Thread: Lets hear your favorite quotes. Funny, serious, even political cheapshots welcome !

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) Poor Richard's Almanac [1733]_, "June"

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. --- Abraham Lincoln

When the Devil quotes Scriptures, it's not, really, to deceive, but simply that the masses are so ignorant of theology that somebody has to teach them the elementary texts before he can seduce them.
--Paul Goodman

I can believe anything, but the justice of this world does not give me a very reassuring idea of the justice in the next. I am very much afraid that God will go on blundering: he will receive the wicked in Paradise and hurl the good into Hell.
-- Jules Renard, 1906

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
--Thomas Jefferson

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
--Thomas Jefferson, letter to William Charles Jarvis

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
--Thomas Jefferson

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the natural rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
--Thomas Jefferson

Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
JFK

"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize"

"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability."
- Ron White

"Don't lie, cheat or steal. The government hates competition."

"Government philosophy- If it ain't broke, fix it 'til it is!"

"Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film..."

"It's hard to multi-task with a one-track mind."

"Not only is it the bomb, it's the entire friggin' arsenal!"

"Don't look back. You never know what might be gaining on you...."

"You've very successfully put 2 and 2 together and gotten a beaver. You're so far off the mark that you've left numbers altogether and entered addition with mammals."

Joe

Illegitimi non carborundum

latin for:

don't let the bastards grind you down

i got this from my little brother, dont know where it originally came from
"i would rather die on my feet, then live like a slave on my knees"

"may you spend half and hour in heaven, before the devil knows you're dead"

this one from a song but usally use it as a toast at the bar with friends
"when the sky is grey
look out to sea,
when the waves are high
and the light is dying,
then raise a glass, and think of me,
when im home again boys ill be buying"

Originally Posted by mhailey

Illegitimi non carborundum

latin for:

don't let the bastards grind you down

Cromeus Domeus - Latin for 'Australian Wild Man'

-whatever

-Lou