GREAT QUOTES / 15

Another installment of "GREAT QUOTES".................Enjoy, share............LOL................PEACE.....................Scott




The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. - W. Somerset
Maugham


So here we sit, watching a great, stinking skein of corruption being
fished to the surface of Washington, while the town is simultaneously
filled with a great babble about God, prayer and morality. Corruption
trails head off in all directions -- lobbyists, wives, jobs, perverting
intelligence, outing agents for petty revenge -- all this and a Prayer
Breakfast every day. - Molly Ivins


A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the
support of Paul - George Bernard Shaw


Just remember, the toe you step on today may be connected to the ass
you're kissing tomorrow - Former Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci


Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
- Mark Twain


"That's metaphysically absurd, man!"
-- Firesign Theatre


I am waiting for my case to come up
and I am waiting for
a rebirth of wonder
and I am waiting for someone
to really discover America

- Lawrence Ferlinghetti


Augustus was sensible that mankind is governed by names; nor was he
deceived in his expectation, that the senate and people would submit to
slavery, provided they were respectfully assured that they still enjoyed
the ir ancient freedom. - Edward Gibbons, The Decline and Fall of the
Roman Empire


Things are so bad now the Iraqis are offering to help us restore
democracy in Washington. -- Jay Leno



Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the
nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.
-- John Maynard Keynes


There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly
what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear
and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is
another theory which states that this has already happened.
- Douglas Adams


If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion."
- George Bernard Shaw


Art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others - Albert Camus


Corn! Now we can make torillas!
-Firesign Theatre