Great Quotes

[Skiptown]

Anyone want to add other great quotes? My favorite is the last one.

>> 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
>>
>> A government which robs Peter to pay Paul
>> can always depend on the support of Paul.
>> **George Bernard Shaw
>>
>> 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 University
>>
>> * *(This is my favorite)* *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
>>
>> 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)
>>
>> No man's life, liberty, or property is safe
>> while the legislature is in session.
>> **Mark Twain (1866)
>>
>> Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
>> **Unknown
>>
>> The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist
>> is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
>> **Mark Twain
>>
>> What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
>> **Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)
>>
>> A government big enough to give you everything you want,
>> is strong enough to take everything you have.
>> Thomas Jefferson*

[Brent & Kim]

"and put it on the Underhills bill" quote, Irwin Fletcher.

[cyndyj1]

Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.
There's too much fraternizing with the enemy.
~ Henry Kissinger

[Skiptown]

One that I live by is
"People will forget what you said and they will forget what you did, but they will never forget how you made them feel"
Maya Angelou

[JudyBluEyes]

"Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason."

[sctx]

"When some wild-eyed, eight-foot-tall maniac grabs your neck, taps the back of your favorite head up against the bar room wall, looks you crooked in the eye and asks you if ya paid your dues, you just stare that big sucker right back in the eye, and you remember what ol' Jack Burton always says at a time like that: "Have ya paid your dues, Jack?" "Yessir, the check is in the mail."

Jack Burton

[JudyBluEyes]

"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. - Edward Abbey"

[sctx]

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

[Lil G]

Originally Posted by Brent & Kim

"and put it on the Underhills bill" quote, Irwin Fletcher.

Buenos dias.

F***in taco.

Irwin Fletcher

[Brent & Kim]

"I dont believe in a government who protects us from ourselves"
Reagan

[roni]

Dorothy Parker

“Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common”

“It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends.”

“Ducking for apples - change one letter and it's the story of my life.”

“The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.”

“If all the girls at Brandeis were laid end-to-end, I wouldn't be surprised”

[Brent & Kim]

Oh, the silent majesty of a winter's morn... the clean, cool chill of the holiday air... an asshole in his bathrobe, emptying a chemical toilet into my sewer...

Clark Griswold

[roni]

Originally Posted by sctx

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill is my favorite utilitarian philosopher. Bentham is good,but I like Mill better.

But I really like the existentialists.

[sctx]

Originally Posted by roni

John Stuart Mill is my favorite utilitarian philosopher. Bentham is good,but I like Mill better.
.

you just like his comments re: conservatives

[roni]

Originally Posted by sctx

you just like his comments re: conservatives

I like his "On Liberty"

It is one of the founding texts of classic liberalism and libertarianism.

In his writings, Mill argues for a number of controversial principles. He defends radical empiricism in logic and mathematics, suggesting that basic principles of logic and mathematics are generalizations from experience rather than known a priori. The principle of utility—that “actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness”—was the centerpiece of his ethical philosophy. On Liberty puts forward the “harm principle” that “the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.” In The Subjection of Women, he compares the legal status of women to the status of slaves and argues for equality in marriage and under the law.