Random thoughts, quotes and sayings?

[JP33]

Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana


...JP

 

[artsyrobin]

Pope John Paul II

Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.

 

[desertgirl]

"As the madmen play on words and make us all dance to their song.
To the tune of starving millions, to make a better kind of gun?"

 

[Q9]

"Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it. "-Robert E. Lee

"Any society that would trade a little liberty for a little security will deserve neither and lose both."-Ben Franklin

"The trouble with trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you often succeed."-C.S. Lewis

 

[rainplace]

God must love idiots, he made so many.

Anyone here ever read the Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce? I love quoting from it:

ECONOMY, n.
Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

POLITICS, n.
A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

BRIDE, n.
A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

 

[dacjohns]

"TANSTAAFL"


OK, what's up with the forum programming? My quote is supposed to be all caps and the program won't let me do it. I will try again using quotation marks.

 

[Q9]

Quote:
People seriously need to pay more attention to that little phrase.

 

[Iowa Roo Mom]

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

 

[Boyd]

It is better to drop turds from above than to let them float up from below - Richard Marcinko

and if you get past the infantile wording, it's really quite deep.

 

[newchickenfamily]

wonders where a forest ranger goes to get away from it all?