Sayings Archive
(Issue #3 posted 12/6/97)

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." - Alfred J. Liebling

"The only cure for stupidity is death." - Gautama the Buddha

"In order to destroy a man, it is only necessary to give his work the character of uselessness." - Schopenhauer

"Nobody knows what a whole army of expert shots could do in the field because there has never been such a thing." - A.G. Banks, in The Rifleman

"At the heart of socialism lies the fallacy that human problems can be solved by social reorganization." - Solzhenitsyn

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors." - Plato

If you have nothing better to do, don't do it here.

"When I'm good I'm very, very good, and when I'm bad I'm even better." - Mae West

"The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment." - William A. Ward

Thou shalt control thyself. (The REAL first commandment.)

"When laws are written in utter ignorance of the situation they pretend to address, they are doomed to ignominious failure." - Bill Rusher

The most doleful injuries a man can inflect upon his son are three:
To raise him without discipline.
To raise him without the joy of reading.
To raise him without firearms.

Tis more blessed to ask forgiveness than permission.

"It's alright to take your time in a fight, as long as you hit first." - Halstad's Old West Almanac

"Life is hopelessly complex for people who have no principles." - Joseph Sobram

If you don't like yourself, you can't like anyone else.

"Work keeps at bay three great evils: boredom, vice, and need." - Voltaire

"If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness." - Theodore Roosevelt

If you think that education is expensive, try ignorance!

"There is no scarcity in this world of people who discover, when left to their own resources, that they haven't any." - The Underground Grammarian

"The essential elements of happiness are good health and a bad memory." - Albert Schweitzer

Tell us not what the mugger did to you, but rather what you did to the mugger.

"Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem." - John Galsworthy

Preoccupation with equality is the disease of the incompetent.

It's not what you know that counts. It's what you can think of in time.

"If one is to retain his respect for either sausages or laws, he should avoid watching them being made." - Bismarck

"Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome." - Chin Ho

"An appeaser is one who feeds the crocodile—hoping it will eat him last." - Winston Churchill

You don't hurt 'em if you don't hit 'em.

"He is most free from danger who, even when safe, is on his guard." - Publius Cyrus

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof...." - First Amendment (Bill of Rights), US Constitution

The trouble with opportunity is that it always comes disguised as hard work.

"Eagles don't flock. You have to find them one at a time." - H. Ross Perot

SODA - See, orient, decide, act.

A country without God doesn't have a prayer.

Out of sight, out of range

"A well disciplined society needs few laws; but it needs strong mores." - Bill Buckley

"A nations bravery in war cannot atone for its timidity in peace." -Vincent Massey

He who knows not, and knows he knows not: He is a child, teach him
He who knows, and knows not he knows: He is asleep, awaken him.
He who knows, and knows he knows: He is a wise man, follow him.
He who knows not, and knows not he knows not: He is a fool, shun him.

What historical disaster!
What a triple-flippin' shame!
Joining FDR and Teddy,
With the same last name!

"Complacent ignorance is the most lethal sickness of the soul." - Plato

"Better a good enemy than a bad friend." - Plato

People are like alcohol—better in small quantities.

Superior minds are concerned with ideas, average minds with events, inferior minds with personalities.

Nothing is taught until something is learned, and nothing is learned until something is changed.

The Fourth Law of Thermodynamics: When the heat is on someone else, it is not on you.

 


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