Random Quotes

[Demetrius]

The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.

    -Gore Vidal

[Welsh Wench]

Vindicta Nemo magis gaudet quam foemina.
~~Decimus Junius Juvenal

[Capt Spleen]

Injustice in the end produces independence.
      -Voltaire

[LadyDracolich]

Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you fight with your neighbor. It makes you shoot at your landlord-and it makes you miss him.
~Old Irish Saying

[DonaCatalina]

Glac bog an saol agus glacfaidh an saol bog tú
Take the world nice and easy, and the world will take you the same.

~ Irish Proverb

[Harbinger]

From the 1973 "The Three Musketeers":

    Porthos: May one ask -- delicately -- the cause in which we're expected to die?
    Aramis: When you go on a campaign, does the King give his reasons? He says, "Porthos, fight!" and you fight.
    Porthos: Oh, I do, I do!
    Aramis: Then let's go and be killed where we're told to! Is life worth so many questions?

[Jack Daw at Work]

"The honour the Sleat Carpenter obtained...is still preserved for his descendants."

Highland Poet, Duncan Ban MacIntyre

[Rani Zemirah]

You don't have to preach honesty to men with creative purpose. Let a human being throw the engines of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.

~Walter Lippmann~


The freedom of any society varies proportionately with the volume of its laughter.

~Zero Mostel~

[bree]

Interum feror cupidine partium magnarum eurpoe vincendarum

sometimes i have the urge to conquer large parts of europe

[Master Benjamin]

"A little revolution every now and again is a good thing"
 
   Thomas Jefferson

[Eric the Ugly]

"No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights." — Edmund A. Opitz

[Lady Kathleen of Olmsted]

Is that a loaded gun you have there? Or are you just happy to see me?".....Mae West

[Jack Daw at Work]

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.  Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Groucho

[Rani Zemirah]

I may be a schizophrenic but at least I've got each other.

~Townes Van Zandt~

[Ambios]

"An eye for an eye, it was all that filled their minds,
and another eye for another eye, till everyone is blind"

Tommy Sands, from "There were Roses"