GREAT QUOTES / 27

Here is the last installment of "GREAT QUOTES" for 2006................ I hope that you have enjoyed the many varied quotes that have come my way this year................Please share them if there is a ring of truth to them for you. Thanks................HAPPY NEW YEAR..............PEACE...............Scott


But have you ever tried to spear a buffalo after a hard night at the old wassail bowl?
-- Gore Vidal, The Smithsonian Institution


There's class warfare, all right, but it's my class, the rich class,
that's making war, and we're winning. --Warren Buffett


"The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of their tires." - Dorothy Parker


Louis Armstrong can say something with one note, but then there are
others who take an hour to rev up. . . and wind up with a fart in a
bathtub. - Musician John Kenneth Davern, who died recently


The chief product
of an automated society
is a widespread
and deepening sense of boredom.

— Cyril Parkinson


The truth about [America’s] past is not that it is too brief, or too superficial,
but only that we, having turned our faces so resolutely away from it,
have never demanded from it what it has to give.”
– James Baldwin, from Notes of a Native Son


"Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group, of course, that believes that you can do these things. Among them are a few Texas oil millionaires, and an occasional politician or businessman from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid." -President Dwight D. Eisenhower


An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, stays bought - Simon
Cameron, Lincoln's Secretary of War


I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government
had better get out of their way & let them have it - Dwight D.
Eisenhower


The real events that influence our lives don't announce themselves with
brass trumpets but come softly, on the feet of doves. - Josephine
Herbst


A doctor can bury his mistakes. An architect can only advise his clients
to plant vines. -- F. L. Wright


Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom - Soren Kiekegaard


"It is not the hand that signs the law that holds the destiny of America. It is the hand that casts the ballot." - Harry Truman


History is the sum total of the things they're not telling us. - Don
DeLillo, Libra


One must have some occupation nowadays. If I hadn't my debts I shouldn't
have anything to think about. - Oscar Wilde


The Americans, in their intercourse with strangers, appear impatient of
the smallest censure and insatiable of praise. . . . They unceasingly
harass you to extort praise, and if you resist their entreaties they
fall to praising themselves. It would seem as if, doubting their own
merit, they wished to have it constantly exhibited before their eyes. -
Alexis de Tocqueville


Don't worry about avoiding temptation... as you grow older, it will
avoid you - Winston Churchill