Thread: Quip Of The Day

Admiration, n.:
Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
-- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Shopping with your wife is like hunting with the Game Warden---

intaxication:
Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

" Time travelers never have to stand in line. "

LE MODESITT ...author

The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of an expanding bureaucracy.

The best general is the one that gets what is needed, where it's needed, when it's needed.

Read it somewhere a while back.

Richard

Originally Posted by Geezer

"Politically correct" is an oxymoron; nothing political is correct.

I remember reading an old quote where the author referenced things that were "politically convenient." I think that is much more accurate.

No standing government, wanting to stay in power, can afford to keep its agreements

"Remember, the first pioneers were the ones with arrows in their backs!"
John Stanford . . . author of "Saturn Run"

" Politicians and diapers need to be changed often . . . and for the same reasons!"

Old but succinct quote, dunno who, sounds like Will Rogers