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ian
01-10-2007, 10:57 PM
Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion.

Islandhead
02-10-2007, 09:45 AM
It is better to keep quiet and let people assume you are foolish than to open your mouth and confirm it ;)

worzel
02-10-2007, 12:00 PM
It is better to keep quiet and let people assume you are foolish than to open your mouth and confirm it ;)
I thought it was better to remain silent than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
I don't mind seeing what Ian has to say.
When mowing there is not too much to think about mowing, but heaps of time of solving world's problems and when do I get a holiday, lol
Cheers :i dunno: :i dunno: :i dunno: :i dunno:

Islandhead
02-10-2007, 12:33 PM
Thanks for correcting me worzel, i appreciate that...

What intrigues me is I never mentioned Ian at all lol ;)

worzel
02-10-2007, 12:56 PM
Thanks for correcting me worzel, i appreciate that...

What intrigues me is I never mentioned Ian at all lol ;)
Hi Islandhead
I am the one who mentioned Ian because he seems to find someones post to pick on.
I do agree with that quote though.
I tell my wife that and she tells me to shut the **** up.
I find when reading posts they start on one subject then shift to something completely different.
Yo- why are you not working, I've stuffed my shoulder up and doing 3-5 hours a day :russ: :russ: :russ: :russ:

Islandhead
02-10-2007, 01:07 PM
Doh... hope your shoulder gets better soon man

I'm on easy street at the moment. I have a friend over from the UK and he's helping me out on my jobs. He gets a Hungry Jacks for lunch (keeps him happy) and I get a lot more free time. I'll be proper sad when he goes back :laughing: :laughing:

worzel
02-10-2007, 01:27 PM
Yo send him over here!
Hungry workers are hard to get lol :wave-hi: :wave-hi: :wave-hi:

ian
02-10-2007, 11:47 PM
Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best.

ian
02-10-2007, 11:55 PM
There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.[ Seneca]
if a quote is taken as picking on someone that is not my intention as i only try to enlighten and educate not cast aspersions or i may just be posting it because i think it sounds good

63impala
03-10-2007, 08:11 AM
Some people spent An intire life time wondering if they have made a differince. MARINES don't have that proplem. :aus-flag:

heggie
03-10-2007, 08:34 AM
We're not getting out of here in one piece, or if we do, it'll be one big flat piece.

Look, I think we've all got something to bring to this conversation, but I think that from now on what you should bring is silence.

I prefer something slightly more melodious. Like the long, drawn-out death rattle of a man suffering from terminal flatulence.


red dwarf

administrator
03-10-2007, 09:54 AM
lolololololol Very well said lolololololo

ian
05-10-2007, 06:34 PM
"Since my last report, this employee has reached rock-bottom and has started to dig."

ian
05-10-2007, 09:32 PM
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves. ~Claude-Adrien Helvétius

ian
05-10-2007, 09:33 PM
Default Re: it's about time ian got a life 5
a test of democracy is freedom of speech.

ian
05-10-2007, 09:38 PM
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. ~Noam Chomsky

ian
05-10-2007, 09:42 PM
"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him." -John Morley

ian
05-10-2007, 09:43 PM
"Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful... Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech. The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race." -Charles Bradlaugh

administrator
06-10-2007, 01:52 PM
The tongue can bring down a nation

:)

cadase
07-10-2007, 01:00 AM
"He knows little who tells his wife all he knows."
--Thomas Fuller

cadase
07-10-2007, 01:11 AM
"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are;
because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star.
I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far;
for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
--Milton Berle

heggie
10-10-2007, 03:23 PM
I'm organised, I'm dedicated to my career, I've always got a pen. Result? Total smeghead despised by everyone except the ship's parrot. And that's only because we haven't got one.

AJ rimmer

heggie
10-10-2007, 03:24 PM
I just wanted to say that, over the years, I have come to regard you as ... people I met.

AJ rimmer

administrator
10-10-2007, 03:32 PM
People would rather believe a lie than the truth :who-knows

heggie
10-10-2007, 03:36 PM
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia.

