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off. General Colin Powell

[Harry]

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of Property, are the Rulers.

ARISTOTLE

[D_Green]

While watching the weather forcasts for much of the NE, I was reminded of a saying by my Grandfather. I first heard it after complaining of the heat, and wishing for winter, while stacking peanuts one summer.

GF said "As you grow older, you will realize that there are more shade trees than fires"

And yeah, I dislike cold weather...

[Mack5]

"In questions of power, then, let no more be said of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

Thomas Jefferson

[Molly]

Life is like a baby shirt, short and full of shit.

Quoter unknown,

[Arky]

"Shoot low sherriff, he's ridin' a Shetland", Author unknown, but it's sure got me a lot of laughs over the years :)

[Larry Badger]

There be a list of ten of 'em that I try to live by.

While there are many other good ones, most tend to pale in comparison. Many also derive their origins from the original 10.

[Preacher]

Amen Larry! :)

[Jimbo]

Not an exact quote, but rather as close as I can remember it:

Those who are willing to trade freedom for security, deserve niether.
I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said that, but I'm having a senoir moment over here.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
-- Aristotle

[Preacher]

Jimbo, I think it's called "Sometimers"! :wacko:

"It'll feel better when it quits hurting" my father (tr1)


"Thank God for the ignorant, they're what makes us special" tr2


"If everyone were in fact created equal, their would be a lottery for all jobs...you could just as easily be a janitor or a doctor." tr2

[merkurfan]

I have heard it this way "those that give up a little bit of freedom for a little bit of security will in the end, have niether"

Kind of like the frog in the pot, slow and steady till it's boiling. then it is to late.

[Munchkin]

WOMEN AND CATS WILL DO AS THEY PLEASE. MEN AND DOGS SHOULD RELAX AND GET USED TO IT.

:D

[Munchkin]

and one more. . .

There is only one quality worse then hardness of the heart
and that is softness of the head ! - - Theodore Roosevelt

[Preacher]

I have a couple from my mentor and teacher Kenneth E Hagin.

When someone did something really stupid he'd say:
"Bless their darlin' little hearts and their stupid little heads!"

Or if he was trying to teach you something, and it was messin' with your thinkin', he'd say:
"Don't look at me like a west Texas frog caught in a hail storm!"

[67NOVA]

Let's see if I can remember how this goes!

We are the willing
led by the ungratefuf
to do the impossible

We have done so much
for so long, with so little
that we feel that
we can do anything with
nothing at all!

:noclue:

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

Aesop

[woobergoober]

"It is much easier to ask for fogiveness, than to beg for permission."
- Anonymous

"What we have ourselves here, is a failure to communicate!"
-Paul Newman in Cool Han Luke

"I did not have relations with that woman, Ms. Monica Lewinsky!"
- William Jefferson Clinton (that ones for McBride)

"Ward, I thought you were a little hard on the Beaver last night."
- Barbara Billingsley in Leave it To Beaver

"Higher gas prices are a sign of a failed presidency."
~Dick Cheney, 1998