Quotable Quotes

[Major]

"It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you just bombed."

- U.S Air Force Manual

 

[Major]

"Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there."

- Basic flight rules

 

[Foreigner]

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

 

[Maverick116]

Its better to be alone for the right reasons than be with someone for the wrong ones!!!

 

[Blackadder]

Due to budget cutbacks, the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off.

 

[Fantic125]

I may be no better, but at least I am different.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

 

[Balwyn3103]

"I'm on a whiskey diet. I've lost three days already"

-Tommy Cooper

 

[amaroo]

"There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination." - Willy Wonka

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Bacteria is the only culture some people have.

? Anon

 

[Foreigner]

From a PR consultant's website:

"You can’t build a reputation overnight but you can certainly trash it pretty quickly."

 

[drron]

Now I had mistakenly believed that Government intervention was a recent problem.Then one of the newsletters I read comes up with these-
"Be it or be it not true that man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression." - Herbert Spencer, 1850

"It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men." - Henry L. Menken, 1926

 

[Foreigner]

Now I had mistakenly believed that Government intervention was a recent problem.Then one of the newsletters I read comes up with these-
"Be it or be it not true that man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression." - Herbert Spencer, 1850

"It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every act of the citizen, however secret; it has begun to throw around its operations the high dignity and impeccability of a State religion; its agents become a separate and superior caste, with authority to bind and loose, and their thumbs in every pot. But it still remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men." - Henry L. Menken, 1926

A quote attributed to Thomas Jefferson:

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

 

[JessicaTam]

"I wouldn't want to be a member of any club that would have me as a member".

Groucho Marx



Sent from my iThing.
Why, because iCan.

 

[Bundy Bear]

"When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you" African Proverb
"A wise man makes his own decisions, a ignorant man follows public opinion" Chinese Proverb

 

[amaroo]

Another Chinese proverb.....

man who put cream in bun, not necessarily baker

 

[Foreigner]

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

 

[amaroo]

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi

 

[Major]

The only way to bring peace to the earth is to learn to make our own life peaceful.

Buddha

 

[Foreigner]

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign."


Robert Louis Stevenson ('Tusitala')

 

[Major]

Thought from the Greatest Living Scottish Thinker--Billy Connolly.

"If women are so bloody perfect at multitasking,
How come they can't have a headache and sex at the same time?"
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