Good Quotes Part Deux

Life is an endless struggle full of frustrations and challenges, but eventually you find a hairdresser you like.

subtract the "hourlies" and you have a mess

subtract the suits and you have a well oiled macine.

subtract the "hourlies" and you have a mess

subtract the suits and you have a well oiled machine.

Pity poor old George Washington. He couldn't blame his troubles on the previous administration

People are strange: they want the front of the bus, the back of the church and the center of attention.

Life is full of uncertainty, but I could be wrong about that.

"I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days attack me at once."

"A well-trained dog will make no attempt to share your lunch. He will just make you feel so guilty that you cannot enjoy it." (Helen Thomson)

All - Time Best Quote

In a recent interview, General Norman Schwartzkopf was asked
if he thought there was room for forgiveness toward the people
who have harbored and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated
the 9/11 attacks on America.

His answer was classic Schwartzkopf. The General said:

"I believe that forgiving them is God's function. OUR
job is to arrange the meeting."

The world has so many problems that if Moses had come down from Mount Sinai today, the two tablets he carried would be aspirin.

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

"My wife and I had words---- but I never got to use mine."

Fibber McGee

GREAT LITERARY TAUNTS

I feel so miserable without you, it's almost like having you here."
-Stephen Bishop

"A modest little person, with much to be modest about."
- Winston Churchill

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure."
- Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."
- William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)


"He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others."
-Samuel Johnson

"He had delusions of adequacy."
- Walter Kerr

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
-Groucho Marx

"They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge."
- Thomas Brackett Reed

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him."
- Forrest Tucker

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork."
- Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
-Oscar Wilde

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends."
-Oscar Wilde

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music."
-Billy Wilder

"Where there's a will.......there's relatives."

"Goals are met when we coordinate our efforts with those of others."

"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."

Katherine Hepburn

I put on a peekaboo blouse. He peeked and booed."

Phyllis Diller

A neurotic person builds castles in the sky. A psychotic person lives in those castles. A psychiatrist collects rent from both.

To err is human, but to really f*@# things up requires a committee.

Many things can wait. Children cannot. Today their bones are being formed, their blood is being made, their senses are being developed. To them we cannot say "tomorrow". Their name is today.

"Save our planet...it's the only one with chocolate!"

The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Television has changed the American child from an irresistible force to an immovable object.

Reflections on government...

1) Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself ............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) 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

5) Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. ..........James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

6) 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 Univ.

7) Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys
.............P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

8) Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. .........Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

9) 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)

10) I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. .............
Will Rogers

11) If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
.......P.J. O'Rourke

12) 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)

13) 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.)

14) No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. .........
Mark Twain (1866)

15) Talk is cheap .. except when Congress does it. .........Unknown

16) The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. ...........Ronald Reagan

17) 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

18) The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. ........Mark Twain

19) The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. .........Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

20) There is no distinctly native American criminal class.. save Congress. .......Mark Twain

21) What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. ..........Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

22) A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. ..........Thomas Jefferson

Executive ability is a talent for deciding something quickly and getting someone else to do it.