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ZZZ: OT:: AGELESS WIT AND OBSERVATIONS (and Truisms)

On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:58:07 EDT, Grum...@aol.com wrote:

"If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the
newspaper you are misinformed."
Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress....
But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain

I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a
man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill

A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support
of Paul.
- George Bernard Shaw

A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt he
proposes to pay off with your money.
-G Gordon Liddy

Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich
countries to rich people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live
at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist (1801-1850)

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving,
subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan (1986)

I don't make jokes I just watch the government and report the facts.
-Will Rogers

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics
won't take an interest in you!
-Pericles (430 B.C.)

No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in
session.
-Mark Twain (1866)

Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at
one end and no responsibility at the other.
-Ronald Reagan

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The
inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the
taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain

What this country needs are more unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist (1928 - 1995)

A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to
take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson

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visit violence on those who would do us harm." ...George Orwell


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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 01:15:03 -0700 (PDT), mrfo...@evanescently.com wrote:

On Mar 26, 3:58 pm, Grum...@aol.com wrote:

Talk is cheap...except when Congress  does it.
-Unknown

Papa
spanking

Google says: Cullen Hightower.

Fox

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. (also
Hightower)

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:58:08 -0700 (PDT), CrimsnKid6 <...@aol.com> wrote:

GrumpyOldPapa quoting a self-description of "leadership":

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, �with a happy appetite at
one end and no responsibility at the other.
-Ronald �Reagan

He not only said it, he demonstrated it quite emphatically...
L.L.A.P.,
--C.K.

"Spanking, it creates no debt for future generations...