GREAT QUOTES / 19

Once more into the breach of quotes gleaned and cleaned from the internet, most are just presented as we found them, "down and dirty"...............LOL............... I hope that you find these interesting, thought provoking, funny or pungent or is that poignant...............Anyway here's the 19th installment...........The previous 19 are available in the archives............Just type "GREAT QUOTES" in the search box in the upper left hand corner and..........VOILA (sp?)...........Enjoy.............Scott



The greatest purveyor of violence in the world today. - Assessment of
American foreign policy by Martin Luther King Jr. exactly one year
before he was assassinated on Apri 4, 1968


I would no more teach children military training than I would teach them
arson, robbery, or assassination. - Eugene Debs


Television has ruined every single thing it has touched. - Former Robert
Kennedy aide Adam Walinsky


Offer not good after curfew in Sectors R or N.
-- Firesign Theatre


If you don't want to work, become a reporter. That awful power, the
public opinion of the nation, was created by a horde of self-complacent
simpletons who failed at ditch and shoemaking and fetched up journalism
on their way to poorhouse - Mark Twain


Jehovah the bearded and angry god, gave his worshipers the supreme
example of ideal laziness; after six days of work, he rests for all
eternity. - Paul LaFargue, The Right to be Lazy & Other Studies


"We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve years telling them to sit down and shut up." - Phyllis Diller


Hope has two beautiful daughters: anger and courage; anger at the way
things are, and courage to change them. - Saint Augustine


"My Campaign will be all about housing and jobs. My house and my job." - Unknown (Submitted by Ellen Redman of IBEW Local Union 1049).


"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."
— Charles Darwin, from The Descent of Man (1871)


Wisdom is applied experience-- T. Scott Brineman