Random Quotes

You must come again when you have less time.
~Walter Sickert

When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.
~Gracie Allen

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
~Woody Allen

Wit is educated insolence.
~Aristotle

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
~Honore de Balzac

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
~Otto von Bismarck

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
~Napoleon Bonaparte

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
~G. K. Chesterton

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
~Winston Churchill

If you are going through hell, keep going.
~Winston Churchill

I believe in luck; how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?
~Jean Cocteau

Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood.
~Marie Curie

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
~Salvador Dali

Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it.
~Salvador Dali

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
~Marlene Dietrich

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.
~Benjamin Disraeli

Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
~Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
~Albert Einstein

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training.
~Anna Freud

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.
~Mahatma Gandhi

Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children.
~J. Paul Getty

Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.
~John Maynard Keynes

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself.
~Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
~Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
~George Bernard Shaw

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man....which debt he proposes to pay off with your money.
~G. Gordon Liddy

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
~James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.
Douglas Casey,
~Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown Univ.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~P.J. O 'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.
~Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
~Ronald Reagan (1986)

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
~Will Rogers

If you think hea lth care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
~P.J. O 'Rourke

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other.
~Vol taire (1764)

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!
~Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
~Mark Twain (1866)

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
~Unknown

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
~Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
~Mark Twain

The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
~Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

There is no distinctly native American criminal class...save Congress.
~Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
~Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.
~Thomas Jefferson

"Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else?"
~Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, 1/20/1981