Do you have a favorite quote or two?

[red dog 1]

"House guests, like fish, begin to stink after three days."

Ben Franklin

[underpants]

1. "Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana"

Groucho Marx

[Clash City Rocker]

8. Yes! An all time favorite of mine

[Walleye]

10. Time flies? Alas no. Time stays. We go.

[MissMillie]

111. How about this one: "Time marches on and eventually you realize...

...it's marching across your face."



From Steel Magnolias

[underpants]

2. "Don't think. It can only hurt the ball club"

Crash Davis.

[empedocles]

3. 'This time, like all other times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it'

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Just_Vote_Dem]

4. When I think about the Orange Menace...

This quote by Sherlock Holmes to a corrupt politician-after the politician calls Sherlock "mad" in "Murder By Decree" comes to mind:

"You create allegiance above your sworn allegiance to protect humanity. You shall not care for them, or acknowledge their pain. There lies the madness."

[Faux pas]

5. They should invent

a bomb that only kills assholes.

George Carlin

[empedocles]

6. 'Its not over until the fat lady sings'

[Kurt V.]

7. "I Am Not a Member of Any Organized Party -- I Am a Democrat"

which i think makes us far superior to republicans in lock step.

[trof]

12. Will Rogers

[Adsos Letter]

9. "It's always darkest before it goes completely black."

"Every day above ground is a good day."

[Clash City Rocker]

11. The great Dorothy Parker, predicting Trump

[underpants]

81. Great!

[MyOwnPeace]

102. ALWAYS.........

love some Dorthy Parker!!!!

[trof]

13. It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you DO know that ain't so.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens...
AKA Mark Twain

Oh how I wish the Republican party would take this to heart.

[MLAA]

14. Somerset Maugham in The Razor (I believe)

‘American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection English women only hope to find in their butlers’

[kairos12]

165. Love that book. Read it many times. Travel to find the essence of life only to find

you left it at home. Truly a great message for these times.

[MLAA]

166. Indeed!

[kairos12]

167. Stay ready, so you don't have to get ready.

Taught to me by a recovering inmate.

[kairos12]

168. Sorry MLAA. My quote about Staying Ready was mean't for another

thread. My apologies.

[MLAA]

169. No apology necessary, it's damn good advice!

[BarbaRosa]

15. To make a long story short. .

too late

[Doc_Technical]

16. " I Was Catholic Until I Reached The Age Of Reason."

George Carlin

[alwaysinasnit]

34. Having been raised Catholic, I use that line frequently. LOL

[Clash City Rocker]

108. He opened one of his routines with

“I used to be Irish Catholic, now I’m an American.”

[Bucky]

17. Alexander Hamilton explaining why the internet is such a clusterfuck

“In all very numerous assemblies, of whatever character composed, passion never fails to wrest the sceptre from reason. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.”

— Alexander Hamilton

[Skittles]

18. "The only thing domestic about me is I was born in this country"

Phyllis Diller

[MerryBlooms]

156. !

Fang!

[abqtommy]

19. "Survival is a matter of practice", Terry Pratchett.

[nolabear]

20. From Dr. Sydney Freedman on M*A*S*H*

He was the psychiatrist who occasionally came in to treat the mental wounds. He often departed with:
“Ladies and Gentlemen, take my advice. Pull down your pants and slide on the ice.”

[First Speaker]

21. I'm gonna get medieval on your ass...

...surely, it's unnecessary to name the source. But I feel this more every time I see a GOPer on TV...

[sarge43]

22. "I love humanity; it's people I can't stand."

Attributed to either Albert Einstein or Linus Van Pelt.

[Aristus]

46. Linus by proxy.

It was Charles Schultz who said it.

[sarge43]

48. Thank you n/t

[Aristus]

49. Any time, sarge.

[sarge43]

50. Can always count on you, Aristus

Returning salute, Tank Man.

[Aristus]

51. ...

[miyazaki]

23. Do what is right because it is right; and leave it alone.

- Chiune Sugihara

[Totally Tunsie]

24. "Winter must be very cold for those with no warm memories."

from the movie An Affair to Remember with Deborah Kerr and Cary Grant.

[kairos12]

25. Life is a waste of time, time is a waste of life,

so get wasted all the time, and have the time of our life.

Attribution.

who cares

[LakeArenal]

56. Good one.

Also
Pot gets you through times of no money better Than money gets you through times of no pot.

[customerserviceguy]

78. I remember that

from a Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comic!

[apcalc]

26. Beauty fades. Dumb is forever.

[sarge43]

59. The other one

Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes right to the bone.

[fierywoman]

27. Believe nothing, entertain possibilities.

[broiles]

28. It ain't over til it's over.

Yogi Berra!

