Favourite Quotes and Quotations

I real love this quote from Thinner:

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Sure, we need the Gypsies. We always have. Because if you don't have someone to run out of town once in a while, how are you going to know you yourself belong there?

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Almost as much as I love this one, from On Writing:

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There are a lot of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. They are agents of the status quo. Not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.

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Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues.
- Joseph Hall

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
- Bob Hope

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
- Bob Hope

I do benefits for all religions - I'd hate to blow the hereafter on a technicality.
- Bob Hope

I'd posted this in "hijack this thread"....cool hey, how it found its way here?

Release Santa Claus!

Provide the Tooth Fairy w/adequate pay!

Eliminate omm poppa mow mow!

You posted two quotes you loved so thought you meant for them to go in the Favorite Quotations thread.

"Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be." - P.J. O'Rourke

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Originally Posted by zelmonster

"Oh, God. The Sixties are coming back. Well I've got a 12-gauge double-barreled duck gun chambered for three-inch Magnum shells. And - speaking strictly for this retired hippie and former pinko beatnik - if the Sixties head my way, they won't get past the porch steps. They will be history. Which, for chrissakes, is what they're supposed to be." - P.J. O'Rourke

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Hi

What a 12 gauge a$$hole!

Trust the right to bring armed violence to a debate. eh?

Long days and pleasant nights

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Like so many people, in so many countries, who started out to "spread the wealth," Barack Obama has ended up spreading poverty.

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~Thomas Sowell

We make war that we may live in peace.
~Aristotle

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. Cyril Connolly
(1903 - 1974)

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before... He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)