I WILL ALWAYS be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace. F.C. LORCA
WE WILL REMEMBER not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
WE LIVE in succession, in division, in parts and particles. Meantime, within man, is the soul of the whole, the wise silence; the universal beauty to which every part and particle is equally related; the eternal One. RALPH WALDO EMERSON
ALWAYS leave people better than you found them. Hug the hurt, kiss the broken, befriend the lost, and love the lonely.
YOU BECOME WHAT YOU GIVE YOUR ATTENTION TO. EPICICTUS
INHALE LOVE . . . EXHALE GRATITUDE.
WILL ROGERS 1879-1935 CHEROKEE, PUNDIT, ROPE TRICKS.
THERE IS NOTHING AS EASY AS DENOUNCING. IT don’t take much to see that something is wrong, but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again.
GOOD JUDGMENT comes from experience and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
IF you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
WITH CONGRESS every time they make a joke it’s a law and every time they make a law it’s a joke.
THE TROUBLE with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.
AMERICA HAS THE BEST POLITICIANS MONEY CAN BUY.
A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.
THE MORE you read & observe about this politics thing the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
LOBBYISTS have more offices in Washington than the President. You see, the President only tells congress what they should do. Lobbyists tell’em what they will do.
THE MORE IGNORANT YOU ARE THE QUICKER YOU FIGHT.
LIVE in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
WE will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.
WHAT THE COUNTRY NEEDS IS DIRITER FINGERNAILS AND CLEANER MINDS.
THE WORST THING that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don’t let it get the best of you.
EVERYTHING is changing. People are taking their comedians seriously & the politicians as a joke.
ALWAYS DRINK UPSTREAM FROM THE HERD.
NEVER MISS A CHANCE TO SHUT UP.
YOU KNOW HORSES are smarter than people. you never herd of horse going broke betting on people.
POLITICS has become so epensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
INVEST IN INFLATION. IT IS THE ONLY THING GOING UP.
YOU can’t fool all of the people all of the time. But it isn’t necessary.
I GUESS TRUTH can hurt you worse in an election than anything that can happen to you.
THE CRIME OF TAXATION is not in the taking, it’s the way that it’s spent.
IT’S EASY BEING A HUMORIST when you’ve got the whole government working for you.
PEOPLE WHO FLY INTO A RAGE ALWAYS MAKE A BAD LANDING.
ITS AWFUL HARD to get people interested in corruption unless they can get some of it.
A PRESIDENT just can’t make much showing against congress. They lay awake nights, thinking up things to be against the president on.
ABOUT ALL I CAN SAY for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation.
PEOPLE’S MINDS are changed through observation and not through argument.
SERVE TO MAKE A LIVING; SERVE TO MAKE A LIFE.
A FOOL AND HIS MONEY ARE SOON ELECTED.
ADVERTISING is the art of convincing people to spend money they don’t have for something they don’t need.
I LOVE A DOG. HE DOES NOTHING FOR POLITICAL REASONS.
ALL I KNOW is just what I read in the papers and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.
I DON’T care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace.
TEN MEN in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can’t buy enough to eat.
EVERYBODY IS IGNORANT ONLY ON DIFFERENT SUBJECTS.
ANDY ROONEY 1919-2011 “A Few Minutes with Andy Rooney”.
IF YOU SMILE WHEN NO ONE ELSE IS AROUND, YOU REALLY MEAN IT.
ALWAYS keep your words soft and sweet just in case you have to eat them.
PEOPLE will generally accept facts as truth only if the facts agree with what they already believe.
I’VE LEARNED . . . that when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you.
EVERYONE wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.
I’VE LEARNED that life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end the faster it goes.
BEING KIND IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN BEING RIGHT.
THE AVERAGE DOG IS A NICER PERSON THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON.
I’VE LEARNED . . . that to ignore the facts does not change the facts.
IT’S PARADOXICAL that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.
A STRANGER IS JUST A FRIEND I HAVEN’T MET YET.
WHEN YOU’RE THROUGH LEARNING, YOU’RE THROUGH.
YOU shake a slogan at an American and it’s just like showing a hungry dog a bone.
ANYTHING important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.