[LastDemocratInSC]

105. "Our differences are very similar"

One of Yogi Berra's sons during an interview when asked about his father.

[TexasBushwhacker]

29. A couple from Ghandi

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."

"I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."

[alwaysinasnit]

35. +1000

[PJMcK]

30. You won't like this but it's most effective, especially when dealing with Republicans

FUCK YOU!!!

[calguy]

31. He who asks the questions cannot avoid the answers - Cameroon Proverb

[The Figment]

32. Weed will get you thru times of no money better than money will get you thru times of no weed

Fat Freddy.

[2naSalit]

33. A couple of my own...

You can lead a mind to knowledge but you can't make it think.

And

Performances may come and go but rehearsals are forever.

[russ1943]

178. Horticulture

2naSalit (36,848 posts)
33. A couple of my own...You can lead a mind to knowledge but you can't make it think.

As this is similar to one of my favorites, I’d like to add………………..
On being challenged to use "horticulture" in a sentence;
Dorothy Parker is reported to have quipped “You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.”

[2naSalit]

179. I've actually heard that one some time ago.

I know I blurted mine out one day and I can't recall just when but it was the right thing to say at that moment. But I've remembered what I said.

[Cartoonist]

36. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Carl Sagan

Prove God exists.

[DFW]

37. A few

Les cimetières sont pleins de gens irremplaçables, qui ont tous été remplacés. -- Georges Clemenceau

(The cemeteries are full of irreplaceable people--all of whom have been replaced)
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"¡Éste es el templo de la inteligencia! ¡Y yo soy su supremo sacerdote!"

"Venceréis, pero no convenceréis. Venceréis porque tenéis sobrada fuerza bruta; pero no convenceréis, porque convencer significa persuadir. Y para persuadir necesitáis algo que os falta: razón y derecho en la lucha."--Miguel de Unamuno

A fascist general was ranting at the start of the brutal Spanish Civil War in 1936. He was yelling "¡Viva la muerte (long live death)!" and "¡Muera la inteligencia(death to intelligence)!"

Rector of the University of Salamanca, Unamuno, at 72, in poor health, responded: "This is the temple of intelligence! And I am its high priest!" and then followed, addressing the Fascist general: "You will conquer, but you will not convince. You will conquer because you have overwhelming brute force; but you will not convince, because to convince means to persuade. And to persuade, you need something you lack: reason and righteousness in the fight."

It is deceivingly difficult to translate "razón y derecho" exactly here. By themselves, they are not difficult, but Unamuno's context makes both words open to various ways of translating them. By the way, the Fascists DID win (with the help of Hitler and Mussolini). When Francisco Franco was named "Caudillo (sort of Führer)" of Spain, he called it the "culminating point in the history of the world." It wasn't. Thirty-six years after his "victory," Franco was gone, and so was Fascist rule in Spain.
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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 blind-folded fear.--Thomas Jefferson
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And my own sig line from André Gide:
"Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent"

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it.

[lastlib]

64. You, sir, are a genuine DU treasure!

I would love to spend a week drinking beer with you and tapping into your mind. That would be an experience to write home about!

[DFW]

65. I fear you might not get your expectations lived up to

My wife has been tapping into my mind for 45 years, and she doesn't write home about it

Also--I don't drink beer, so that part might get lonely (I know, I know--and he lives in GERMANY!!)

Finally, there are plenty of people here on DU that would disagree violently with your assessment, so while I appreciate it mightily, be prepared for some nasty dissent!

(and then we can both tell them to lighten up, Francis).

[lastlib]

67. (actually, I don't drink beer either!)

Those dissenters can KMA--I can tell a brilliant mind when I see one!

[DFW]

69. Less like "brilliant" and more like "cluttered"

But if our paths ever have the occasion to cross, let fate take its course!

Almost ten years ago, I had been trying to arrange a lunch meeting with two completely awesome friends of mine who had never met. After trying for nearly two years, it finally worked--all three of us would be in the same city at the same time! And so, at one table for four at a restaurant in Washington DC in July, 2010, two "who-the-hell-are-they?" guys (me and my brother) sat down for an extended lunch with Howard Dean and Helen Thomas.

Now, THERE were two brilliant minds for you!

[customerserviceguy]

79. No man is a prophet in his own country.

My lady finds me less funny than everyone else does. Still, she laughs enough to still put up with me.

[DFW]

80. With me, even that is complicated

My wife and I are from different continents, and we have always conversed in her language. It took her decades to get used to American/Anglo humor. Germans just see the world differently. She has spent time in my neck of the woods, but we live in hers.

