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Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 12:57 am
by yiraheerai
Ha! I live in New Mexico though. You were close.
I haven't been to Arizona enough to know how right that is. Hell, I haven't been to a lot of places in
New Mexico to really know half the stuff I'm reading in NM History.
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2015 6:02 pm
by Artemisia
"No practical definition of freedom would be complete without the freedom to take the consequences. Indeed, it is the freedom upon which all the others are based." - T. Pratchett Going Postal.
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:45 pm
by BlairFan
"With books, flowers, freedom, and the moon, who could not be happy?" - Oscar Wilde, De Profundis.
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:43 pm
by MuchachoNL
"I don't think I could ever complete anyone.
But driving someone insane sounds doable."
- Random pic I found and uploaded to my FB wall.
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 7:38 pm
by BlairFan
"If you think you can't do it, you are right. And if you think you can do it, you are also right."
-My brother in law.
P.S. Actually, he was quoting Henry Ford.
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2015 8:46 pm
by BlairFan
"Nobody is more tyrannical than a slave." - Oscar Wilde
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 11:16 pm
by GothPoet
"Watching someone watching something on a YouTube video sounds like a sign that humanity has officially jumped the shark." - Danny Gallagher, CNET
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Wed Aug 19, 2015 4:41 am
by Dirty n Evil
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
- G. K. Chesterton
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Fri Aug 21, 2015 4:57 pm
by BlairFan
"The surest sign of fiction is the happy ending." - Oscar Wilde.
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Sat Oct 17, 2015 12:36 pm
by Tenjen
The Doctor: "Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many."
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Sat Jan 09, 2016 2:12 am
by Don Alexander
"I know fresh torments that are presently inconceivable to you but which you will look back upon with nostalgia, as a time before your agony really began."
- Lord Arioch, Duke of Hell, to the traitorous Prince Gaynor the Damned, from
The Revenge of the Rose by Michael Moorcok.
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Fri Jun 17, 2016 10:44 am
by Azrael
"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force. Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy." ~ Winston Churchill in his address to Harrow, 29OCT41
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2016 4:59 pm
by BlairFan
"Too True To Be Good" - one of Bernard Shaw's many plays.
(I don't know if that play is any darn good, but I love its title. ;)
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Tue Jul 19, 2016 3:54 pm
by BlairFan
"Every emotion must be paid for, even the most noble and self-sacrificing." - Oscar Wilde, from De Profundis.
Re: Quote-tastic!
Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2016 5:01 pm
by Don Alexander
Sent to me by my mom:
If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates. ~Jay Leno~
The problem with political jokes is they get elected. ~Henry Cate, VII
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office ~Aesop~
If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these State of the Union speeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. ~Will Rogers~
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river. ~Nikita Khrushchev~
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. ~Clarence Darrow~
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. ~John Quinton~
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. ~Author unknown~
Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~Oscar Ameringer~
I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them. ~Adlai Stevenson, 1952~
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country. ~ Texas Guinan~
I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. ~Charles de Gaulle~
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. ~Doug Larson~
There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on Congressmen. ~Will Rogers