Quotes ya just gotta share with the rest of us....

[Whit]

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.

Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to.

[elSicomoro]

"Never eat where you shit."--unknown

[Whit]

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
- Groucho Marx

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
- H. L. Mencken

I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?
- George Carlin

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
- Sir Winston Churchill

[Whit]

      Okay, one more before I crash. This was part of an actual conversation between a friend of mine and I.

Whit: You've got no morals, man.
Joe: I've got morals, I won't fuck just anything.
Whit: No, Joe, those are standards, morals are different.
Joe: Ya know, I think you're right.

[xoxoxoBruce]

There's a difference between standard morals and moral standards ?

[Lady Sidhe]

"Once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes
to think little of robbing; and from robbing, he comes next
to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility
and procrastination." --Thomas De Quincey


"Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half
fools and the half wise who are dangerous."

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



John Wilkes, and English politician noted for his firm
opposition to George III, was a man of courageous liberal
principles, but who led a personal life of great dissipation.

At one time, an opponent of Wilkes, shaking with rage at some
quip the latter had made, said to him, "Sir, I predict you
will die either on the gallows or of some loathsome disease."

To which Wilkes replied, "Which it will be depends entirely
on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress."



DAMN....good one.

Sidhe

[Lady Sidhe]

“Certainty of death, small chance of success... well, what're we waiting for? ”

-- Gimli to the Captains of the West


“"I am a servant of the Secret Fire, Wielder of the Flame of Anor; you cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, Flame of Udun! Go back to the Shadow. You cannot pass!”

--Gandalf, to the Balrog


“Remember what Bilbo used to say: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to...”

-- Frodo to Sam




Sidhe

[Lady Sidhe]

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.


--Bilbo Baggins, at his eleventy-first birthday party in the Shire

[Whit]

"I liked it for the educational value, but they wouldn't let me drink."
- Ozzy Osbourne, responding to questions about his stay at the Betty Ford clinic.

[Lady Sidhe]

Words of wisdom from the world of sports:

"I dunno. I never smoked any Astroturf."
-Tug McGraw, asked whether he preferred grass or Astroturf

"I told [GM] Roland Hemond to go out and get me a big name
pitcher. He said, 'Dave Wehrmeister's got 11 letters. Is
that a big enough name for you ?'"
-Eddie Eichorn, White Sox owner

"Raise the urinals."
-Darrel Chaney on how management could keep the Braves on
their toes

"He treats us like men. He lets us wear earrings."
-Torrin Polk, University of Houston receiver, on his coach,
John Jenkins, 1991

"I want to rush for 1,000 or 1,500 yards, whichever comes
first."
-New Orleans Saint RB George Rogers

"Left hand, right hand, it doesn't matter. I'm amphibious."
-Charles Shackleford of the NCSU basketball team

"Are you any relation to your brother Marv?"
-Basketball player Leon Wood to announcer Steve Albert

"I can't really remember the names of the clubs that we
went to."
-Shaquille O'Neal on whether he had visited the Parthenon
during his visit to Greece

"He (Julio Cesar Chavez) speaks English, Spanish, and he's
bilingual, too."
-Don King, boxing promoter.


Sidhe

[Lady Sidhe]

"Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end, we'd sing and dance forever and a day,
We'd live the life we'd choose, we'd fight and never lose, for we were young, and sure to have our way."

"Those Were the Days"
(it's a song, but I don't remember the name of the woman who sang it)

Sidhe

[dar512]

Mary Hopkin

All Music Guide is your friend.

[Lady Sidhe]

Thanks. I've loved that song since I was a little girl, but they never play it anymore. It seems I identify with it more and more as the years go by....

Sidhe

[Troubleshooter]

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

- Aleister Crowley

[Troubleshooter]

It is not merely that I dislike, distrust and disbelieve anyone who seeks political office. I would extend privacy rights even to politicians were it not for two countervailing circumstances.

First, they themselves violate privacy rights wholesale. They regulate virtually everything that peaceful people can do behind closed doors, from taking drugs to having sex. It is elitist hypocrisy for them to demand the privacy rights that they routinely deny to ordinary people. If a politician wishes me to respect his personal life, then he needs to respect mine.

- Wendy McElroy