Do you have a favorite quote? The one above is mine.
If you need a crib sheet for famous quotes, try this. Have a nice weekend!
“If you are going through hell, keep going.” Winston Churchill
– December 5, 2008Posted in: churchill, famous quotes, hell
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master.
George Washington
Do something every day that scares you.
Eleanor Roosevelt
“A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours. And recovery is when Jimmy Carter loses his.”
Ronald Reagan, 1980 (during the 1980 presidential campaign)
Can’t pick just one…
The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.
Ronald Reagan
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Gandhi
Em,
Too true!
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
Ronald Reagan
Ronnie Reagan seems to have taken over the place!
How about this one:
“I’m not making light of prayers here, but of so-called school prayer, which bears as much resemblance to real spiritual experience as that freeze-dried astronaut food bears to a nice standing rib roast. From what I remember of praying in school, it was almost an insult to God, a rote exercise in moving your mouth while daydreaming or checking out the cutest boy in the seventh grade that was a far, far cry from soul-searching.”
- Anna Quindlen
“I don’t give ‘em hell, I just tell the truth and they think it’s hell.”
- Harry Truman
“Brothers and sisters, there is immense destructive work to be done.”
- Tristan Tzara
“Let the wild man inside molest your inner child.”
- Herb Caen
Why are hemorrhoids called “hemorrhoids” instead of “assteroids”?
George Carlin
Not to hog this post let me throw in a few.
Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential. — Bud Wilkinson
“ya gotta believe.” New York Mets rally cry from the 1973 season
Remeber seeing this on TV? “The Americans “are going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender”. During the 2003 Iraq War. Former Iraqi Information Minister Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
And back to my hero Ronald Reagan a quote you often see in my posts. “Trust, but verify.”
“The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by lesser men.” — Plato.
Re: The Big Three: “You are all going to Hell in a hand basket!” – unattributed
Al Michaels on the election of Barack Obama:
“Do you believe in miracles?”
Thanks Red, how’s this one?
Trust everybody and cut the cards.
From the old ‘Maverick’ TV series.
Thats a great on to Art!
junior -
“There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane; either you have diarrhea, or you’re anxious to meet people who do”
Henry Kissinger
Another fav -
“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”
Ayn Rand quote
Not exactly a quote, but great song lyrics!!!
“This is my December
This is my snow-covered heart
This is my December
This is me alone
And I’d give it all away
Just to have somewhere to go to
Give it all away
To have some one
To go home to
This is my December
These are my snow-covered dreams
This is me pretending
This is all I need”
Two of my favorites:
1.”I HAVE FOUND A CERTAIN TYPE CALLS HIMSELF A LIBERAL…NOW I ALWAYS THOUGHT I WAS A LIBERAL. I CAME UP TERRIBLY SURPRISED ONE TIME WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT I WAS A RIGHT-WING, CONSERVATIVE EXTREMIST, WHEN I LISTENED TO EVERYBODY’S POINT OF VIEW THAT I EVER MET, AND THEN DECIDED HOW I SHOULD FEEL. BUT THIS SO-CALLED NEW LIBERAL GROUP, JESUS, THEY NEVER LISTEN TO YOUR POINT OF VIEW…”
2.”SORRY TO NOTE IN YOUR CHALLENGE THAT THERE IS A WEAKNESS IN YOUR BREEDING. BUT THERE IS A RAY OF HOPE IN THE FACT THAT YOU ARE CONCIOUS OF IT.”
-John Wayne
“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem–neat, plausible, and wrong.”
H.L. Mencken
This thread is great. I love the quotes. I enjoy knowing more about posters here by what they choose to quote.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by!
Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid. They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild — and what happened? The men wilted.
– Erica Jong
1942 American Author