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"Your society values people by how much you have. Ours by how much we give away."
Cirque du So-What
(25,984 posts)Flo Mingo
(492 posts)May those who love us, love us
And those that don't, may God turn their hearts
And if He can't turn their hearts
May he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping.
chia
(2,244 posts)wryter2000
(46,082 posts)"In this life, you must be oh-so-clever or oh-so-pleasant. Well, I tried clever. I recommend pleasant."
May not be an exact quote.
empedocles
(15,751 posts)[ on my desk wall I modify that to my need, ' . . . if I can figure out what to do with it.'
empedocles
(15,751 posts)[widely quoted from King James bible, through Abe Lincoln, to Ann Landers, . . . ]
DemoTex
(25,403 posts)Acts 9:5 (KJV)
empedocles
(15,751 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,938 posts)starring Ben Gazzara - "Run For Your Life"............. (really rather apt for these days!)
"With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost."
........William Lloyd Garrison
LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)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
Arkansas Granny
(31,531 posts)"Live and learn. Some people only live."
I don't know if that quote is original to her, but good advice, nonetheless.
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)"They call war an art, but it's not. It largely consists in outwitting people, robbing widows and orphans, and inflicting suffering on the helpless for one's own ends, and that's not art: That's business."
yonder
(9,676 posts)Duncan Grant
(8,291 posts)RGinNJ
(1,021 posts)Fuck you, you fucking fuck.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)I am a Democrat.
- Will Rogers
-Laelth
Different Drummer
(7,646 posts)The image of it below is my Twitter background photo.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
DBoon
(22,397 posts)"The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent."
"In the long run we are all dead."
ItsjustMe
(11,250 posts)I used to think the worst thing In life was to end up all alone, It's not. The worst thing In life Is ending up with people who make you feel all alone. - Robin Williams - From the film Worlds Greatest Dad
-Laelth
donkeypoofed
(2,187 posts)malchickiwick
(1,474 posts)More seriously: "The one thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history" -- W.F. Hegel
SKKY
(11,822 posts)"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars".
IcyPeas
(21,908 posts)Message of Love song.
SKKY
(11,822 posts)....Lady Windermere's Fan.
Glorfindel
(9,736 posts)Robert Service, The Cremation of Sam McGee
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)... they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
- Mark Twain
UTUSN
(70,744 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)who didn't want to do their share of the dishes or take out the garbage.
UTUSN
(70,744 posts)Different Drummer
(7,646 posts)It expresses my views entirely. I was alive in 1969, so I can't understand why this is my first time seeing this.
UTUSN
(70,744 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)then when I die I want to go where they went.
- Will Rogers
quaint
(2,582 posts)And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand,
They danced by the light of the moon,
The moon,
The moon,
They danced by the light of the moon.
marked50
(1,371 posts)The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.― Edmund Burke
quaint
(2,582 posts)marked50
(1,371 posts)added text not to the OP's quote. My mistake.
marked50
(1,371 posts)demigoddess
(6,645 posts)military brats motto, I usually want to say "Never Assume, it is a sign of stupidity"
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)Living well is the best revenge
Nobody has ever gone broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people
Lord, what fools these mortals be
IcyPeas
(21,908 posts)Saying "let me help you out of the pond before you drown", the kindly monkey put the goldfish safely up the tree.
July
(4,751 posts)The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior justification for selfishness.
littlemissmartypants
(22,808 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)"Using the checklist is statistically safer than thinking"
My other phrase is "Quality is not an accident but the result of intelligent effort"
I don't recall who came up with that one.
Both of those were my go tos as an aircraft mechanic and inspector for almost 35 years.