“The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.” - Tallulah Bankhead
"Look, half the time when I see the evening news, I wouldn't be for me, either."
–Bill Clinton, in 1995, on a pre-campaign swing through Montana and Colorado
To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last--but eat you he will.
Ronald Reagan
@edgarblythe,
Ronnie was a prophet. He described his time as president, and the actions of his government against innocent countries, perfectly.
It's hard to kiss the lips at night that chew your ass out all day long.
Rodney Carrington
@edgarblythe,
Funny, edgar.
Wally(Wallis) Simpson: A woman can't be too thin or too rich.
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Experience has shown how deeply the seeds of war are planted by economic rivalry and social injustice.
Harry S. Truman
Adam Come get your Rib
- song title by country artist, Wayne Rainey
“The prison was very important - as everywhere on earth. Everywhere the building of a prison is the first step in the organization of a civilized state.”
― B. Traven
Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care
The death of each day's life, sore labour's bath
Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,
Chief nourisher in life's feast.
~William Shakespeare, Macbeth
“Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.”
― Voltaire, Questions sur les Miracles à M. Claparede, Professeur de Théologie à Genève, par un Proposant: Ou Extrait de Diverses Lettres de M. de Voltaire
“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
― Leonardo da Vinci
@edgarblythe,
And nothing weakens authority so much as a clamouring Tower of Babel.
It can go both ways, as you will already know.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
~ Albert Einstein
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
SIGMUND FREUD, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis
The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
Carl Jung
Teenagers are people who act like babies if they’re not treated like adults.
Mad Magazine
No bum that can't speak poifect English oughta stay in this country...oughta be de-exported the hell outta here!
Archie Bunker
