Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!
Mother Jones
@eurocelticyankee,
"Taste in reading does, in fact, serve to differentiate character in the social world of Jane Austen's novels, a world which offers small scope for difference of opinion in any other matter of general concern."
Mary Lascelles.
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.
- Cary Grant
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
Sir Winston Churchill
@vonny,
Are those are
trees growing on that rock? That's astounding!
“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.”
― Will Rogers
"Too much sanity may be madness. And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton
@Debacle,
This one's for you, D:
"Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair."
-- Sam Ewing
“The strength of a woman is not measured by the impact that all her hardships in life have had on her; but the strength of a woman is measured by the extent of her refusal to allow those hardships to dictate her and who she becomes.”
― C. JoyBell
@Lustig Andrei,
That used to be the case, L.A. But I'm deflated now ... just ears, nose and eyebrows, and the missus sees to them. For $3.oo a month, which she takes out in trade.
At the heart of male bonding is this experience of boys in early puberty: they know they must break free from their mothers and the civilized world of women, but they are not ready yet for the world of men, so they are only at home with other boys, equally outcast, equally frightened, and equally involved in posturing what they believe to be manhood.
- Frank Pittman
“I may not know much, but I know chicken **** from chicken salad.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson
“Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.”
― Jack Canfield, Chicken Soup for the Soul
"Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear if we would only sit down and keep still."
~~ Calvin Coolidge
@Debacle,
The streets are filled with vipers who've lost all ray of hope
You know it ain't even safe no more in the palace of the Pope
- Bob Dylan
“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't. ”
― Pete Seeger
“No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.” ~Christopher Morley
