We haven't done this in a while but I was in conversation with another member + this recalled me to the subject so I will start out. This is from Mark Twain;" You can raise a child on the cost of one vice."

Those who choose their friends by their wealth and social stature, usually deserve them.

UNK

There are two kinds of people.

Those that listen to good advice; and

Those that have to pee on the electric fence.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself!

FDR

"Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable."

- Woody Allen

"In Heaven all the interesting people are missing."

- Friedrich Nietsche

"Cogito ergo sum."

- Rene Descartes

There are folks in government that shouldn't be allowed to play with matches. Will Rogers.

"Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent."

-Ludwig Wittgenstein

“e = mc2”

- Albert Einstein

“Death only ends what we know. It begins everything else.”

- Anon

In Theory There Is No Difference Between Theory and Practice, While In Practice There Is

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he exites among his opponents. Winston Churchill.

This is one that I have used for many occasions with good right from Benjamin Franklin, "A cat that sits on a hot stove will never set on a hot stove again, nor will it ever sit on a cold one.

When the brain is dead, the body suffers.

Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and George S Patton said a lot of my favorites. And then there is Tom T. Hall:

Sitting on the world we are all wanting to win; and his best:

Faster horses, younger women, older whiskey and more money.

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill.

No man is a good citizen unless he so acts as to show that he actually uses the ten commandments, and translates the Golden Rule into his life conduct. Theodore Roosevelt in the forward of the manual of the "Boy Scouts Of America". Circa 1911.

Lavaca, I loved that song as well as Tom T.s others. "I said I was a poet, my soul was all on fire." He looked at me + said, "You are a liar." then when he went on, "There was something cold + shiney right beside my head + I started to believe the words he said."

We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.

Omar Bradley.

Winston Churchill on Charles De Gaulle "He looks like a female llama who has just been surprised in her bath."
And on Neville Chamberlain "He was given the choice between war + dishonor. He chose dishonor + he will have war anyway."

Mark Twain:

There are three types of people in the world. Those that learn by reading about it. Those that learn by watching others' mistakes. And those that just have to pee on the electric fence.

My mistake, I think it was Will Rodgers. Couldn't have been Twain.

You are right, Lavaca, it was Will Rogers. Here's one from Abraham Lincoln, "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

Of all the thoughts of word or pen,
The saddest is, "it might have been."

Lincoln said "Those that can't skin can hold a leg". That's the view that is missing today.

Give not council to your fears. G.S. Patton

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God."

Matthew 5:9.

"Drink no longer water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake + thine other infirmities."
1st Timothy 5-22

"Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest." Oscar Wilde.

Always do sober what you said you would do drunk. If nothing else, it will teach you to keep your mouth shut!..... E. Hemingway.

"All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action". James Russell Lowell.

“They sicken of the calm who know the storm.”

- Dorothy Parker

Specialization is for insects + moderation is for monks. Robert Heinlin

To win back my youth, there is nothing I would not do- except, of course, take exercise, rise early, or give up tobacco + Alcohol. Oscar Wilde

Having money is not important; it's NOT having money that's important. Me.

If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people he gave it to. Dorothy Parker

The trouble is that the stupid people-who constitute the grand overwhelming majority of this and all other nations-do believe and are molded and convinced by what they get out of a newspaper. Mark Twain

Heard this the other day on a replay of an old TV show.
'When you are in Hell where do you tell someone to go?'. Red Skelton.

"I'd rather have a German division in front of me than a French division behind me." George S. Patton.