[customerserviceguy]

84. Well, our differences are not that pronounced

But, I'm a Northwest kind of guy, and she's a Jersey girl, so we occasionally have a disconnect.

I've had a couple of German women as friends, you have your work cut out for you in the humor department, for sure!

[DFW]

93. Shortest book ever published:

"Ten Thousand Years of German Humor"

My re-education efforts dwarfed what the North Vietnamese did to the South after 1975. But they were rewarded. Eventually!

[DFW]

38. And, of course, this classic:

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[JudyM]

112. This is excellent.

[DFW]

116. One of my all time favorites, too. n/t

[Rincewind]

39. I have two.

The first, from Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame " I reject your reality, and substitute my own". The second, I can't remember who it is from, but it's been my personal motto for years, " You are only young once, but you can be immature forever".

[Guilded Lilly]

40. "No matter where you go, there you are" n/t

[Ferrets are Cool]

130. You beat me to it...

From one of my favorite movies and favorite characters.

[Guilded Lilly]

131. ...

[Alpeduez21]

41. You can't think yourself

Into right acting but you can act yourself into right thinking. -AA it can probably be credited to someone but that’s where I heard it

[Marthe48]

42. Heroism consists of hanging on

one minute longer. (Norwegian proverb)

God wants you to win the lottery, but he lets you pick the numbers. (I made this one up awhile back)

[flotsam]

43. Never try to teach a pig to whistle...

...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

[panader0]

44. Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers:

Weed will get you through times of no money better than
money will get you through times of no weed.

[Bucky]

45. Takeaway: in the 18th century they could tolerate the stink of 2-day old fish

Imagine living in a world without refrigeration and tupperware. Imagine catching a cod on Wednesday and it's still hanging in your pantry on Friday afternoon. This wouldn't bother Benjamin Franklin. Stinky old man.

[Aristus]

47. "When I was fourteen years old, I thought my father was the stupidest, most ignorant man

that had ever lived. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was amazed at how much he'd learned in seven years!"

- Mark Twain.

[samplegirl]

52. Be the same person

privately, publicly and personally!

[Captain Zero]

75. Be the person

Your dog thinks you are.

[samplegirl]

94. In my case my cat

Yes!!! Good one!

[Karadeniz]

128. And...you will get the dog you deserve.

[CaptainTruth]

53. "Many are cold, but few are frozen."

A variation on "Many are called, but few are chosen."

To me it means that many are somewhat supportive of a cause (cold), but few are committed through & through with their entire being (frozen).

[Glorfindel]

54. "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." Satchel Paige N/T

[LakeArenal]

55. Mine is a bit long. You might know it tho.

I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment
I could be you

Yes, I wish that for just one time
You could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is
To see you

https://m.

[Brother Buzz]

60. If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.

[DFW]

61. A line from a song:

"Don't you know that when the truth is told
You can get what you want or you can just get old."

From "Vienna" by Billy Joel

[AverageJoe]

63. To all my friends!

Spoken by Henry Chinaski in Barfly, by Charles Bukowski

[lastlib]

66. First from Arthur C. Clarke:

"Any technology sufficiently advanced is indistinguishable from magic."

Carl Sagan: "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."

Phaedrus II (moi): "He who seeks the wisdom of the multitude of stars will find his truth."

[hamsterjill]

68. Old, but profound.

"It is better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt."

[sammythecat]

70. It's 4:30 am and I don't know how

much vodka, so please excuse the volume. I've got a whole folder of smart shit from smart people.

"The loneliest people are the kindest,
the saddest people smile the brightest,
and the most damaged people are the wisest.
All because they don't wish to see others suffer
like they do." -- I don't know who said this, or when, but it sounded true.

The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. -- Arthur Schopenhauer

"Reverence for Life says that the only thing we are really sure of is that we live and want to go on living. This is something that we share with everything else that lives, from elephants to blades of grass. So we are brothers and sisters to all living things, and owe to all of them the same care and respect that we wish for ourselves."
— James Brabazon, Albert Schweitzer's biographer (concerning Schweitzer's philosophy of Reverence for Life)

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
-- Christopher Isherwood -- Think about this one. Good luck (life is all about luck), good health, and a rather dull mind. The perfect recipe for self-satisfied contentment. BTW, the health and lack of imagination(empathy), both products of luck. It's all about luck.


“True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” -- FDR (hat tip to Andrew Yang and his ubi).

Visitors from another world would, by definition, be far more advanced than us. And they would, of course, find much to learn about us, but... almost nothing at all to learn from us. -- I can not imagine any alien life, super impressively able to keep their shit together long enough to develop interstellar space travel, would consider us as anything more than an interesting curiosity for their scientists to study

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
-- Jiddu Krishnamurti -- I find great comfort in this one

But after a while you learn to cope with things like seeing your dead grandmother crawling up your leg with a knife in her teeth. Most acid fanciers can handle this sort of thing.
-- Hunter S. Thompson, from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. One of a few books that made me laugh out loud.

