Signature wisdom

[Amelia]

Pity Is For The Living, Envy Is For The Dead. ~Mark Twain 1897

Do Not Go Where The Path May Lead.
Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail........
~Emerson



(Dabs)

 

[Amelia]

There are two rules for success. 1) Never tell everything you know. 2)



(Zander)

 

[Ringel05]

"It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate."
Dave Barry

"What's on your mind, if you will allow the overstatement?"
Fred Allen

 

[percysunshine]

Where ever you go, there you are.

 

[American Horse]

"Never kick a horse turd; it may become your commanding officer"

Marine Corp maxim

 

[Mr.Nick]

Never kick a horse turd, it may become your commanding officer

(USMC axiom)

Never tip a cow - it may tip in the wrong direction.

- Mr Nick.

 

[Mr.Nick]

One more funny one..

When being bickered at by a dissenting elitist at a dinner party -

'Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!'

Churchill: "And if you were my wife, I would drink it!"

- Winston Churchill

Another Churchill dialog with Lady Astor:

Lady Astor: Winston, you are drunk

Churchill: And you are ugly, but I will be sober come morning.

Regardless of politics Churchill and Reagan were hilarious people....

 

[Mr.Nick]

"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."

- Winston Churchill

Churchill never said it.

Even if he had, it wouldn't mean then what it would mean now.

Says who?

 

[percysunshine]

The game of Golf would have been called 'Shit', except the name was already taken.

 

[Mr.Nick]

The game of Golf would have been called 'Shit', except the name was already taken.

I like golf (playing it) but that is funny.

 

[American Horse]

"If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty you have no brain."

- Winston Churchill

Churchill never said it.

Even if he had, it wouldn't mean then what it would mean now.

Says who?

It is most often attributed to Churchill. But a different version of it was first said by Francois Guisot, a French monarchist statesman:

“Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.”
(Said in reference to whether France should be a republic or a monarchy.)

It was later adapted by French Premier Georges Clemenceau:

“Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.”

 

[Mr.Nick]

Churchill never said it.

Even if he had, it wouldn't mean then what it would mean now.

Says who?

It is most often attributed to Churchill. But a different version of it was first said by Francois Guisot, a French monarchist statesman:

“Not to be a republican at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.”
(Said in reference to whether France should be a republic or a monarchy.)

It was later adapted by French Premier Georges Clemenceau:

“Not to be a socialist at twenty is proof of want of heart; to be one at thirty is proof of want of head.”

Churchill then quoted it.......

I still like it none the less..

 

[Amelia]

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." ~Martin Luther King, Jr.

"When you really pay attention, everything is your teacher." ~Ezra Bayda



(Wolfsister77)

 

[Ropey]

"Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides."

- Jim Gaffigan

 

[Darkwind]

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences."--- C.S. Lewis

(Trajan)

should this be in the religion thread?

I don't follow that logic.

The quote applies more to the busybodies in government forcing us to their morality than a group of greedy land grabbers.

It kind of flows from the notion that society must be messaged, engineered, and guided along the paths that they determine.

I can think of nothing worse.

 

[g5000]

There were once three frogs on a log and one of them made a decision to jump in. How many were left?

Three.

 

[g5000]

You can't save face and your ass at the same time.

 

[Darkwind]

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.


P. J. O'Rourke

Prophecy, that one is.

 

[g5000]

Never kick a horse turd, it may become your commanding officer

(USMC axiom)

During one of my tours, we had an expression for when things were going badly: It's a big shit sandwich, and everyone's gotta take a bite.

 

[Amelia]

Orwell was a friggin' optimist



(HenryBHough)