Quotes: Post Your Favorites

[Cactus]

"There's a mighty big difference between good, sound reasons and reasons that sound good."
-- Burton Hillis

"The more fundamental laws and facts of physical science have all been discovered, and these are now so firmly established that the possibility of their ever being supplanted in consequence of new discoveries is so excedingly remote as to be declared impossible."
-- Experimental Physicist Albert A. Michelson ten years before Einstein theorized E = mc^2.

 

[PessOptimist]

"We understand things are not running as well as they should. We have created a senior manager's group to formulate a business plan to improve the situation"
--unnamed GS-15

 

[userque]

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that His justice cannot sleep forever.

--Thomas Jefferson

 

[Cactus]

I need a little humor today so hear you go.

"The economic crisis will be over in 60 days."
-- President Hoover, 1930

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a darned fool about it."
-- W. C. Fields

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
-- Mark Twain

"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read, and nobody wants to read."
-- Mark Twain

"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
-- Mark Twain

"Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear, but forgetting where you heard it."
-- Franklin P. Jones

"You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much."
-- James Barnes

"Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement."
-- Snoopy

"It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
-- Woody Allen

"What can you say about a society that says God is dead and Elvis is alive?"
-- Irv Kupcinet

 

[userque]

I am leery of traders who have never lost it all. I think that intense feeling of desperation that accompanies such a horrifically deflating experience indelibly cauterizes great risk management reflexes into a trader’s very being.

--Paul Tudor Jones

 

[userque]

"An average trader makes a trade and feels good; a great trader makes a trade and feels nothing. ..."

--Billions, Season 3 Episode 1

 

[userque]

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

--Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816

 

[userque]

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

--Abraham Lincoln

 

[jonfresno]

More humor...

" I believe virtually everything I read, and I think that is what makes me more of a selective human than someone who doesn't believe anything."

David St. Hubbins (member of Spinal Tap)

 

[userque]

Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does NOT mean to stand by the President or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country.

--Theodore Roosevelt

 

[konakathy]

Life is like a rollercoaster. You can either scream with every bump that comes along or throw up your hands and enjoy the ride. - unknown

 

[userque]

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclination, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

John Adams

 

[userque]

His Example is now complete, and it will teach wisdom and virtue to magistrates, citizens, and men, not only in the present age, but in future generations, as long as our history shall be read.

--John Adams, message to the U.S. Senate, December 19, 1799

 

[kave]

"Tie some kerosene rags around his ankles so the ants don't crawl up his legs and eat his CANDY ASS!" - Dale Earnhardt, Sr.

This was his response during an interview upon hearing that Jeff Gordon was displeased with Dale's rough racing

 

[userque]

Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics, the greatest number have begun their career by paying an obsequious court to the people, commencing demagogues and ending tyrants.

--Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 1, October 27, 1787

 

[userque]

“Curse false-hand-holding boys!”
― Lauren Myracle, Thirteen

 

[userque]

You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is factually incorrect and you had reason to know that it was factually incorrect, then you're guilty of perjury.

---Richard Ben-Veniste

 

[1965Vintage]

"Nuts!"

~General Anthony McAuliffe~

 

[userque]

“I respectfully decline to answer because I honestly believe my answer might tend to incriminate me” ~ Joey Gallo

Mafia Quotes - The Best Extracts From Notorious Mobsters
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Gallo

 

[userque]

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.
--George Orwell, "1984"