Dame Edna Everage

heggie
10-10-2007, 03:48 PM
Bush did some things you could never get away with at your job. When Bush started his job, there was a budget surplus. Now there's like a $70 trillion deficit. Now just imagine you worked at the Gap. You're closing out your register and it's $70 trillion short. The average person would get in trouble for that. Then he started a war? Now just imagine you worked at the Gap. You're $70 trillion behind on your register and you start a war with Banana Republic because you know they're selling better tank tops than you. So now you've got employees bleeding all over the khakis. Then you finally take over Banana Republic and you find out they never made tank tops in the first place.

chris rock

lawn order
11-10-2007, 10:24 PM
XXXX XXX XXXX XXX XXXX

mAYOR OF hEROSHIMA

administrator
12-10-2007, 05:36 PM
If YOU dont like some one get to know them BETTER

heggie
17-10-2007, 07:49 AM
My path through life is strewn with cowpats from Satan's own demonic herd.

heggie
17-10-2007, 07:54 AM
Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.

Jack Sparrow

administrator
30-10-2007, 10:08 AM
Love Jack **so honest

lawn order
09-11-2007, 10:41 PM
It is better that ten innocent men be hanged than one guilty man go free. GB2

Hugh Jarss
24-11-2007, 08:41 PM
To do is to be - Voltaire;
To be is to do - Sartre;
Do be do be do - Sinatra

twin_cities_lawncare
01-12-2007, 03:03 PM
A work-ethic based one...passed down to me from my Mum.

Good...better...best.
Never let it rest 'til your "good" is "better", and your "better" "best" :cheer:

lawn order
03-12-2007, 01:19 PM
Your Mum must have been one of their customers
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grasshopper
03-12-2007, 11:47 PM
"hung like a robbers dog"
"better than a poke it the eye with a blunt stick"
"see ya when the mud dries...I'll leave the sprinklers on!"

ian
15-12-2007, 06:11 PM
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.[Thomas A. Edison]

ian
26-12-2007, 11:46 PM
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it.[ Emerson M. Pugh]

ian
19-02-2008, 07:20 PM
Things turn out best for the people who make the best out of the way things turn out.[Art Linkletter]

ian
02-03-2008, 06:13 PM
If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.[Quentin Crisp]

lawn order
03-03-2008, 10:52 PM
I don't like Salt Peter or Vinigar & Brown-Paper,
"Potato Crisp"

lawn order
03-03-2008, 10:55 PM
"I do like Smith's" {Chips Rafferty}

lawn order
03-03-2008, 10:59 PM
I don't like "Barby dolls" but I love Bar-b-cue. {Crinckle Cut}

lawn order
03-03-2008, 11:00 PM
Sorry! - I didn't mean to pick the chip out of you!

lawn order
03-03-2008, 11:10 PM
That was meant to read, "Sorry I did not mean to pick The Chicken Chip-----."
I can eat a chip load of them.

ian
04-03-2008, 10:48 PM
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.[Wilson Mizner]

ian
24-03-2008, 12:08 PM
Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. [Byron J. Langenfeld]

ian
24-03-2008, 12:11 PM
My grandfather once told me that there are two kinds of people: those who work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was less competition there. [Indira Gandhi]

ian
24-03-2008, 12:12 PM
and my son once told me there are three types of people in the world those who can count and those who can't.

ian
24-03-2008, 10:10 PM
No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend until he is unhappy. [Thomas Fuller]

ian
24-03-2008, 10:11 PM
Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.[Timothy Leary]

ian
27-03-2008, 11:11 PM
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.[Albert Einstein]

lawn order
28-03-2008, 12:38 AM
The Lord knoweth not that with which the mower will be slayethed.
But be sureth as the Reaper’s scythe harvests lossed souls
And the gardener slakes his cursed thirst
An exact cause of death goes unstated
Simply noted “Alcohol Related”


Fact of life

Mrs HMS
19-04-2008, 12:00 AM
Lets all work to save the Earth now, before it's too late...it's the only planet with beer!! [Mr HMS]

lawn order
05-05-2008, 06:31 PM
SAID HANRAHAN by John O'Brien

"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
In accents most forlorn,
Outside the church, ere Mass began,
One frosty Sunday morn.


The congregation stood about,
Coat-collars to the ears,
And talked of stock, and crops, and drought,
As it had done for years.


"It's looking crook," said Daniel Croke;
"Bedad, it's cruke, me lad,
For never since the banks went broke
Has seasons been so bad."


"It's dry, all right," said young O'Neil,
With which astute remark
He squatted down upon his heel
And chewed a piece of bark.


And so around the chorus ran
"It's keepin' dry, no doubt."
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."


"The crops are done; ye'll have your work
To save one bag of grain;
From here way out to Back-o'-Bourke
They're singin' out for rain.


"They're singin' out for rain," he said,
"And all the tanks are dry."
The congregation scratched its head,
And gazed around the sky.


"There won't be grass, in any case,
Enough to feed an ass;
There's not a blade on Casey's place
As I came down to Mass."


