GREAT QUOTES /14

Here is yet another installment of "GREAT QUOTES". Enjoy them for themselves. Sprinkle them around your daily life. Share them with whomever you please..................PEACE..........Scott



"If the King James version was good enough for Jesus, it's good enough
for me." - Ma Ferguson.
Married to the impeached governor Pa Ferguson, Ma ran on
the slogan "two governors for the price of one."


"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set,
I go into the other room and read a book." - Groucho Marx


I freed a thousand slaves. I could have freed a thousand more if only
they knew they were slaves. - Harriet Tubman


God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion
....What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned
from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ? Let
them take arms. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree
of liberty must be refreshed from time to time by the blood of patriots and
tyrants. It is its natural manure !

-- Thomas Jefferson at the time of Shays' Rebellion


You can wait here in the sitting room or
you can sit there in the waiting room.
-- Firesign Theatre


"That is true culture which helps us to work for the social betterment of all."
-- Henry Ward Beecher


A life without a little madness in it is hardly worth living.
- Ronald Sukenick


"I can conceive of no better service in the United States, henceforth, by democrats of thorough and heart-felt faith, than boldly exposing the weakness, liabilities and infinite corruptions of democracy."
-- Walt Whitman, "Democracy in the New World"


How is the world ruled and how do wars start. Diplomats tell lies to
journalists and then believe what they read - Karl Kraus


Big light in sky slated to appear in East.
Sonic booms scare minority groups in Sector B.
And there's hamburger all over the highway in Mystic, Connecticut.
-- Firesign Theatre


"Why is the man (or woman) who invests all your money called a broker?" - George Carlin


"The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein