Favorite Quote

[theBruiser500]

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh"

[jakethebake]

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain
a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty
nor safety. ---Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of
Pennsylvania, 1759.

or

"The politician attempts to remedy the evil by
increasing the very thing that caused the evil in
the first place: legal plunder." -- Frederic Bastiat (1801 - 1850), French statesman and author.

[jakethebake]

My people must drink beer. His majesty was brought up on beer and so were his ancestors and his officers and soldiers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be depended on to endure
hardships or to beat enemies. --Frederick the Great, King of Prussia September 13, 1777

[Blarg]

There are so many out there, it's almost impossible to come up with a favorite. But here's a funny one. I wish I remembered who it came from -- some theater director or writer, to an actress, I think at a rehearsal.

"You, my dear, are a birdbrain. And I mean that as an insult to birds!"

[fnord_too]

When the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems tend to look like nails - Hungarian Proverb (I also think I've seen it attributed to Maslow)

There are those who see the world the way it really is and those who call them cynics - can't remember

No one has ever gone brok underestimating the taste of the American public - H.L. Menken

Normality is nothing to aspire to. - Me

I have so many quotes running through my heas, but I'll stop here.

[fnord_too]

Oh, how could I leave off

No one extolls the virtue of hard work more than the man who inheritted his father's store - Confucious

[AngryCola]

Chance favors the prepared mind.

[Blarg]

That reminds me of one that goes something like, "The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor from begging, stealing bread, and sleeping under bridges."

[BusterStacks]

"The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take it's course, and your tools will strike at the right moment." - Bruce Lee

[dr. klopek]

"I can't live the button-down life like you. I want it all! The terrifying lows, the dizzying highs, the creamy middles! Sure, I might offend a few of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odors-Oh, I'll never be the darling of the so-called "City Fathers" who cluck their tongues, stroke their beards, and talk about "What's to be done with this Homer Simpson?"