Favourite Quotes

[Frank Reynolds]

"Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society." - Unknown (falsely attributed to Aristotle around the web)

 

[Frank Reynolds]

"You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." - Eleanor Roosevelt

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[grokit]

"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people:
religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin."

~ Charles Shultz​

 

[Melting Pot]

 

[grokit]

"No one in this world, so far as I know-and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help me-has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people."

~ H L Menken​

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[KidFated.]

"Moms hear everything."
"Moms always right."

The #1 person in my life.

 

[Crohnie]

"He wanks as high as any in Wome!"


Pilate: Monty Python and the Holy Grail

 

[momofthegoons]

My daughter to me 5 minutes ago...

"Adulting sucks. But the wine is good."

 

[TeeJay1952]

How old is daughter? (cute at 7, bad at 17, wise at 30)

 

[Joel W.]

 

[grokit]

“The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for peace in our time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are at war now — with somebody — and we will stay at war with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives. It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerrilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.”

~ Hunter S. Thompson, September 12, 2001
​

 

[killick]

"I didn't mean to kill nobody ... I just meant to shoot the sonofabitch in the head. Him dying was between him and the Lord."
R. L. Burnside

 

[DDave]

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[KidFated.]

A wise man once said

Personalities are fine for fun and games, but when it comes to useful advice that should stand on its own?

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[Nooky72]

 

[Melting Pot]

 

[Crohnie]

"We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep."





Prospero: The Tempest
William Shakespeare

 

[grokit]

Gore Vidal famously referred to the USA as the "United States of Amnesia".

The late Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai put it a little more delicately, quipping, “One of the delightful things about Americans is that they have absolutely no historical memory.”

 

[Crohnie]

"I've never wished a man dead, but I've read some obituaries with great pleasure."





Mark Twain

 

[momofthegoons]