[stuntcat]

95. All right-on.

“If I were someone, I would like to be a fool. No one would know me, and I think that would be cool.”
Gary Ogan

[smirkymonkey]

98. All great quotes!

You even quoted my sig line!

[red dog 1]

71. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter."

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

[red dog 1]

72. "Patriotism is a virtue of the vicious."

Oscar Wilde

[ailsagirl]

73. I don't know who officially coined it but...

"Small minds are easily amused."

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde

And many more I want to mention...

[red dog 1]

74. "I was down there and I watched our police and firemen down at 7/11,

at the World Trade Center right after it came down."

Shitler quote.

[customerserviceguy]

76. That was from Franklin?

My lady seems to think that her father invented it.

[nocoincidences]

77. It is better to die on your feet,

than to live on your knees.

Emiliano Zapata

[klook]

82. "I love work.

It fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.”
- Jerome K. Jerome

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

83. "Little by little

the look of the country changes because of the men we admire."

[klook]

85. Thelonious Monk:

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it.

A genius is the one most like himself.

They tried to get me to hate white people, but someone would always come along and spoil it.

More: http://www.listsofnote.com/2012/02/thelonious-monks-advice.html?m=1

[Va Lefty]

86. Felix Unger "Everyone thinks I'm a hypochondriac. It makes me sick."

[RobertDevereaux]

87. From Thomas de Quincey

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.''

[jg10003]

88. the race is not always to the swiftest, but that's the way to bet.

The lion shall lie down with the sheep, but the sheep won't get much sleep.

[mucifer]

89. "I did not become a vegetarian for my health, I did it for the health of the chickens."

Yiddish author Isaac Bashevis Singer.

[JudyM]

113. That's so sweet.

[sammythecat]

125. I like that one

I once knew a preacher. He mentioned he was a vegetarian and I asked him why, was it for health, or...? His answer was health. Had to get his triglycerides down or something. It might be unfair, but I was disappointed with his answer. I was expecting something a little more "spiritual".

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

90. Time exists so everything doesn't happen at once. Space exists so everything doesn't happen to you.

[Alwaysna]

91. It appears we have low people in high places.

[Alwaysna]

92. If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.

[LaelthsDaughter]

96. 1:lemons 2:Just my smol bean

“When life gives you lemons, make grape juice, sit back, and watch the world ask how you did it!”

-???

Also!

“This body is flawfless! Everyone wants a piece of me and I got the creepy fan letters to prove it!”

-Angel Dust(created by Vivienne Modreno and Michael Kovach)

[Phentex]

97. I've slain giants bigger than you...

[red dog 1]

99. "We must take sides...Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim."

Elie Weisel

[smirkymonkey]

100. This is from one of my favorite authors/philosophers and is very timely and appropriate...

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Another favorite:

“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” - George Orwell

And lastly:

"Some people are like Slinkies. They don't really have a purpose. But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down the stairs." - Jack Handey

[lapfog_1]

101. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

[brewens]

103. Never sit around discussing things rationally when the situation calls for panic-George

Steinbrenner

[MyOwnPeace]

104. On my "From the Desk of........." tablet:

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." ........Winston Churchill

[live love laugh]

106. Power concedes nothing without a demand... Frederick Douglas nt

[DEbluedude]

107. "Dying ain't much of a living boy"

Josie Wales’s response to a bounty hunter who had just told Wales “ a mans gotta make a living”.

[red dog 1]

109. "One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist

except in our imaginations."

Steve Allen

[red dog 1]

110. "You're only given a little spark of madness...You mustn't lose it."

Robin Williams

[whistler162]

114. I like

'

but

"

are okay

[Wolf Frankula]

115. Two from Bob Heinlein

"Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get."

and

"There is no privacy in any society crowded enough to require ID cards." That is so true.

For three to live by, see my sig line.

Wolf

[Hotler]

117. The older I get. The younger my teachers. Robert Frost I think. nt

[bluecollar2]

118. "Using the checklist...

Is statistically safer than thinking"

British Airways Check Airman

[NeoGreen]

119. Text written by Patrick O'Brian in Master and Commander...

Patriotism
“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either: ‘my country, right or wrong’, which is infamous; or ‘my country is always right’, which is imbecile.”

