Favourite Quotes

[macbill]

 

[macbill]

 

[The Stray Fox]

 

[Buzzbomb Almighty]

" Personally, I have always felt that the best doctor in the world is the Veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter...he's just got to know."
Will Rogers

 

[Tranquility]

My concern with democracy is highly specific. It begins in observing the remarkable fact that, while democracy means a government accountable to the electorate, our rulers now make us accountable to them. Most Western governments hate me smoking, or eating the wrong kind of food, or hunting foxes, or drinking too much, and these are merely the surface disapprovals, the ones that provoke legislation or public campaigns. We also borrow too much money for our personal pleasures, and many of us are very bad parents. Ministers of state have been known to instruct us in elementary matters, such as the importance of reading stories to our children. Again, many of us have unsound views about people of other races, cultures, or religions, and the distribution of our friends does not always correspond, as governments think that it ought, to the cultural diversity of our society. We must face up to the grim fact that the rulers we elect are losing patience with us.

Kenneth Minogue
Morals & the servile mind

 

[Buzzbomb Almighty]

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Søren Kierkegaard​

 

[grampa_herb]

 

[His_Highness]

My favorite quote has become......"Back in my day....."

 

[macbill]

 

[Alexis]

roll d12

 

[Ramahs]

Hell yeah

 

[grampa_herb]

"Madness is rare in individuals--but in groups, political parties, nations, and eras it is the rule."

--Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil

 

[Buzzbomb Almighty]

Prior to Pearl Harbor, a magazine reporter was doing a piece on the popularity of America entering the war. He interviewed an old woman high in the mountains of Appalachia, and she said "I think that there Mr Hitler should just get married and settle down."

 

[macbill]

 

[Alexis]

“Does a black surface absorb light because it is black? Or is it black because it absorbs light?”

(Someone I know)

 

[Ramahs]

“Does a black surface absorb light because it is black? Or is it black because it absorbs light?”

(Someone I know)

Definitely the latter.

 

[Alexis]

“If you can’t control it, don’t let it annoy you.

If you can control it, control it.”

(Easier said of course. I do like the second part though.)

 

[florduh]

"Death has a tendency to encourage a depressing view of war."

"I don't do quagmires."

"I can't tell you if the use of force in Iraq today will last five days, five weeks or five months, but it won't last any longer than that."

"Simply because you do not have evidence that something exists does not mean that you have evidence that it doesn't exist."

 

[macbill]

Marital Problems in the 60's
"Ward, you were a little hard on the Beaver last night"
- June Cleaver

 

[BakedDiogenes]

“I'm not saying I've been everywhere and I've done everything. But I do know this is a pretty amazing planet we live on here. And a man would have to be some kind of fool to think we're all alone in this universe.”

- Jack Burton

 

[macbill]

 

[Ramahs]

 

[macbill]

 

[BakedDiogenes]

DON’T GROW WEARY IN WELL-DOING



- Tobe Nwigwe

 

[howie105]

Tree Trimmer: Now that's a real shame when folks be throwin' away a perfectly good white boy like that.