"If rain don't come this month," said Dan,
And cleared his throat to speak -
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"If rain don't come this week."


A heavy silence seemed to steal
On all at this remark;
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed a piece of bark.


"We want an inch of rain, we do,"
O'Neil observed at last;
But Croke "maintained" we wanted two
To put the danger past.


"If we don't get three inches, man,
Or four to break this drought,
We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."


In God's good time down came the rain;
And all the afternoon
On iron roof and window-pane
It drummed a homely tune.


And through the night it pattered still,
And lightsome, gladsome elves
On dripping spout and window-sill
Kept talking to themselves.


It pelted, pelted all day long,
A-singing at its work,
Till every heart took up the song
Way out to Back-o'-Bourke.


And every creek a banker ran,
And dams filled overtop;
"We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"If this rain doesn't stop."


And stop it did, in God's good time;
And spring came in to fold
A mantle o'er the hills sublime
Of green and pink and gold.


And days went by on dancing feet,
With harvest-hopes immense,
And laughing eyes beheld the wheat
Nid-nodding o'er the fence.


And, oh, the smiles on every face,
As happy lad and lass
Through grass knee-deep on Casey's place
Went riding down to Mass.


While round the church in clothes genteel
Discoursed the men of mark,
And each man squatted on his heel,
And chewed his piece of bark.


"There'll be bush-fires for sure, me man,
There will, without a doubt;
We'll all be rooned," said Hanrahan,
"Before the year is out."

Around the Boree Log and Other Verses, 1921

Born To Mow
17-10-2008, 08:51 PM
"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland"

(George W Bush)

"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland"

(Adolf Hitler)
When announcing the Gestapo to the people

administrator
17-10-2008, 09:36 PM
The tongue can bring down a nation .

Jesus Christ

tree beard
17-10-2008, 10:01 PM
yeah I think I saw that one on an Extra Dry Add!!!!

Mrs HMS
17-10-2008, 10:03 PM
If at first you don't succeed then skydiving is probably not for you.

Anon.

glassngrass
18-10-2008, 05:40 AM
"I shouldn't have put the dark sheets on the bed...they attract the heat"

My beloved Belinda one hot still summer's night - :wave-hi:

Bgs
18-10-2008, 09:22 AM
"If God didn't want us to eat cows, why are they made out of meat?"

- Homer Simpson

administrator
28-10-2008, 04:53 PM
If you dont like someone get to know them better.

David Parkin

;dealers;

lifestyle
28-10-2008, 06:10 PM
"$45 for a one off cut $40 for a regular.... Eric Smith" :laughing: :laughing:

Bluey
28-10-2008, 09:52 PM
"$45 for a one off cut $40 for a regular.... Eric Smith" :laughing: :laughing:

Too much apple juice :i dunno:

lifestyle
28-10-2008, 10:02 PM
Too much apple juice :i dunno:

I dunno, i thought it was a pretty good quote :wave-hi:

Premier
29-10-2008, 10:19 PM
Everyone can relate to this I'm sure :laughing: :laughing:

"The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination"

- Ronald Reagan

Cheers ;)

Premier

Countrymile
30-10-2008, 01:39 AM
"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it starts to rain." - Robert Frost (1874-1963)

Premier
31-10-2008, 10:19 PM
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them"
- Ann Landers

Cheers ;)

Premier

Bluey
01-11-2008, 08:56 AM
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them"
- Ann Landers

Cheers ;)

Premier


Now isn't that true

Premier
04-11-2008, 09:48 PM
Given the activity on the forum over the past few days I thought this might strike a chord with everyone...

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future"
- George Bernard Shaw

Cheers ;)

Premier

administrator
04-11-2008, 10:35 PM
People become so wise they CAN become fools .

JC

lifestyle
04-11-2008, 10:37 PM
A small man has an idea and he is ridiculed. A Well know man has the same idea and he is praised.