Book 1, Page 112, as quoted by Stephen Maturin when speaking to Lt. James Dillon

Or his frequent reference to a poem by Dryden,

“All, all of a piece throughout:
Thy chase had a beast in view;
Thy wars brought nothing about;
Thy lovers were all untrue.
'Tis well an old age is out,
And time to begin anew.”
The Secular Masque (John Dryden, 1700)

[hunter]

120. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick

[red dog 1]

121. "Justice is merely incidental to law and order."

J. Edgar Hoover

(This is not my favorite quote; in fact, I abhor it..but it does reflect the fact that Hoover was an evil, vindictive asshole, who, despite being head of the FBI, the 2nd highest official in the U.S. Justice Department, this is what "justice" meant to him)

[red dog 1]

122. "Communism is like one big phone company"

Lenny Bruce

[red dog 1]

123. "Together, all things are possible."

Cesar Chavez

[red dog 1]

124. "If a pig loses it's voice, is it disgruntled?"

George Carlin

[mercuryblues]

126. it's only late til midnight

then it starts getting early again. I was never out late.

[ariadne0614]

127. Simone de Beauvoir

“Representation of the world, like the world itself, is the work of men. They describe it from their own point of view, which they confuse with the absolute truth.”

[Walleye]

129. And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart,

Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it Art ?" Kipling

[maxrandb]

132. Never try to teach a goat to sing. It's a waste of your time and it pisses off the goat

I think of that alot when I'm tempted to debate a Retrumplican.

[Wolf Frankula]

133. "You can never buy beer,

you can only rent it for a while." Archie Bunker.

Archie was right.

Wolf

[red dog 1]

134. "Never say in grief that you are sorry he's gone.

Rather, say in thankfulness, you are grateful he was here."

Senator Ted Kennedy

[red dog 1]

135. "Ego is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."

Booker T. Washington



Speaking of Trump...(just kidding)

[red dog 1]

136. "Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."

JFK

[TreadSoftly]

137. "Speak well of others and you'll never have to whisper" nt

[red dog 1]

139. "I have lost friends.. Some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street."

Virginia Woolf

[DFW]

140. One I always liked:

"He who does not believe in miracles is not a realist."

(supposedly)--David Ben Gurion

[red dog 1]

141. "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions."

Mark Twain

[whistler162]

142. Procrastination is the art of never fin....

God grant me patience right now.

[red dog 1]

143. "What is now proved was once only imagined."

William Blake

[red dog 1]

144. "Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present."

Albert Camus

[red dog 1]

145. "We are not human beings having a spiritual expericnce...

We are spiritual beings having a human experience."


Teilhard de Chardin

[red dog 1]

147. McCarthy's right-hand-man was Roy Cohn, who was one of Trump's mentors

(I think Fred Drumph knew him & introduced him to Spanky)

[nuxvomica]

149. "Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency."

as said by Maya Angelou but I think it was originally from Marcus Aurelius. I have a variation that deals with politics:

"You cannot truly exercise any of your rights when you have voluntarily surrendered the right to think for yourself."

[nuxvomica]

150. "Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not"

attributed to Oscar Wilde. Whenever I feel the victim of unfairness, I think of this quote and ponder how frequently it's been unfair in my favor.

[MLAA]

151. From a book my Somerset Maugham, if memory serves The Razor's Edge

‘American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection English women only hope to find in their butlers’

[FM123]

152. this one makes me think of you-know-who

If you want money more than anything, you’ll be bought and sold your whole life.
-Rumi-

[El Supremo]

153. "The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog."

Mark Twain

[comradebillyboy]

154. Napoleon Bonaparte said

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”

also

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

[MerryBlooms]

155. "Dang girl, you don't look right. Where you been?"

MerryBlooms

(Makes my gal pals laugh every time when they're down in the dumps, and usually followed up with a shot of bourbon or so, and a long story. )

[MerryBlooms]

157. That looked way better on paper.

[SharonClark]

158. "I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." - Susan Sontag

[SharonClark]

159. The world is not going to come to you. The sooner you realize this, the more time you'll have

to pack. -- Leigh Standley

[SharonClark]

160. Let us be grateful to people who make us happy,

they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. -- Marcel Proust

[red dog 1]

162. "I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism.

I don't think it is possible under capitalism."


Judi Bari

[red dog 1]

163. "We can't solve a crisis without treating it as a crisis and we must unite behind experts & science"

Greta Thunberg

[The Magistrate]

164. A Couple I Like, Sir --- First From Orwell, Second From Oppenheimer

"Saints should be presumed guilty till proved innocent."

"This is the best world possible. Everything in it is a necessary evil."

[kairos12]

170. Stay ready, so you don't have to get ready.

Told to me a recovering ex-inmate.

[red dog 1]

171. "We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community."

[red dog 1]

172. "Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

Teddy Roosevelt

[red dog 1]

173. "Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil."

