Quotes.........

[DeadlyDaring]

What doesn't matter to you might be very important to someone else.

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The first palindromic date of many this year, being 2/1/2.

[HARDCORE]

"The study of history is a powerful antidote to contemporary arrogance. It is humbling to discover how many of our glib assumptions, which seem to us novel and plausible, have been tested before, not once but many times and in innumerable guises; and discovered to be, at great human cost, wholly false."

-- Paul Johnson
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"Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor."

-- Robert Frost
(1874-1963) American poet, received four Pulitzer Prizes
Source: The Black Cottage, 1914

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"For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike."

-- Sir Francis Bacon
(1561-1626) Philosopher, British Lord Chancellor
Source: The Advancement of Learning, 1605

[DeadlyDaring]

The fundemental ingredient missing from modern life must be "fun".

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Now we are all back to work we can look forward to next Christmas.

[DeadlyDaring]

They say a man is as old as the woman he feels. Whereas a woman is as old as she feels like admitting.

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Today is the day you abandon all of the resolutions you made yesterday.

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A resolution is a boastful aspiration you have no intention of meeting.

[HARDCORE]

"As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions,
I am free to print anything."

-- Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais (1732-1799)

[HARDCORE]

"Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought."

-- Ludwig von Mises (1881-1973) Economist and social philosopher

[HARDCORE]

"Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why." [Political Primer For All Americans, 1944]

Sidney Hillman [1887-1946] - Labor Leader
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"To the intellectual, America's unforgivable sin is that it has revolutions without revolutionaries, and achieves the momentous in a matter-of-fact way." [Syndicated newspaper column, 9 February 1968]

Eric Hoffer (1902 (or 1898) – 1983) Popular Philosopher

[HARDCORE]

"In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in high school to teaching Remedial English in college."
-- Joseph Sobran (1946- ) Columnist

[HARDCORE]

"That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression."


Quote by: Alabama, Declaration of Rights Article I Section 35

[revwardoc]

1) When I die, I want to die like my grandfather--who died peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming like all the passengers in his car."
--Author Unknown



2) Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children."
--Author Unknown



3) "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
--Drew Carey



4) "The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong house."
--Jeff Foxworthy



5) "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base."
--Dave Barry



6) "Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, the day before they leave you, they should have to find you a temp."
--Bob Ettinger



7) "My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, "'Mom, they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"
--Paula Poundstone



8) "A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men.
I just want to say to the authors of that study: "Duh."
--Conan O'Brien



9) "Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner."
--Lynda Montgomery



10) "I think that's how Chicago got started. Bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'"
--Richard Jeni



11) "If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
--Johnny Carson



12) "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
--Paul Rodriguez



13) "My parents didn't want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that's the law."
--Jerry Seinfeld



14) "Remember in elementary school, you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?"
--Warren Hutcherson



15) "Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same."
--Oscar Wilde



16) "Suppose you were an idiot , and suppose you were a member of Congress.. but I repeat myself.
--Mark Twain



17) "Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Afghanistan ."
--A. Whitney Brown



18) "You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says,
'My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'"
--Dave Barry



19) Do you know why they call it "PMS"? Because "Mad Cow Disease" was taken.
--Unknown, presumed deceased



20) "Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
- W. C. Fields