Quotes May 07


It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.

U.S. Supreme Court, in American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382,442

Alimony is like buying hay for a dead horse.

Groucho Marx

Attitude is more important than the past, than education, than money, than circumstances, than what people do or say. It is more important than appearance, giftedness, or skill.

W.C. Fields

Aspire to inspire before you expire.

anonymous

Frustration is trying to find your glasses without your glasses.

anonymous

Blessed are those who can give without remembering... And take without forgetting

anonymous - submitted by Jackie B.

"Political Correctness" is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

anonymous

The irony of life is that, by the time You're old enough to know your way around, you're not going anywhere.

anonymous

God made man before woman so as to give him time to think of an answer for her first question.

anonymous

Life is NOT a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: "Wow! What a ride!"

anonymous

I was always taught to respect my elders, But it keeps getting harder to find one.

anonymous

When I was young I didn't care about history. Now that I'm older I find that I'm a part of it.

M. Raff

Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.

General Douglas MacArthur

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Edna Ferber

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice

Marquis de Sade

Cocaine habit-forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years.

Tallulah Bankhead

A psychologist said to me, there are only two important questions you have to ask yourself. What do you really feel? And, what do you really want? If you can answer those two, you probably can leave your neuroses behind you.

Harold Ramis

If a man can beat you, walk him.

Satchel Paige

As Commander in Chief of the United States Military, I will never send our sons and daughters and our brothers and sisters to die in a foreign land without telling the truth about why they're going there.

Howard Dean