“If you feed them, if you feed the children, three square meals a day during the school year, how can you expect them to feed themselves in the summer? Wanton little waifs and serfs dependent on the State. Pure and simple.”
~Rush Limbaugh, The Rush Limbaugh Show, December 2011
@edgarblythe,
Limbaugh? Modern day Scrooge still waiting for his three ghosts on Christmas Eve?
Newt Gingrich, the soon-to-be Republican Speaker of the House, was eager to flex his muscle. Minor controversy erupted over remarks he made about welfare reform and orphanages. Some Republicans had suggested that the nation could reduce welfare rolls by placing the children of welfare mothers in orphanages. The idea was to prohibit states from paying welfare benefits for two groups of children: Those whose paternity was not established and those born out of wedlock to women under 18. The savings, according to this proposal, would be used to establish and operate orphanages and group homes for unwed mothers.
I thought this was a horrible idea. In a speech before the New York Women's Agenda on Nov. 30, 1994, I criticized Gingrich.
Gingrich swung back: "I'd ask her to go to Blockbuster and rent the Mickey Rooney movie about Boys Town [an orphanage]. I don't understand liberals who live in enclaves of safety who say, 'Oh, this would be a terrible thing.'
“I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.”
Robert McCloskey
@edgarblythe,
"I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one."
James Gordon Bennett
“There is no exquisite beauty… without some strangeness in the proportion.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
@edgarblythe,
"Every man must be supposed a knave."
David Hume.
“Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.”
― A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
"If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend."
Doug Larson
Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on, le malheur est qu'il tue ses élèves.
We say that time is a great teacher. It's too bad that it also kills all its students.
Berlioz.
“In the old days, it was not called the Holiday Season; the Christians called it 'Christmas' and went to church; the Jews called it 'Hanukkah' and went to synagogue; the atheists went to parties and drank. People passing each other on the street would say 'Merry Christmas!' or 'Happy Hanukkah!' or (to the atheists) 'Look out for the wall!”
― Dave Barry
Dig the well before you are thirsty.
Chinese Proverb
“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.”
― Christopher Hitchens
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
― Salvador Plascencia, The People of Paper
@edgarblythe,
Chris had a few good one. He sure was dead on in his assessment with this one.
"You can't solve a problem with the thinking that created the problem."
Albert Einstein
Das Leben gehört den Lebenden an, und wer lebt, muss auf Wechsel gefasst sein.
Life belongs to the living, and those who live must be prepared for change.
J W von Goethe
@Lustig Andrei,
Hey, Merry, Albert could easily have been talking about you and the nutty ideas about the English language that you memorized, ... badly.
“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.”
Russell Baker
“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