Jerry Garcia

[red dog 1]

174. "A woman is like a tea bag - You can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt

[red dog 1]

175. "But I didn't inhale!"

Bill Clinton

[janterry]

176. Is prayer, then, the proper attitude for minds which long to be freely blown

Li-Young Lee
from The City in Which I Love You

[Different Drummer]

177. A couple from Will Rogers

[red dog 1]

180. My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants."

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Barack Obama

[nilesobek]

181. "Always look at a two faced man twice."

Chief Joseph.

[red dog 1]

182. "Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."

Jimmy Carter

[backtoblue]

183. We are, each of us angels with only one wing...

We can only fly by holding onto each other

[red dog 1]

184. "He couldn't ad-lib a fart after a baked-bean dinner!"

Johnny Carson

[red dog 1]

185. "Issues are never simple...One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify

the issues."

Barack Obama

[red dog 1]

186. "It's Missouri, you stone cold idiot!"

Claire McCaskill

[red dog 1]

187. "Families is where our nation finds hope, where wings take dream"

(A real quote from George W. Bush)

[red dog 1]

188. "To sleep, perchance to dream."

William Shakespeare

[red dog 1]

189. "This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector"

Plato (The Republic)

[Xolodno]

190. I'll ad a few

The mountains have called, and I must go....John Muir (I think)

Not all who wander are lost...JRR Tolkien

By the measure you judge others, you will be judged....Jesus

Wise men lay up knowledge, but the babbling of a fool brings ruin near..Proverbs 10:14...(looks at Trump)

And this one is very dark...

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas...Joseph Stalin

[red dog 1]

191. "If you're going through hell, keep going."

Winston Churchill

[red dog 1]

192. "He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.

[bluecollar2]

193. Using the checklist is statistically safer than thinking...

British Airways Check Airman...

[red dog 1]

194. "Learn from your past mistakes; but don't dwell on them."

Red Dog 1

[red dog 1]

195. "You can do anything you want, you are bound by nothing."

Robin Williams

[red dog 1]

196. "It's about decency. It may seem a ridiculous idea, but the only way to fight the plague

is with decency."

Albert Camus (The Plague)

[red dog 1]

197. "It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is a privilege of wisdom to listen."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

[red dog 1]

198. "Due to today's earthquake, the God is Dead rally has been cancelled."

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Johnny Carson delivered this line in his monologue.
It was written by "Tonight Show" head-writer Pat McCormick.

[red dog 1]

199. "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."

Helen Keller

[Mendocino]

200. Now I am become death,

a destroyer of worlds.

Robert Oppenheimer from the Bhagavad Gita

[red dog 1]

201. "The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of it's truth."

W. Somerset Maugham

[red dog 1]

202. "If you think that one person can't change the world, think about one person eating an

under-cooked bat."

Anonymous

[red dog 1]

203. "There's nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America."

William Jefferson Clinton

[red dog 1]

204. "The moon does not simply disappear when we are not looking at it."

Albert Einstein

[red dog 1]

205. "Donald Trump was the dumbest goddamn student I ever had."

William T. Kelley, former Wharton School of Business professor.

[red dog 1]

206. "I don't care what people do, as long as they don't do it in the street and scare the horses"

Anonymous

[red dog 1]

207. "The role of Vice President is the most insignificant office ever devised by the mind of man."

John Adams

[red dog 1]

208. "What I'm looking for is not out there, it is in me."

Helen Keller

[red dog 1]

209. "Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

[red dog 1]

210. "A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how

to walk forward."

FDR

[Mr.Bill]

211. When you are at work,

never lift anything heavier than a pencil. - my Dad

[red dog 1]

212. "Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time, but Republicans haven't

given up trying."

LBJ

[red dog 1]

213. "Republicans admire the U.S. Government so much that they would like to buy it."

Harry S. Truman


(Actually, I think they already bought it)

[red dog 1]

214. "Conservatives believe that life begins at conception and ends at birth."

Rep. Barney Frank

[red dog 1]

215. "Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen."

Mort Sahl

[red dog 1]

216. "Change takes courage."

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

[red dog 1]

217. "Throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and, being, like,

really smart."


Donald J. Trump

[red dog 1]

218. "Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's Party!'"

Robin Williams

[red dog 1]

219. "A truth that's told with bad intent..Beats all the lies you can invent"

William Blake

[red dog 1]

220. "I don't tan, I stroke!"

Woody Allen

[red dog 1]

221. "Never waste a minute thinking about people you don't like."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

[red dog 1]

222. "Count your age by friends, not years...Count your life by smiles, not tears."

John Lennon

[red dog 1]

223. "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up some place else."

