Quotes That You Like

[PhillyGirl]

" Times are changing. Now people are taking comedians seriously, and politicians as a joke.''

If I attributed this to John Stewart no one would question it, but actually it is from Will Rogers many years ago. If you want to get a few chuckles and get enlightened as well, googol Will Rogers quotes or Mark Twain quotes.

A couple of my favorites from Mark Twain;

There is no native American criminal class, except for congress.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lives, and statistics.
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Mr. Samuel Clemens is one of my all time favorite writers / humans.


"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."

"I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s."

"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."

"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."

 

[alabama mike]

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power crrupts absolutely. Lord Acton

 

[bama alum]

Did you...Did you ever get the feeling the world is a tuxedo, and you're a pair of brown shoes? George Goebel. Vastly underrated comedian!

 

[psychojoe]

Then there is the salty old newspaper guy, H. L. Mencken:

"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Or the philosopher, Schiller:

"Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain."

 

[AFF]

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

Joan Rivers

 

[PhillyGirl]

"The second you're preceived as weak, you already are."
- Galina 'Red' Reznikov, Orange is the New Black

 

[alabama mike]

You make a living by what you get but you make a life by what you give.

 

[AFF]

Pretty much any line in this clip:

 

[rick4bama]

Here’s all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
The late great George Carlin

 

[PhillyGirl]

http://jamesaquilone.com/101-greatest-george-carlin-quotes/

^^ all of these! Love Carlin.

 

[AFF]

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin

 

[alabama mike]

Everybody who comes here brings happiness, some by coming in and others by going out.
Robert M. Knight-A Season On The Brink

 

[PhillyGirl]

"Adversity is the first path to truth."
- Lord Byron

 

[rick4bama]

“Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.”
― Phyllis Diller

 

[rick4bama]

"First of all, I would have liked to have gone back out there and finished the game and I know our players would have liked to do the same thing," Alabama coach Nick Saban said.

 

[alabama mike]

Its great to be optimistic.
Its probably not so good to be pessimistic.
Its always best to be realistic.

Unknown

 

[PhillyGirl]

"Let us be kinder to one another.”
- Aldous Huxley

 

[AFF]

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. Mencken

 

[rick4bama]

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H.L. Mencken

So true!:shock:

 

[PhillyGirl]

"I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life."
- Leo Tolstoy

In honor of his birthday! :dance: