Favorite Quotes

[Someguywhodoesntlikeyou]

My insomnia is acting up and I’m reading a Vonnegut book.


“Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism, but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.”

-Adam Smith

“I hear there are three kinds of suns in Kansas. Sunshine. Sunflowers and sons of bitches”
-The Outlaw Josie Wales.


“To the Army and the navy and the battles they’ve won. To the red white and blue and the colors that never run”
-Big Trouble in Little China.
(My friends from college and I still use that one when we get together.)

‘We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.”
– Ronald Reagan

“In the long run we’re all dead”
- John Maynard Keynes



And this from the book I’m reading tonight

“But I have to say in defense of humankind: in no matter what was in history, including the Garden of Eden, everybody just got here. and, except for the Garden of Eden, there were already all these games going on that could make you act crazy, even if you weren’t crazy to begin with. Some of the crazymaking games going on today are love and hate, liberalism and conservatism, automobiles and credit cards, golf, and girls basketball”

 

[AustinTXCat]

^ As a POW/EPW in WW2, Vonnegut survived Dresden bombing. His writing reflects as much. Tremendous respect for Kurt.

 

[Glenn's take]

The thing is Bob, it's not that I'm lazy. It's that I just don't care.

 

[jcrow10]

“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” - Greek Proverb

“I can’t believe that Nancy Grace has a vagina.” - me circa 2012

 

[gamecockcat]

It's better to remain silent and to be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln

For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest of these: it might have been.
-John Greenlief Whittier

 

[MegaBlue05]

“Rickey don’t like it when Rickey can’t find Rickey’s limo” - Rickey Henderson

“I have never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great satisfaction” - Charles Darrow, often misattributed to Mark Twain

 

[JonathanW]

"To be The Man, you got to beat The Man" Woooo - Ric Flair

 

[WildcatFan1982]

‘Cookies!’ - Cookie Monster

 

[docholiday51]

"Why Johnny Ringo, you look like somebody just walked over your grave"

 

[berniecarbo]

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses- in the gym, and out there on the road long before I dance under those lights. Muhammad Ali

 

[warrior-cat]

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. The only way they can inherit the freedom we have known is if we fight for it, protect it, defend it, and then hand it to them with the well fought lessons of how they in their lifetime must do the same. And if you and I don’t do this, then you and I may well spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it once was like in America when men were free. – Ronald Reagon 1961

 

[WildcatFan1982]

‘wtf?!’ - George Washington

 

[the nail at the foul line]

Where is my hairpiece?

Bill Self