"I never worry about being driven to drink; I just worry about being driven home."
.... W. C. Fields
“Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.”
― Jules Verne
The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them.
Emily Bronte
"I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap."
~~ Rodney Dangerfield
“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
~~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
"Our nature lies in movement;complete calm is death."
--Blaise Pascal, Pensees
"He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend; provided, of course, he really is dead."
~~Voltaire
“A drunk was in front of a judge. The judge says "You've been brought here for drinking." The drunk says "Okay, let's get started.”
― Henny Youngman
"You want fries with that?" Anyone receiving the new North Carolina first class education
“It is hard to be angry when one has seen the sun rise,' she said.
It seems to be true,' he admitted. 'I wonder why.'
Because it makes one feel so small and insignificant. It has been rising forever and will rise forever no matter what we do or do not do. All our problems are as nothing to the sun.”
― David Gemmell
"Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster."
-- Joe Adcock
@Lustig Andrei,
"If Satch (Satchel Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time."
~~ Dizzy Dean
Check this out, Andy:
http://www.historynet.com/barnstorming-aces-satchel-paige-and-dizzy-dean.htm
Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
~~Satchel Paige
"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
attributed to Yogi Berra
(Thx for that link, D.)
It is hard to reach Americans regarding America. It’s not a place so much as a mindset. For myself, I got out of that mindset quite by accident, but it also took some effort. When confronted by contradictions that made me uncomfortable, I did not stuff them away and ignore them.
-- Mark Tokarski
“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
― Tennessee Williams
“The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn't ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.”
― Cornelia Funke,
“Who you gonna believe, bitch? Me? or your lying eyes?”
― Richard Pryor
