GREAT TRUTHS

    • 2 posts
    March 15, 2013 2:56 AM PDT
     1. In my many years I have come to conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams


    2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain

    3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain

    4. I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. -- Winston Churchill

    5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. – George Bernard Shaw

    6. A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.. -- G. Gordon Liddy

    7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. --James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

    8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Case, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University .

    9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.-- P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

    10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. – Frederic Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)

    11. Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps  moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.-- Ronald Reagan (1986)

    12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers

    13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P. J. O'Rourke

    14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. --Voltaire (1764)

    15. Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you! -- Pericles (430 B.C.)

    16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.-- Mark Twain (1866)

    17. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. Anonymous

    18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan

    19. The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. - Winston Churchill

    20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.-- Mark Twain

    21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly ist o fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

    22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress. -- Mark Twain

    23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians --Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)

    24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson

    25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop

    • 3006 posts
    March 15, 2013 4:34 AM PDT
    Ahhh some of my favorites from Mr Clemens are included,no matter what century he landed in he was bound to raise eyebrowsOne of my favorites,"The coldest winter I ever knew was the summer I spent in San Francisco"
  • March 16, 2013 2:03 AM PDT
    Thanks much. I had to share these with a scooter forum, a sports car forum and FB.

    Jon
    • 2 posts
    March 20, 2013 1:49 PM PDT

    1.   Advice for the day: If you have a lot of tension and you get a headache, do what it says on the aspirin bottle: "Take two aspirin" and "Keep away from children."
    --Author Unknown

    2.   "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."
    --Drew Carey

    3.   "The problem with the designated driver program, it's not a desirable job, but if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At the end of the night, drop them off at the wrong h ouse."
    --Jeff Foxworthy

    4.   "If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there is a man on base."
    -- Dave Barry

    5.   "Relationships are hard. It's like a full time job, and we should treat it like one. If your boyfriend or girlfriend wants to leave you, they should give you two weeks' notice. There should be severance pay, the day before they leave  you, they should have to find you a temp."
    --Bob Ettinger

    6.   "My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said,  Mom , they weren't trying to teach you how to swim.'"
    --Paula Poundstone
     

    7.   "A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to s ay to the authors of that study: "Duh."
    --Conan O'Brien 

    8.   Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God.... I could be eating a slow learner."
    --Lynda Montgomery
     

    9.   "I think that's how Chicago got started. Bunch of people in New York said, 'Gee, I'm enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn't cold enough. Let's go west.'"
    --Richard Jeni

    10.  "If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead."
    --Johnny Carson

    11.    "Sometimes I think war is God's way of teaching us geography."
    --Paul Rodriguez

    12.  "Remember in elementary school, you were told that incase of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?"
    --Warren Hutcherson

    13.   "Bigamy is having one wife/husband too many. Monogamy is the same."
    --Oscar Wilde

    14.  Our bomb s are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Afghanistan "
    --A. Whitney Brown

    15.  "You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you a look that says, My God, you're right! I never would've thought of that!'"
    -- Dave Barry

    16.  Do you know why they call it "PMS"? Because "Mad Cow Disease" was taken.
    --Unknown, presumed deceased

    17.  “Everybody's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
    - W. C. Fields