Yogi Berra

[red dog 1]

224. "Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king."

Bob Dylan

[red dog 1]

225. "The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, but domestic imbeciles."

John Fugelsang

[red dog 1]

226. "Never wait for tomorrow; what if tomorrow never comes?"

Elvis Presley

[red dog 1]

227. "Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable."

Joe Biden

[red dog 1]

228. "Some times I feel like I'm actually on the wrong planet."

George Harrison

[jrandom421]

229. Here are my two

"Ferengi Rule of Aquisition Number 285: No good deed ever goes unpunished."

"Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it." George Santayana

[jrandom421]

230. From the VP

Don't tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I'll tell you what you value.

Joe Biden

[red dog 1]

231. "Patriotism means to stand by the country..It does not mean to stand by the President."

Theodore Roosevelt

[red dog 1]

232. "The scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in America and Donald Trump reflects that"

Rep. John R. Lewis (D-GA)

[red dog 1]

233. "I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy."

Steve Martin

[Mad_Dem_X]

234. Two - both from songs:

"I know I was born and I know that I'll die...the in-between is mine." (Pearl Jam, I Am Mine)

"I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints." (Billy Joel, Only The Good Die Young)

[red dog 1]

235. "I'm an ally of all peaceful protesters."

Donald J. Trump

[red dog 1]

236. Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."

Hippocrates

[red dog 1]

237. "When you hit a wall - of your own imagined limitations - just kick it in!"

Sam Shepard

[red dog 1]

238. "The real looting in this country takes place in the transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich."

George Carlin

[red dog 1]

239. "The nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power."

Joe Biden

[red dog 1]

240. "Comedians illuminate and examine what's going on, explore our anxieties and fears, and

give us some relief."

John Lithgow

[Wolf Frankula]

241. I'm not sure who these people are, but I agree with them.

"Whenever a 'good faith exception' is made to a law, the way is left open to much bad faith." I.G. Aritzmendi.


"Law enforcement ought to be drilled to a most scrupulous respect for the rights of the citizenry. Where the police are permitted to abuse the citizens to enforce the laws, it will not be long before they abuse the citizens for their own private profit. An unbridled and uncontrolled constabulary is always a corrupt constabulary. " Eldarion Lathria

Wolf

[red dog 1]

242. "Be the change you want to see in the world."

Mahatma Gandhi

[red dog 1]

243. "Some people are going to leave a mark on this world, while others will leave a stain."

Eleanor Roosevelt

[red dog 1]

244. "I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I'm not."

Kurt Cobain

[red dog 1]

245. "Do one thing every day that scares you."......Eleanor Roosevelt

[JustGene]

246. "Everything is exactly the way it's supposed to be at any given moment"

unknown

[red dog 1]

247. "You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

Abraham Lincoln

[red dog 1]

248. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

Helen Keller

[red dog 1]

249. "When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

FDR

[red dog 1]

250. "Love is the most powerful and still most unknown energy in the world."

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

[Grammy23]

251. When someone shows you who he is,

Believe him the first time.

Maya Angelou

[ProfessorGAC]

252. One I Use A Lot

So much so, my wife uses it regularly, too.
In the 2nd Indiana Jones movie, the Nazi thug drinks from the jeweled chalice.
He melts, painfully.
Ancient templar looks at Jones and says "He chose poorly!"
I love that line!

[red dog 1]

253. "You can fool some of the people some of the time - and that's enough to make a decent living"

W.C. Fields

[red dog 1]

254. "Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."

Theodore Roosevelt

[red dog 1]

255. "In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act."

George Orwell

[red dog 1]

256. "Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not not himself

find peace."

Albert Schweitzer

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

257. "When you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk."

Tuco: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

[red dog 1]

258. "Fear can be the most virulent and damaging virus known to humankind."

Jerry Jampolsky M.D.

[red dog 1]

259. "You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon!"

Jim Gaffigan

[red dog 1]

260. "Any movie that has the line "Hold the perimeter,' you know it's good."

Carl Reiner

[red dog 1]

261. "The danger is that the indulgence and attachments of the people will keep a man in the chair

after he becomes a dotard."

Thomas Jefferson

[red dog 1]

262. "The Republican party still helps the rich and sticks a knife in the back of the poor."

Harry S. Truman

[ListenWhenYouHear]

263. Anything can be a dildo if you are brave enough

Abe Lincoln

[red dog 1]

264. "If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around"

Will Rogers

[red dog 1]

265. "No amount of evidence will persuade an idiot." - Mark Twain

(President Bone Spurs is proof of that)

[Wolf Frankula]

266. There is nothing so permanent as a temporary emergency.

I think that was either Bob Heinlein or Otto von Bismarck.

