Quotable quotes

I have several favorites. Here are some:

5th century BC Greek historian/general Thucydides: "The society that separates its scholars from its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting by fools."

Greek philosopher Aristotle: "Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms."
Unknown: A conservative baby is born head first, a liberal baby is born hand-out first.
Patrick Rothfuss: There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
Thomas Sowell: "A high IQ and low information is a very dangerous combination."

And finally, I used to resort to this one when lecturing my sons:
Nobel Prize-winning French author Andre Gide: "All things are said already, but since no one is listening…."

"There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know."
Harry Truman

My grandpa had a few good quotes...

"Hang around with people smarter than you, it rubs off"

"I don't mind a man that takes a drink, I don't like when the drink takes the man"

"A cigarette is a fire on one end and a fool on the other"

"Don't let the little head do the thinking for the big head"

"Quit countin' your fingers, you ain't gonna make it to 9" (in reference to the birth of a child in the early days of a marriage)

I've quit trying to draw distinctions between "fascism," "socialism," "progressivism," "communism,""naziism," and so forth. What difference does it make? It all means "tyranny" one way or the other. As I've said for years, when there is a boot on your neck, you don't care whether it's a "left" boot or a "right" boot, you just want the boot OFF your neck, and the boot-wearer GONE--and preferably DEAD, as a warning to other potential book-wearers.

When the Democrats are in power you have to hide your guns under a pile of Playboys, and when the Republicans are in power, you have to hide your Playboys under a pile of guns.

Snake45 said:

When the Democrats are in power you have to hide your guns under a pile of Playboys, and when the Republicans are in power, you have to hide your Playboys under a pile of guns.

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Haha isn't that the truth

Another grandpa quote...

"A farting horse will never tire and a farting man is the man to hire"

"I am NOT a crook!!!"....Donald Trump, I mean Richard Nixon!

Listen to me now & believe me later...

- Hanz - SNL

My father's birds and bees talk (really): Looky, looky, but don't touch the cookie.

epags said:

My father's birds and bees talk (really): Looky, looky, but don't touch the cookie.

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From that early training I learned two expressions, depending upon who I was with:
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
and
"Out of sight, out of mind"

epags said:

From that early training I learned two expressions, depending upon who I was with:
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder"
and
"Out of sight, out of mind"

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Did you also learn:

"Look before you leap"

and

"He who hesitates is lost" ?

"I did NOT have sex with that woman "

-Some sociopath...

Remember children: There are no stupid questions, only stupid people.
--Mr Garrison

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
--Robert. J. Hanlon

Failure: When your best just isn't good enough.
--Unknown

Saying heard at work ( Can't fix stupid but can watch it leak out of them )

Some people have youth, some have beauty...
I have menace.

Edward G. Robinson

Nice move exlax.
Brains were dynamite you couldn't blow your nose.

Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one.
Author unknown by me.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
My father.

Heaven has walls and a very strict entrance policy.
Hell has open borders

In the 1950's TV sitcom, at breakfast, after the son was disciplined the night before.....

June said to Ward: "You were awful hard on the Beaver last night".