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  • Jul 16, 2014, 03:50 PM
    Catsmine
    Old Sayings and Sage Wit
    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.
  • Jul 16, 2014, 03:53 PM
    smoothy
    A fool and their money are soon parted.
  • Jul 16, 2014, 03:56 PM
    J_9
    Even duct tape can't fix stupid.
  • Jul 16, 2014, 04:55 PM
    tickle
    A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
  • Jul 16, 2014, 06:11 PM
    Catsmine
    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.
  • Jul 18, 2014, 04:00 AM
    Catsmine
    Robert Overton wrote:

    "No man has power over my rights and liberties, and I over no man's."
  • Jul 18, 2014, 08:13 AM
    smoothy
    “The State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.” -Mahatma Gandhi
  • Jul 18, 2014, 09:45 AM
    ebaines
    "Democracy is the worst form of government, except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Winston Churchill
  • Jul 18, 2014, 03:16 PM
    cdad
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Catsmine View Post
    Robert Overton wrote:

    "No man has power over my rights and liberties, and I over no man's."

    He lied !!! lol
  • Jul 20, 2014, 02:46 AM
    Catsmine
    Sacred Cows make great hamburger - Mark Twain
  • Jul 20, 2014, 05:17 AM
    joypulv
    Life is a gag, laugh or choke.
  • Jul 20, 2014, 06:18 AM
    DoulaLC
    "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"
  • Jul 20, 2014, 07:02 AM
    talaniman
    A hard head makes a soft a$$.
  • Jul 20, 2014, 02:28 PM
    Alty
    A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice
    .

    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.
  • Jul 21, 2014, 10:15 AM
    Catsmine
    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.
  • Jul 21, 2014, 12:20 PM
    talaniman
    The past is a nice place to visit but not a good place to stay
  • Jul 27, 2014, 03:26 PM
    paraclete
    The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
    Bertrand Russell
  • Jul 27, 2014, 03:35 PM
    paraclete
    The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.
    Bill Watterson
  • Jul 27, 2014, 03:44 PM
    J_9
    "Help! I'm having contraptions and I need my epidermal before my biblical cord gets stuck!"
  • Jul 27, 2014, 03:53 PM
    Wondergirl
    Libraries are vast suppositories of information.
  • Jul 27, 2014, 05:54 PM
    talaniman
    What goes around comes around.
  • Jul 28, 2014, 05:50 AM
    ebaines
    "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
  • Jul 28, 2014, 06:25 AM
    paraclete
    Baines

    Progress is a relative term
  • Jul 28, 2014, 06:27 AM
    J_9
    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
  • Jul 28, 2014, 05:44 PM
    paraclete
    I think you are barking up the wrong gumtree buddy
  • Aug 5, 2014, 12:06 PM
    smoothy
    "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*
  • Aug 5, 2014, 01:58 PM
    Catsmine
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by smoothy View Post
    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.
  • Aug 11, 2014, 05:33 PM
    Catsmine
    Heinlein's Razor - Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
  • Aug 12, 2014, 06:08 PM
    Catsmine
    I am a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect.
  • Aug 14, 2014, 12:10 AM
    paraclete
    I like Albert Einstein

    I just want to know the thoughts of God, everything else is just the details
  • Sep 10, 2014, 05:48 PM
    Catsmine
    The solution to most of the problems of Western Civilization in the style of Robert Ludlum: It is too your fault. Think about it.
  • Sep 15, 2014, 07:55 PM
    paraclete
    "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

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