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Catsmine
Jul 16, 2014, 03:50 PM
Since we're not going to do signatures anymore, here's a place for your favorites.
I'll start with one of my most recent:
Common sense is so rare that it should be considered a super power.
smoothy
Jul 16, 2014, 03:53 PM
A fool and their money are soon parted.
J_9
Jul 16, 2014, 03:56 PM
Even duct tape can't fix stupid.
tickle
Jul 16, 2014, 04:55 PM
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
Catsmine
Jul 16, 2014, 06:11 PM
My favorite polemicist was Robert A. Heinlein:
Love is that condition in which the happiness and well-being of another become essential to your own.
Catsmine
Jul 18, 2014, 04:00 AM
Robert Overton wrote:
"No man has power over my rights and liberties, and I over no man's."
smoothy
Jul 18, 2014, 08:13 AM
“The State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” -Mahatma Gandhi
ebaines
Jul 18, 2014, 09:45 AM
"Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Winston Churchill
cdad
Jul 18, 2014, 03:16 PM
Robert Overton wrote:
"No man has power over my rights and liberties, and I over no man's."
He lied !!! lol
Catsmine
Jul 20, 2014, 02:46 AM
Sacred Cows make great hamburger - Mark Twain
joypulv
Jul 20, 2014, 05:17 AM
Life is a gag, laugh or choke.
DoulaLC
Jul 20, 2014, 06:18 AM
"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"
talaniman
Jul 20, 2014, 07:02 AM
A hard head makes a soft a$$.
Alty
Jul 20, 2014, 02:28 PM
A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice
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A day without sunshine is like, you know, night. :)
If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Catsmine
Jul 21, 2014, 10:15 AM
Another Twain:
Sometimes I wonder if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it.
talaniman
Jul 21, 2014, 12:20 PM
The past is a nice place to visit but not a good place to stay
paraclete
Jul 27, 2014, 03:26 PM
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. (https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/quotes/quotes/b/bertrandru101364.html)
Bertrand Russell (https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/quotes/authors/b/bertrand_russell.html)
paraclete
Jul 27, 2014, 03:35 PM
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. (https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/quotes/quotes/b/billwatter105988.html)
Bill Watterson (https://www.askmehelpdesk.com/quotes/authors/b/bill_watterson.html)
J_9
Jul 27, 2014, 03:44 PM
"Help! I'm having contraptions and I need my epidermal before my biblical cord gets stuck!"
Wondergirl
Jul 27, 2014, 03:53 PM
Libraries are vast suppositories of information.
talaniman
Jul 27, 2014, 05:54 PM
What goes around comes around.
ebaines
Jul 28, 2014, 05:50 AM
"Every passing hour brings the Solar System 43,000 miles close to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist there is no such a thing as progress."
-Malichi Constant, in "Sirens of Titan" by Kurt Vonnegut
"So it goes" - also by Vonnegut
paraclete
Jul 28, 2014, 06:25 AM
Baines
Progress is a relative term
J_9
Jul 28, 2014, 06:27 AM
Since we are being all serious here...
"I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results." Florence Nightingale
paraclete
Jul 28, 2014, 05:44 PM
I think you are barking up the wrong gumtree buddy
smoothy
Aug 5, 2014, 12:06 PM
"There are three kinds of men: The ones that learns by reading. The few who
learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence
for themselves."
WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers*
Catsmine
Aug 5, 2014, 01:58 PM
WILL ROGERS, *The Manly Wisdom of Will Rogers*
My favorite from the cowboy philosopher is about Learning something new every day or you wasted it.
Catsmine
Aug 11, 2014, 05:33 PM
Heinlein's Razor - Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Catsmine
Aug 12, 2014, 06:08 PM
I am a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect.
paraclete
Aug 14, 2014, 12:10 AM
I like Albert Einstein
I just want to know the thoughts of God, everything else is just the details
Catsmine
Sep 10, 2014, 05:48 PM
The solution to most of the problems of Western Civilization in the style of Robert Ludlum: It is too your fault. Think about it.
paraclete
Sep 15, 2014, 07:55 PM
"If you hire people just because they can do a good job, they'll work for your money.
But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they'll work for you with blood, sweat and tears"
Simon Sinek