Favorite Quotes?

[Sockratease]

What This Country Needs are More Unemployed Politicians. - Edward Langley



There is no distinctly native American criminal class... save Congress. - Mark Twain



A Government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. - Thomas Jefferson.



The Only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. - Mark Twain.



Guess what I've been putting off?

[salsashark]

Taxes suck.

- me, just now as I finished writing the checks to uncle sam and the commonweal of taxachusetts.

[Mistress Taylor]

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of convenience and comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

[salsashark]

"These are the times that try men's souls."

- Thomas Paine

[Flatuface]

The RSS feeds located at the bottom of forumhome(or HERE) and in the FemD Toolbar had four good quotes out of four today so...

Oscar Wilde
"When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers."

Frank Lloyd Wright
"Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."

Chuck Reid
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is."

William Safire
"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."

[JeeBee]

Well I have made an own quote, just like the one under my messages..
But I made it in Dutch, I am going to translate it as good as I can..:

Dutch one:

Ik kwam op deze Wereld met maar één doel, het verlaten ervan,
onbewust doelgericht, zonder te weten waar het vandaan kwam...

English one:

I came on this World with only one purpose, to leave it,
unconsciously targeted ,without knowing where it came from



hmmm I like the Dutch one, the English one doesn't sound as it should be

[Mistress Taylor]

Good people will do good things. Bad people will do bad things. But for good people to do bad things you must add religion.

unknown

[salsashark]

This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

– Plato

[topfod44]

what man is a man who dose not make the world a better place
Bad things happen to all, people good people just get back on their feet faster.

Keep your eyes on the prize and never stop working till your strong enough to take it from the world, and once you get it never stop working and never let it go because someone stronger might want it. Those are the realities of life.

A boy sees the world with hopeful eyes and a loving heart thinking that nothing bad can happen and that people good. A man sees not the world but the only those people and possessions he holds dear and watches them with unyielding eyes knowing if he blinks they’ll be stolen from him.

"Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. ~ John Paul II" (one of my most favorites)

It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat
Srry i have a lot of quotes that i look to for inspiration nd other things lol but thanks for listening and i hope i contributed

[salsashark]

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

~Abba Eban

[rotorhead]

One of my fav's:
"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizzare and inexplicable.

There is another theory that states that this has already happened."
Douglas Adams - 5th book of the increasingly inaccurately labeled trilogy "Hitchhikers Guide..."

[salsashark]

Ah, the great Douglas Adams....taken from us much too soon:

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy