Our Favorite Quotes

ping-pong to tennis ball.

 

I wish I was a fish...
I wish I was a bass ...
I'd climb up on the rocks and trees ...
and slide down on my ....


hands and knees.

 

"1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it!

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation."

I wish I knew

 

One of mine to a forum member looking to buy an old Chris Craft for next to nothing. It's a few years back, but I stumbled on it tonight for some reason and thought I'd share.

 

"I can't believe you just said that!" lots of people at parties I have been to

 

So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician. Then in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely thrashed, and, after all these things, to be defeated. - Epictatus

So you wish to design and build your own boat, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to define a statement of objectives, to research design ratios and their significance; to understand materials, building methods and their limitations whether you like it or no, analyze nigh unto paralysis; to abstain from copyright violations; in a word, to give yourself over to the design as to an obsession. Then in the building itself you are likely enough to freeze or fry according to the whims of weather, to swallow a great deal of dust, or to be severely frustrated, and, after all these things, to be drowned because you didn’t know what you were doing.

 

To be honest, my favorite quotations are in my signature.

 

“If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten”

 

- George Carlin gets the credit. Some more beat lines here -

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beat.html

 

Buuild a better mouse trap and the neighbors will ask if you have mice.

 

"There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures."

 

Let me guess: you've been reading Agatha Christie?

(hardly anybody reads Shakespeare . . .)

 

"When I think of all the arguments Marta and I have had, I realize how silly most of them were. And it makes me wonder why she wanted to argue over such stupid things. I think I'll go ask her." - Jack Handey

 

John Marston did. He parodied Shakespeare with, "A boat, a boat, a boat, a full hundred marks for a boat!"

Boats were cheap back then.

 

"Words on parchment, paper, and dot-gov webpages mean nearly nothing if their meaning runs counter to the sentiments and expectations of the population. Put differently, central planning of law – dictating law consciously and from on-high – is no more likely to succeed in achieving maximum coordination of the plans, and maximum fulfillment of the desires, of multitudes of people than is central planning of the economy likely to achieve such outcomes."

-- Don Boudreaux