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Sometimes, when I look at my children, I say to myself ~~"Lillian, you should have remained a virgin." -- Lillian Carter (mother of Jimmy Carter)
I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement. -- Mark Twain
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible. -- George Burns
Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. - - Victor Borge
Be careful about reading health books.. You may die of a misprint. -- Mark Twain
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx
Only Irish coffee provides, in a single glass, all four essential food groups: alcohol , caffeine, sugar and fat. -- Alex Levine
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap. -- Bob Hope
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. -- W.C. Fields
We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. -- Will Rogers
Don't worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it will avoid you. -- Winston Churchill
Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty . but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. -- Phyllis Diller
By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. -- Billy Crystal
The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out.
Give me a sense of humor, Lord;
Give me the grace to see a joke,
To get some humor out of life,
And pass it on to other folk.
I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall." -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Last week, I stated this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister, and now wish to withdraw that statement. -- Mark Twain
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible. -- George Burns
Santa Claus has the right idea. Visit people only once a year. - - Victor Borge
Be careful about reading health books.. You may die of a misprint. -- Mark Twain
By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury. -- Groucho Marx
Only Irish coffee provides, in a single glass, all four essential food groups: alcohol , caffeine, sugar and fat. -- Alex Levine
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything until noon. Then it's time for my nap. -- Bob Hope
I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it. -- W.C. Fields
We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. -- Will Rogers
Don't worry about avoiding temptation as you grow older, it will avoid you. -- Winston Churchill
Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty . but everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. -- Phyllis Diller
By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. -- Billy Crystal
The cardiologist's diet: If it tastes good, spit it out.
Give me a sense of humor, Lord;
Give me the grace to see a joke,
To get some humor out of life,
And pass it on to other folk.
Comments
"If you got'em smoke'em we're goin down."
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.--Winston Churchill
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. --George Bernard Shaw
A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money. -- G. Gordon Liddy
Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. --James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. --Douglas Casey, Classmate of W.J.Clinton at Georgetown U. (1992)
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J.O'Rourke Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. --Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it. -- Ronald Reagan (1986)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. --Will Rogers
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free. --P.J. O'Rourke
If you want government to intervene domestically, you're a liberal. If you want government to intervene overseas, you're a conservative. If you want government to intervene everywhere, you're a moderate. If you don't want government to intervene anywhere, you're an extremist. --Joseph Sobran, Editor of the National Review at one time (1995)
In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -Voltaire (1764)
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. --Pericles (430 B.C.)
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session. --Mark Twain (1866)
Talk is cheap-except when Congress does it. (Unknown)
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. --Ronald Reagan
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. --Winston Churchill
The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. --Mark Twain
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. --Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress. --Mark Twain
There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. --P.J. O'Rourke (1993)
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. - Edward Langley, Artist 1928-1995
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- Unknown
"Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think."
- Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and novelist (1804-1881)
"Courage is the price life exacts for peace."
- Amelia Earhart, American aviator (1897-1937)
"Courage is being scared to death - and saddling up anyway."
- John Wayne, actor
"The mighty oak was once a little nut that stood its ground."
- Unknown
"Courage is like a muscle; it is strengthened by use."
- Ruth Gordon, American actress
"No one reaches a high position without daring."
- Syrus
"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or we grow weak, and at last some crisis shows us what we have become."
- Bishop Westcott
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety."
- H. L. Mencken, American journalist and humorist (1880-1956)
"I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him."
- Eleanor Roosevelt, American stateswoman, First Lady (1884-1962)
"Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what nerves let you do."
- Bruce Crampton
"The art of living lies not in eliminating but in growing with troubles."
- Bernard M. Baruch, 20th-century American financier
"All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it gentlemans you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble."
- William S. Halsey
"Fortunately for themselves and the world, nearly all men are cowards and dare not act on what they believe. Nearly all our disasters come of a few fools having the "courage of their convictions."
- Coventry Patmore
"It isn't the absence of conscience or values that prevents us from being all we should be, it is simply the lack of moral courage."
- Michael Josephson, late 20th-century American ethicist
"To see what is right and not to do it is cowardice."
- Confucius (K'ung-Fu-tzu), Chinese philosopher (551-479 B.C.)
"One man with courage makes a majority."
- Andrew Jackson, American military hero and U.S. president (1767-1845)
"It is better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees."
- Albert Camus, French "existentialist" novelist (1913-1960)
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
- William Shakespeare, English dramatist (1564-1616)
"Cowardice. . . is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
- Ernest Hemingway, American novelist (1899-1961)
"Courage easily finds its own eloquence."
- Plautus, Roman comic dramatist (c. 254-184 B.C.)
"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear."
- William Congreve, English dramatist (1670-1729)
"The basest of all things is to be afraid."
- William Faulkner, American novelist (1897-1962)
"In times of stress, be bold and valiant."
- Horace, Roman poet (65-8 B.C.)
"Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen."
- Pliny the Younger, Roman judge and author (61-113 A.D.)
"Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.'"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist, public philosopher and poet (1803-1882)
"The world has no room for cowards."
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist and adventurer (1850-1894)
"If you let fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin."
- Katharine Butler Hathaway
"Proust has pointed out that the predisposition to love creates its own objects; is this not also true of fear?"
- Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (1899-1973)
"What you are afraid to do is a clear indicator of the next thing you need to do."
- Unknown
"When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."
- George Orwell (Eric Blair), English journalist and novelist (1903-1950)
"If we could be heroes, if just for one day."
- David Bowie, 20th-century English pop music performer
"One must think like a hero merely to behave like a decent human being."
- May Barton
"What worries you, masters you."
- Haddon W. Robinson
"And each man stand with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can."
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (1806-1861)
"Necessity makes even the timid brave."
- Sallust, Roman historian and politician (c. 86-c. 35 B.C
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
- Max Lerner
The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse. - Jacqueline Kennedy
There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl. - Joan Rivers
I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five. - Mick Jagger
It's a drag having to wear socks during matches, because the tan, like, stops at the ankles. I can never get my skin, like, color coordinated. - Monica Seles
Sometimes I feel like an old hooker. - Cher
"Any excuse will serve a tyrant." ---Aesop
"Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because if there be
one he must approve of the homage of reason more than that of blindfolded fear.
-Thomas Jefferson, August 10, 1787"
Volenti non fit injuria
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Save, research, then buy the best.Join the NRA, NOW!Teach them young, teach them safe, teach them forever, but most of all, teach them to VOTE!
- Mark Twain
2) I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
- Winston Churchill
3) A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw
4) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
5) Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown Uuniversity
6) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
7) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
- Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)
8) Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
- Ronald Reagan (1986)
9) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
- Will Rogers
10) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
- P.J. O'Rourke
11) In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
- Voltaire (1764)
12)Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
- Pericles (430 B.C)
13) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
- Mark Twain (1866)
14) Talk is cheap .. except when Congress does it.
- Unknown
15) The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
- Winston Churchill
16) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
- Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
17) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
- Thomas Jefferson
when I was 21 how smart they had become..in only 3 years.
Mark Twain
"If your gonna be stupid, go find a democrat."
then He made a school board."
Mark Twain
And, on a lighter note, "If all the blondes in the world
were laid end to end...I wouldn't be surprised."
Dorothy Parker
Good Deal, Nunn!
"...Abby someone""Abby who"..."Abby Normal"