- Source Unknown

Premier
08-11-2008, 02:04 PM
"Start with the knowledge that people ONLY buy what they want"

"Decide ONLY to sell what people want"

"ALWAYS ask how can I make money out of this"

- Source - Unknown

Cheers ;)

Premier

Islandhead
09-11-2008, 11:08 PM
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach

Islandhead
09-11-2008, 11:10 PM
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown

Islandhead
09-11-2008, 11:11 PM
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye

Countrymile
09-11-2008, 11:27 PM
“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.” :aus-flag:

administrator
11-11-2008, 12:43 AM
If you come into my home eat my food drink my drink enjoy my surroundings and then talk about me in a dishonouring way guess what ill throw you out .

every decent person :aus-flag:



“A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in
Countrymile i really like that quote .

glassngrass
16-11-2008, 07:20 AM
... i just realise i was stupid... and as Forest Gump says... Stupid is as Stupid Does... Past forum member

mowjoman
16-11-2008, 08:09 AM
Has Eric left us?
I looked on his profile and it states NON MEMBER :i dunno:

glassngrass
16-11-2008, 08:15 AM
Refer Admin's last post on this thread

mowjoman
16-11-2008, 08:53 AM
Indeed.....Every decent person has it right. :russ:

Premier
16-11-2008, 09:43 AM
"A lifestyle is what you pay for; a life is what pays you"

- Thomas Leonard

Cheers ;)

Premier

mowjoman
16-11-2008, 11:34 AM
You have a top lifestyle...but sh*t money. ;)
Charlie Harper.

glassngrass
16-11-2008, 12:49 PM
I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.”
~ Rene Rivkin

glassngrass
16-11-2008, 12:53 PM
You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.
~ Phillip C. McGraw

Premier
16-11-2008, 02:48 PM
Do I detect a theme here :abcfra:

"I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence"

- G. B. Trudeau

Cheers ;)

Premier

glassngrass
16-11-2008, 04:32 PM
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

Islandhead
16-11-2008, 05:01 PM
"Oh, I get a little tired now and then, but knowing my lifestyle, that's only natural." - Harry Caray

glassngrass
18-11-2008, 07:39 AM
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.
~ Brooke Shields (during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti-smoking campaign).

glassngrass
18-11-2008, 07:39 AM
He was a wise man who invented beer.
~ Plato

Bluey
18-11-2008, 07:50 AM
He was a wise man who invented beer.
~ Plato

He was a wiser man who invented refrigeration

"Bluey"

glassngrass
18-11-2008, 08:04 AM
Can't get enough of that wonderful Duff
~ Duff beer advert

mowjoman
18-11-2008, 09:28 PM
He was a wiser man who invented refrigeration

"Bluey"

:laughing: :laughing:

glassngrass
18-11-2008, 09:35 PM
“Deus nobis cerevisiam dedit quia nos felices esse vult,”
best translated as
“Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
~ Abraham Lincoln

glassngrass
18-11-2008, 09:43 PM
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
~ Dave Barry
Perhaps that quote should be in the organic forum? :laughing:

Islandhead
19-11-2008, 08:04 PM
"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies....If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency,
first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around the banks will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on
the continent their fathers conquered." - Thomas Jefferson 1802

administrator
12-12-2008, 07:36 AM
CANNON BALLS!!! DID YOU KNOW THIS ? I DIDN'T

It was necessary to keep a good supply of cannon balls near the cannon on old war ships. But how to prevent them from rolling about the deck was the problem. The best storage method devised was to stack them as a square based pyramid, with one ball on top, resting on four, resting on nine, which rested on sixteen.
Thus, a supply of 30 cannon balls could be stacked in a small area right next to the cannon. There was only one problem -- how to prevent the bottom layer from sliding/rolling from under the others.
The solution was a metal plate with 16 round indentations, called, for reasons unknown, a Monkey. But if this plate were made of iron, the iron balls would quickly rust to it. The solution to the rusting problem was to make them of brass - hence, Brass Monkeys.
Few landlubbers realize that brass contracts much more and much faster than iron when chilled. Consequently, when the temperature dropped too far, the brass indentations would shrink so much that the iron cannon balls would come right off the monkey.
Thus,it was quite literally, cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey. And all this time, you thought that was just a vulgar expression, didn't you? You must send this fabulous bit of historical knowledge to at least a few uneducated friends.

Bluey
12-12-2008, 08:17 AM
Yep sure did. All ex sailors should know this. There are many old nautical sayings that have made their way into our language but not many people know their history.

I bet you didn't know the term skyscraper was a navy term. It was a small sail rigged at the very top of the mast of square riggers in calm weather to get the most wind. Or that the term Chokas really means chock a block which is when the two pulleys on a block and tackle meet and the is no more lift to the system.

There are stacks more like letting the cat out of the bag, bite the bullet, stuck in the mud and the list goes on.

If sailors really stuffed up the would get to dance with the captains daughter.

Bluey
12-12-2008, 08:32 AM
While we are on things navy you all know the term Matelot don't you. This term is often used to describe a sailor but what is a Matelot? Well this sums it up.

