"Go Suck Eggs!!" Makes me laugh every time I hear it. At one time or another, I heard my dad say that to people from all walks of life. Teachers, preachers, friends, family, cops, robbers, judges, and lawyers.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin "The combination of precise formulas with highly imprecise assumptions can be used to establish, or rather to justify, practically any value one wishes." - Benjamin Graham "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick "Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys." –P.J. O’Rourke "Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable and to give the appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell "Institutions and laws are but the outward manifestations or outcome of the underlying ideas, sentiments, customs, in short, character. To urge a different outcome would in no way alter men's character -- or the outcome." -GUSTAV LE BON "When law and morality contradict each other, the citizen has the cruel alternative of either losing his moral sense or losing his respect for the law." --Frederic Bastiat "There was perfect gun control in the concentration camps. No inmate ever shot another." — D. G. Lesvic "A principle cannot be compromised but only adhered to or surrendered. Honesty is abandoned as much by the theft of a dime as of a dollar." - Leonard E. Read (1898-1983) "People hired by government know who is their benefactor. People who lose their jobs or fail to get them because of the government program do not know that that is the source of their problem. The good effects are visible. The bad effects are invisible. The good effects generate votes. The bad effects generate discontent, which is as likely to be directed at private business as at the government." - Milton Friedman "To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men." — Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Don’t try to be original. Be simple. Be good technically, and if there is something in you, it will come out. ” - Henri Matisse "Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought six, result misery." Mr. Micawber's advice to young David Copperfield Micah, chapter 6: 8 He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God? "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too." - William Somerset Maugham, Strictly Personal [1941] "Only a few prefer liberty. The majority seek nothing more than fair masters." - Sallust, Histories "The difference between truth and fiction: fiction has to make sense." - Mark Twain "If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten." Russian Proverb "There is no evidence that social evolution must move steadily upwards in a straight line. Social standstill and social retrogression are historical facts which we cannot ignore. World history is the graveyard of dead civilizations." Ludwig von Mises: Socialism "You have rights antecedent to all earthly governments: rights that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; rights derived from the Great Legislator of the universe." -John Adams Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. - H.L. Mencken "War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. The earthquake means good business for construction workers, and cholera improves the business of physicians, pharmacists, and undertakers; but no one has for that reason yet sought to celebrate earthquakes and cholera as stimulators of the productive forces in the general interest." — Ludwig von Mises, Nation, State, and Economy [1919] "Democracy is the most vile form of government...democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths." - James Madison "Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide." - John Adams "In the end we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught." - Baba Dioum "I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." - Helen Keller "The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last forever." - Anatole France "He alone is great and happy who requires neither to command nor to obey in order to secure his being of some importance in the world." — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "Americans always try to do the right thing -- after they've tried everything else." - Winston Churchill "Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." - Harry S. Truman "It is no crime to be ignorant of economics, which is, after all, a specialized discipline and one that most people consider to be a 'dismal science.' But it is totally irresponsible to have a loud and vociferous opinion on economic subjects while remaining in this state of ignorance." - Murray N. Rothbard "All military geniuses love centralization, which increases their strength, and all centralizing geniuses love war, which obliges nations to concentrate all powers in the hands of the state." - Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, Volume 2 [1840] "We must have a government of laws and not men." - John Adams "The voice of the majority is no proof of justice." - Johann von Schiller "Truth is not the halfway point between two untruths." - Ludwig von Mises "In the absence of a gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation." - Alan Greenspan "The first panacea of a mismanaged nation is inflation. The second is war." - Ernest Hemingway "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill "We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience." - G.B. Shaw Numbers are like people - torture them enough and they will tell you anything. "Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value: zero." - Voltaire "Paper money has had the effect in your state that it will ever have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open the door to every species of fraud and injustice." - George Washington "Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Voltaire ASSET VALUES ARE THEORETICAL; LIABILITIES ARE REAL. "The Welfare State is merely a method for transforming the market economy step by step into socialism." - Ludwig von Mises "A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." - Bertrand de Jouvenel "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world." - Immanuel Kant "I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." - Thomas Jefferson "Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity." - Goethe "When gold argues the cause, eloquence is powerless." - Publicus Syrus "The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity, and the brute by instinct." - Marcus Tullius Cicero "They made a desert and called it peace." - Tacitus "The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation." - Lenin "Most people would rather die than think -- in fact, they do." - George Santayana
'Pain nobly borne strengthens the soul.' - Amy Carmichael. 'He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.' - Jim Elliot 'They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance' - Gen. John Sedgwick moments before being hit by a Confederate sniper.
Here's my top 4. "Breakfast is served." "Lunch is served." "Dinner is served." "Ready for a cup of coffee?"
“The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.” - Robert Pirsig
"I csn predict with absolute certainty that within another generation there will be another World War if the nations of the world do not convert this method by which to prevent it"-Woodrow Wilson near the end of his Presidency on wanting the U.S. to join the League of Nations following World War 1. He was probably hated for saying this, but in the end, he was right.
