Believe it or not (best if you don’t), I occasionally do
some research for the smorgasbord of stuff dished out in this blog. In the process, like finding a shiny coin on
the street, I sometimes bump into a few enjoyable lines. These are little thought burps, not anything
amounting to an entire blog article, but worth a chuckle.
So-- in today’s blog, for your enjoyment, I am cleaning these tiny morsels off my
table, in no particular order.
From the most recent book I read, “This is Where They Leave
You,” Jonathan Tropper’s extremely peculiar novel about his dysfunctional family’s
response to his father’s demise:
“…I wondered what I could do to distinguish myself as
anything other than a waste of space.”
“It’s amazing how harmless the world can sometimes seem.”
“That’s the thing about life; everything feels so permanent,
but you can disappear in an instant.”
From Mae West:
“His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.”
From Robert Reich:
“If you took the greed out of Wall Street, all you’d have
left is pavement.”
From H.L. Mencken:
“The men the American people admire most extravagantly are
all the greatest liars…”
From David Haury, Professor of Education at Ohio State U.:
“Research in neuroscience has shown that when there’s a
conflict between facts and feeling in the brain, feeling wins.”
From Voltaire:
“The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is
their power to harm us.”
From the National Rifle Association:
“We are all safer if everyone has a gun.”
From John Bright:
“He is a self-made man and worships his creator.”
From folk singer, Gillian Welch:
“I wanna do right but not right now.”
From Forrest Tucker:
“He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.”
And best of all, from Anonymous:
“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
Feel free to send me any good ones you may have recently run
across. I will put them in an upcoming blog for all to enjoy.
This is a certified organic free-range blog.
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2 comments:
well, i liked my friend Alan's obituary: "Life is like Summer vacation. You don't think about it til its almost over."
More Nuggets:
1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
-- John Adams
2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
-- Mark Twain
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
-- Mark Twain
4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-- Winston Churchill
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
-- George Bernard Shaw
6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to payoff with your money.
-- G. Gordon Liddy
7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
-- Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
-- Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-- Ronald Reagan(1986)
12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
-- Will Rogers
13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
-- P.J. O'Rourke
14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
-- Voltaire(1764)
15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
-- Pericles (430B.C.)
16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
-- Mark Twain(1866)
17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
--Anonymous
18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
-- Ronald Reagan
19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-- Winston Churchill
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
-- Mark Twain
21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
-- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)
22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress.
-- Mark Twain
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-- Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
-- Thomas Jefferson
25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
--Aesop
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