Quotations

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom — go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen!”
    — Samuel Adams, Philadelphia – August 1, 1776

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “Our political situation is prodigiously changed since you left us. Instead of that noble love of liberty, and that republican government, which carried us triumphantly thro the dangers of the war, an Anglo-Monarchio-Aristocratic party has arisen. Their avowed object is to impose on us the substance, as they have already given us the form, of the…[Read more]

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “When a Jew murders a Gentile (a Samaritan), there will be no death penalty. What a Jew steals from a Gentile he may keep.”
    — Sanhedrin 57a

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
    — John 8:44

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “White folks was in the caves while we (blacks) was building empires. … We built pyramids before Donald Trump ever knew what architecture was. … We taught philosophy and astrology and mathematics before Socrates and them Greek homos ever got around to it.”
    — Reverend Al Sharpton

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.”
    — Oliver Herford

    • “Civility might have much more to do with conscious intention — awareness — than with not hurting feelings. In fact, on occasion, it might actually be civil to hurt someone’s feelings as long as you know what you’re doing. [It is] a far more complex matter than superficial politeness.”
      — M. Scott Peck

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    seen on a sign…
    If attacked by a group of clowns go for the juggler.

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “There is an old Russian saying, ‘He who does not take risks, never drinks champagne.'”
    «Тот, кто не рискует, никогда не пьет шампанское».
    — Vladimir Putin

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    Abraham Lincoln loved telling jokes. He believed that a humorous story was often the best way of teaching something. This was a favorite joke he was known to have told his sons…

    “How many legs would a dog have if you called its tail a leg?”
    “Five!” his sons would answer.
    “No, it would have only four,” Lincoln would reply. “Calling a tail a leg d…[Read more]

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
    — Winston Smith

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “Remember, you wanted this.”
    — Jack Reacher

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    from a time when humor was actually funny…
    “The thing I don’t understand about the suicide person is the people who try to commit suicide, for some reason they don’t die, and that’s it. They stop trying. Why don’t they just keep trying? What’s changed? Is their life any better now? No. In fact, it’s worse, because now they’ve found out here’s…[Read more]

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “Most celebrities are afraid someone’s going to attack them. I want someone to attack me.”
    — Mike Tyson

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we…[Read more]

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “‘Reality’ is just a word, and you shouldn’t use it without quotation marks around it anyway.”
    — Joseph Campbell

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “Karma is only a bitch if you are.”

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 9 months ago

    “Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.”
    — Kahlil Gibran

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 10 months ago

    “Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without…[Read more]

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 10 months ago

    “People are always saying, ‘What would Jesus do?’ They don’t wanna know so they can do it – they just wanna know so they can tell other people to do it!”
    — George Carlin

  • John posted an update in the group Group logo of QuotationsQuotations 5 years, 10 months ago

    “WAR is a racket. It always has been… It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives.”
    — General Smedley Butler, 1935

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