A Matelot is not born, he is made out of leftovers! God built the world and the animals and then recycled the gash to create this dastardly weapon.

He took the leftover roar of the lion, the howl of the hyena, the clumsiness of the ox, the stubborness of the mule, the slyness of the fox, the wildness of the bull and the pride of a peacock - then added the filthy evil mind of the devil to satisfy his wierd sense of humour.

A Matelot evolved into a crude combination of John Dillinger, Errol Flynn, Beau Brummel and Valentino - a swashbuckling - beer-swilling - lovemaking - LIAR!

A Matelot likes girls, rum, beer, fights, uckers, runs ashore, pubs, jokes, long leave, his mates and his ticket. He hates officers, rounds, divisions, saluting middies, naval police, painting the side, jaunties, navy scran, his turn in the barrel and signing on!

A Matelot comes in four colours; white, off white, dirty and filthy - all looking alike under a tan and a uniform.

He is brave drinking beer, abusive playing crib, brutal defending his pride and passionate making love.

He can start a brawl, create a disaster, offend the law, desert his ship, make you lose your money, your temper and your mind!

He can take your sister, your mother, your aunt, and when he is caught get his captain to vouch for his integrity.

A matelot is loved by all mothers, sisters, aunts and nieces; hated by all fathers, brothers, uncles and nephews.

He has a girl in every port and a port in every girl. He breaks more hearts, causes more fights and begets more bastards than any other man, yet when he is off to sea he is missed more than any other!

A matelot is a mean, hard drinking, fast running, mealy mouthed son-of-a-*****, but when you are in strife he is a strong shoulder to lean on, a pillar of wisdom, and a defender of the faith and cause. He fights for his mate, and dies for his country, without question or hesitation!

AdrianH
15-12-2008, 09:59 PM
"PTE 'So and So' repeatedly sets low standards for himself and fails to achieve them."
WO2 J Watene RAInf.

Countrymile
25-03-2009, 10:45 PM
I heard a good one the other day...

"When you are in business you have to bite off more than you can chew and then chew like mad" ;)

ian
04-08-2009, 12:53 AM
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. [Fritz Perls]

geoff
04-08-2009, 04:37 PM
I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine. [Fritz Perls]
you love posting lol

ian
04-08-2009, 05:56 PM
Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.[ Doug Larson]

63impala
08-09-2011, 07:44 PM
"They got nothing better to so-it's all eyes on "me" or "us" aye.... U know who people of the Repuplic of China"........William Shapspear..........

Bluey
08-09-2011, 08:14 PM
Someone grab his leg before he floats away

glassngrass
07-11-2011, 07:39 PM
25 great quotations
1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams

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

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

4. 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

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

6. 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

7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -- James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)

8. 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

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

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

11. 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)

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

13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P.J. O'Rourke

14. In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to give to the other. -- Voltaire (1764)

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

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

17. Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it. -- Anonymous

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

19. 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

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

21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer, English Philosopher (1820-1903)

22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class...save Congress. -- Mark Twain

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

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

25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop

Five best sentences
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealth out of prosperity.

2. What one person receives without working for ... another person must work for without receiving.

3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.

4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.

5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!

Bluey
07-11-2011, 08:15 PM
I like the last one. So true

glassngrass
17-11-2011, 07:04 AM
One in three women are as crazy as the other two...

fairdinkum
17-11-2011, 07:56 AM
"Do or do not. There is no try!"...YODA

Mick
17-11-2011, 08:17 AM
My problems are worse than yours, because there mine!.... Buffy

I may be wrong, but I wont be wrong always... Ten Years After

courty
17-11-2011, 11:29 AM
I'm not often right but I'm wrong again- my old man

Bluey
17-11-2011, 03:42 PM
"Shoot straight you bastards. Don't make a mess of it. " Harry "Breaker" Morant

fairdinkum
17-11-2011, 04:53 PM
My problems are worse than yours, because there mine!.... Buffy

I may be wrong, but I wont be wrong always... Ten Years After "I'm tired of being everybody's butt monkey" ....Xander (from the same show)

AJD Mowing
17-11-2011, 08:08 PM
A man who never made a mistake never made anything..

AJD Mowing
17-11-2011, 08:11 PM
Confucius say girl who fly upside down in plane have crack up..

Mick
17-11-2011, 08:38 PM
"I'm tired of being everybody's butt monkey" ....Xander (from the same show)
I loved that show!

Go hard or go home! (unknown)

Here, hold me beer! (famous last words)

Its better to burn out than to fade away! NY

Is it in yet? (not saying)