What is your favorite Quote or Saying?

[/pine]

Tommy Lasorda once said:

"I don't quit eating because I get full...I quit eating because my arms get tired"

 

[2LaneCruzer]

If I can convince you to believe absurdities, I can persuade you to commit atrocities.

Voltaire (paraphrase)

That is very profound...I think it has application today even more than it did in Voltaire's time. We should all take note and consider its ramifications in today's political climate.

 

[Sodo]

That is very profound...I think it has application today even more than it did in Voltaire's time. We should all take note and consider its ramifications in today's political climate.

Appropriate anytime. What constitutes either the absurdity or atrocity is in the context of its usage.

 

[KiotiKowboy]

If I can convince you to believe absurdities, I can persuade you to commit atrocities.

Voltaire (paraphrase)

We should be dropping that quote on leaflets across the entire middle east.

 

[Fluid]

If you are looking for sympathy, you can always find it in a dictionary.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Something I heard in the "X Files" might be more appropriate for dropping in the Middle East.

"No Amount of Belief Will Establish Fact"

 

[KiotiKowboy]

Something I heard in the "X Files" might be more appropriate for dropping in the Middle East.

"No Amount of Belief Will Establish Fact"

How about this one?

Next time we come, all you'll see is a bright flash.

 

[flusher]

That is very profound...I think it has application today even more than it did in Voltaire's time. We should all take note and consider its ramifications in today's political climate.

Maybe. But IMHO 18th century Voltaire was referring specifically to the religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe which were Christian-on-Christian bloodbaths.

 

[flusher]

That is very profound...I think it has application today even more than it did in Voltaire's time. We should all take note and consider its ramifications in today's political climate.

Maybe. But IMHO 18th century Voltaire was referring specifically to the religious wars of the 16th and 17th centuries in Europe which were Christian-on-Christian bloodbaths.

 

[gghb]

this is my grandfather speaking. "only 2 things that melt in the rain are sh*t and suger and you ain't the sweet one boy."