Wolf

[LuckyCharms]

267. "It's too late to close the barn door after the horse

has eaten all the children".

[red dog 1]

268. "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."

Will Rogers

[red dog 1]

269. "Our Constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. senators"

Will Rogers

[red dog 1]

270. "Prosperity is just around the corner."

Herbert Hoover

[red dog 1]

271. "You pray for the hungry..Then you feed them..That's how prayer works."

Pope Francis

[red dog 1]

272. "I wasn't sniveling....It was a bad mic"

Donald Duck Trump

[red dog 1]

273. "Roger Stone was treated very unfairly, unbelievably unfairly."

Donald Duck Trump

[red dog 1]

274. "I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win..And that's the way it is."

Donald Duck Trump

[red dog 1]

275. "Out of chaos comes order.".....Friedrich Nietzsche

[OxQQme]

276. ..........about as useful as a screen door on a submarine

Love is like a fart. If you try to force it, it may turn to shit.

You can’t have the light without the dark, and you can’t have loud without quiet.

[red dog 1]

277. "I have a great relationship with the blacks..I've always had a great relationship with the blacks"

Donald "Duck" Trump

[nuxvomica]

278. "Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him." EM Forster

“Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.” Oscar Wilde

[red dog 1]

279. "I think the Russians participated in having this man (Trump) get elected, and they helped destroy

the candidacy of Hillary Clinton."

Rep. John Lewis

[Wolf Frankula]

280. From Gahan Wilson

"Those of you who remember how great it was to be a little kid, gang, don't remember how it was to be a little kid."

from NUTS.

Wolf

[red dog 1]

281. "Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight

can build up in a hundred years."

Edmund Burke

[red dog 1]

282. "Without music, life would be a mistake."

Friedrich Nietzsche

[red dog 1]

283. "You must be bold, brave, and courageous and find a way..to get in the way."

John Lewis

[many a good man]

284. "Behind every great fortune

Lies a great crime."

-Balzac

[red dog 1]

285. "Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see."

Carl Jung

[red dog 1]

286. "Some of us gave a little blood for the right to participate in the democratic process."

John Lewis

[bluecollar2]

287. Using the checklist is statistically safer than thinking...

British Airways test pilot

[red dog 1]

288. "When you make mistakes, when you're wrong, you should admit you're wrong and ask people

to forgive you."

Rep. John Robert Lewis

[red dog 1]

289. "The quieter you become, the more you can hear." Ram Dass

[red dog 1]

290. "All warfare is based on deception."

Sun Tzu (The Art of War)

[red dog 1]

291. "As the list of abuses by federal agencies grows, Americans are rapidly losing trust in government"

Mark Meadows (W.H. Chief of Staff) back when Obama was POTUS

[red dog 1]

292. "The beauty of me is that I'm very rich."

Donald "Duck" Trump

[MasonDreams]

293. If you do not go within you go without.

This above all, to thine own self be true...

Hate cannot drive out hate, Only Love can do that.

[red dog 1]

294. "I will be the greatest jobs President that God ever created!"

Donald "Duck" Trump

[red dog 1]

295. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

Helen Keller

[red dog 1]

296. "Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.".......Albert Schweitzer

[red dog 1]

297. "Doing nothing while the middle class are hurting, that's not leadership...Loose regulations and

lax enforcement, that's not leadership; that's abandoning our middle class."

Kamala Harris

[red dog 1]

298. "Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something."

Sean Hannity

[red dog 1]

299. "People have got to know whether or not their President is a crook...Well, I am not a crook!"

Richard M. Nixon

[red dog 1]

300. "The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently controlled vehicles

from off the Earth."


Stanton T. Friedman

[Wolf Frankula]

301. From the Late Archie Bunker

"You can never buy beer, you can only rent it for a while."

Wolf

[ailsagirl]

302. "A certain darkness is needed to see the stars"

Osho

[ailsagirl]

303. One of my favourite Shakespeare quotes

"Lord, what fools these mortals be."

[red dog 1]

304. "Due to today's earthquake, the God is Dead rally has been cancelled."

Pat McCormick line for "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson"

[red dog 1]

305. "We've come a long way since that night when Freddy dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes on

Donald's head because he was such a brat."

Marianne Trump Barry (Shitler's sister)

[red dog 1]

306. "Do one thing every day that scares you."......Eleanor Roosevelt

[red dog 1]

307. "No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."

Abraham Lincoln

[red dog 1]

308. "Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity."

Frank Zappa

[red dog 1]

309. "Politics don't corrupt people, people corrupt politics."

Judge Amy Jackson

[red dog 1]

310. "I do hope that some of my dissents will someday become law."

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg