Quotable Quotes

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 6:27 pm

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest,truthful,and virtuous.

Frederick Douglass (c. 1817-1895)

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 11:05 am

Never try and teach a pig to sing: it's a waste of time, and it annoys the pig.

Robert A. Heinlein

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 5:37 pm

You owe it to us all to get on with what you're good at.

W.H.Auden--------1907-1973

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 8:48 am

Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.

Malcolm Cowley

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 6:16 pm

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge,fitter to bruise than polish.

Anne Bradstreet,American poet---1612-1672

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 9:11 am

The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Feb 24, 2007 7:34 am

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

William Butler Yeats

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:36 am

You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.

Frank Zappa

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:29 pm

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.

Lady Nancy Astor

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:33 am

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

H. L. Mencken

Post by **noreply66** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 3:37 pm

Only the mediocrities of life hide behind the alibi in conference.The great of this earth are not only simple but accessible.

Isaac Frederick Marcosson --American journalist----1876-1961

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 8:52 pm

If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.

Mary Engelbreit

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 12:02 pm

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Abraham Lincoln

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 10:19 pm

He that respects himself is safe from others.He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce.

Henry Wadswoth Longfellow

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 6:31 am

Prohibition may be a disputed theory, but none can say that it doesn't hold water.

Thomas L. Masson

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 4:11 pm

If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink: Good wine -- a friend -- or being dry -- or lest we should be by and by -- or any other reason why.

Henry Aldrich

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 4:28 pm

No man ever made a great speech on a mean subject.

Eugene V. Debs,American socialist leader-----1855-1926

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 10:14 pm

Education is so important when it comes to domesticity. I don't know why no one ever thought to paste a label on the toilet tissue spindle giving 1-2-3 directions for replacing the tissue on it. Then everyone in the house would know what Mama knows.

Erma Bombeck

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 8:42 am

Marriage - a book in which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose.

Beverly Nichols

RiverRatZap · Post by **RiverRatZap** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:39 pm

"You know, if I could memorize every post in the Quotable Quotes thread on SEOP, I'd be a pretty good bull sh*ter". - RiverRatZap

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