Thread: Quip Of The Day

“Reaching the finish line isn't possible without beginning the first step of the journey. Start today, don't wait.”
― M. Gail Grant, Magdalena Gottschalk:

" If you think that health care is expensive, wait till you see what it costs when it is free! "

P.J. O'ROurke

If the Earth really was flat, cats would have pushed everything off of it by now.

A man who has been nicely" dressed by a woman be she his Mother, wife, girlfriend or other, is regarded by other men as a wimp and someone not to be trusted. "

Leo Frankowski in "A Boy and His Tank"

“The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I have strong feelings about gun control. If there is a gun around, I want to be controlling it.

Clint Eastwood as 'Tommy Nowak' in the movie Pink Cadillac

Question asked at Amazon about a set of Universal Bicycle Pedals:

Will these scrape my calves like the metal ones do?

Answer:

Not likely. Try putting your feet on them, makes it easier to pedal.

"We can argue all we like, but if capital punishment is being inflicted on some man, we are inclined to say: ‘It serves him right.’ That is not the spirit, I believe, in which legislation is enacted. If in this present age we were to go back to the old time of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth,’ there would be very few honorable gentlemen in this house who would not, metaphorically speaking, be blind and toothless."

Mr Graham, Canadian house of parliament.
1914...

“Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana,

" A plucked goose doesn't lay golden eggs. "
Anon