Give me quotes or give me death!

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty. ~ Plato



Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty. ~ Plato



Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. ~ Plato



At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ~ Plato

 

We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before, and it does not work... I say after eight years of this administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started -- and an enormous debt to boot." - Henry Morgenthau (FDR's Treasury Secretary)

 

"There's a pubic hair in my ice cube."

- RO

 

"What doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"Officer! This man was blatantly trying to turn in the turning lane! How dare he?!?!?! I was using it as a passing lane, like every red-blooded American should!"

- RO after a small fender bender on Friday the 13th.

 

"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It gives one a sudden start in going down a bare, stony street to see upon a narrow strip of grass, just within the iron fence, the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, like a spark dropped from the sun." - Henry Ward Beecher

"Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home." - Matsuo Basho

"I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on the wall in my apartment, but I know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries." - Thomas Mallon

"Omelettes are not made without breaking eggs." - Maximilien Francois Robespierre

"He that looketh upon a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart." - C.S. Lewis

"Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it." - Bill Monroe

"Life is like a bunch of thumbtacks. You never know which one is going to pr*ck you first." - anonymous

"If you want to be the most popular person in your class, whenever the professor pauses in his lecture, just let out a big snort and say, "How do you figger that?" real loud. Then lean back and sort of smirk. - Jack Handy

"Bill Brasky once used a rattle snake as a condom!" - SNL skit

"Would SOMEBODY please close the goddamn cupboard door????" - Ali

 

If your kid says Michael Phelps smokes pot, why can't I? You can now say "YOU CAN, JUST AFTER YOU WIN 12 GOLD MEDALS FOR YOUR COUNTRY" Seth SNL
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and in the end...
the love you take...
is equal to the love you make...
The Beatles​

 

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. ~ I don't know, but sounds right.

 

First of all, let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
32nd President
(1933-1945)​

Hay Obama! Are You listing?

 

Women. Nice ones, the most frigid of the race, it doesn't matter in the end. Inside they're all the same meat and gristle and hatred just simmering. --Chad from movie In the Company of Men

---I can't get no....male validation--Emkay

 

Women. Black, white, Asian, Hispanic, Arab. It doesn't matter. They're all pink in the middle. ~ Me

 

You sound like you're ordering a steak with cheesy hash browns on the side.

 

Don't worry about avoiding temptation ... as you grow older, it will avoid you.
- Winston Churchill

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.
- Will Rogers

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
- Mae West

 

This one is for Eddo:
Every fight is a food fight when youre a cannibal.
-- Demetri Martin

 

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still. ~ Frederick W. Faber



That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful. ~ Edgar Allan Poe



What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind. ~ Buddha

 

"My first instinct was to kill the spider. I watched it scurry across the floor, so I took a running leap and landed on top of it with the heel of my right foot. I stood over the spider's carcass smiling with satisfaction, then decided she wasn't dead enough. So with the heel of my right foot, I viciously ground the spider's carcass into the concrete. Then I picked up the remnants, put it in an old coffee can, doused it with lighter fluid, stood back, lit a match, and dropped it inside. Mmmm... black widow flambeau!"

- RO after a nasty black widow bite Sunday morning.

 

"Every government interference in the economy consists of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force, to some men at the expense of others." ~ Ayn Rand

 

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

- H.L. Mencken

 

"Free Mamograms!"


Me, every October at the local university, doing my part to help in Breast Cancer Awareness month.