Favourite Quotes

[grokit]

"Monsanto and Whole Foods' new fake labeling bill would not only preempt Vermont's bill this week, but the provisions of the bill are OPTIONAL - the bill's language is so poorly written that it would not actually include 85% of the current GMOs on the market, including Roundup Ready GMOs owned by Monsanto that are sprayed with the weedkiller glyphosate, which the World Health Organization declared a "probable carcinogen" linked to cancer in lab animals and humans last year. "

 

[macbill]

In Honor of Friday, the 13th

 

[hinglemccringleberry]

 

[Nooky72]

 

[macbill]

 

[unsorted]

Bama Dillert: You take my old man. Now he used to gamble when he was plowin' up his fields, hopin' for a crop. Sometimes he'd get one, sometimes he wouldn't. So figure if a man's gonna gamble, he might as well do it without plowin.'

 

[Nooky72]

 

[Vapeur Rogue]

"Everything that has existed, lingers in the Eternity." Agatha Christie

 

[Marlon Rando]

 

[withoutbliss]

 

[macbill]

 

[macbill]

 

[Nooky72]

 

[macbill]

 

[jeffp]

 

[macbill]

I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's.

- Autobiographical dictation, 12 September 1907. Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3 (University of California Press, 2015)

 

[His_Highness]

"No brag, just fact" - The Guns of Will Sonnett

Pretty sure I just showed my age with the above but what the hell....I wasn't hiding it anyway

No idea why that quote popped into my head so I could have posted it in "random thoughts" along with....... I sure wish some politicians would follow that damn quote!

 

[macbill]

 

[Ramahs]

 

[ChooChooCharlie]

Preaching to the choir, and within staggering distance to my apt

 

[Ramahs]

 

[Summer]

↑ Good one Ramahs!

And here's one I found in my 20's that always stuck with me in an arcane & esoteric way:

(*Arcane & esoteric is a phrase I remember from that same time period. Funny how this all just came back to me from reading Ramah's quote. Haven't thought about it in years. Nice to think about it again. )

"Nothing is, but what is not."

 

[Marlon Rando]

 

[macbill]

"The problem with our Texas Baptists is that we do not hold them under water long enough." - Molly Ivins

 

[Ramahs]