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

Originally Posted by syslight

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

Jefferson and Lincoln....two of the most amazing minds in U.S. history

Greg

"Justice without Mercy is Tyranny; Mercy without Justice is Anarchy"
- The Golden Dawn

Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
-Aleister Crowley

An honest man's the noblest work of God.
-Alexander Pope

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it."
-Lincoln

"Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."
-Lincoln

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
-Franklin

And my favorite, used as a toast when the occasion calls for it:

"May the best of your past be the worst of your future"

Greg

Senator Kennedy,more people have died in the back seat of your car,than all nuclear power plant accidents combined

No I am not saying that you are fat. I'm just saying that you're a whole lot of woman.

I just heard one that I liked. Lord Kitchener, one of the greats of calypso music, said when someone was getting on his nerves: "Your absense is now required."

I first heard this from a high school history teacher but its pretty certain he did not come up with it.

"Facts are like bikinis. What they reveal is interesting but what they hide is vital."

One of my favorites, Robert Heinline:
Overspecialization is an insideous thing, it cuts knowledge at a thousand points and leaves it bleeding.

or another classic, Lincoln in regard to personal freedoms:
Your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose.

Einsteins definition of insanity:
Doing the same thing over and over again, yet expecting different results.

Cheers,
Ed

The only way around is through ----- Robert Frost


We aim above the mark to hit the mark ----- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Justin

"I have always relied on the fact that most people are nicer than me."
Hal Dresner

"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture."
Frank Zappa

Two from Thoreau, who has influenced me more than most:

- Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. With respect to luxuries and comforts, the wisest have ever live a more simple and meager life than the poor.

- Beware of all enterpreises that requrie new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes.