Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" while searching for a large rock-----attributed to Will Rogers It is not easy knowing you owe your very existence to other peoples' stupidity When it is your outfit being ambushed it does not seem like a low intensity conflict Reform in haste, repent at leisure
If you ever see 10 troubles coming down the road you can be sure nine of them will run into the ditch before reaching you------Cal Coolidge Most catastrophes start well
the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits----Einstein The Texas legislature is where good intentions run out of gas human blunder usually does more to shape history than evil---AJP Taylor
The Texas Legislature meets every two years for 140 days. We'd all be better off it were the other way around. -- Cactus Pryor
wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now------------Anthony Burgess
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. Advice on handling ambiguous traffic yield situations: "You win or I win is fine. We just don't want a tie."
This post was made just before the new platform was added. Post as normal after it if you wish. FridayNiteLites (1000+ posts) 02/11/15 01:14 PM Re: aphorisms Things which hurt, instruct. Ben Franklin
when I see ten problems coming down the road I know that nine will go into the ditch before reaching me
It's one I made up myself, advising urbane friends on dealing with small town lawyers and businessmen. "Just cause he's talkin' slow doesn't mean he's thinkin' slow."
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” ~Benjamin Franklin
Messier than a small town divorce She spent money like a whaler in port love is an agreement between two people to overestimate each other Spontaneity is all the more powerful when it is the result of long and careful work-Francois Truffaut He learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones--AJP Taylor Nothing is inevitable until it happens
a toothpick is an edited christmas tree the braver the bird, the fatter the cat history is a confused consensus of unreliable eyewitness accounts---fernando pessoa
Journalists cannot grasp that what is interesting is not necessarily important; most cannot even grasp that what is sensational is not necessarily interesting.
the press is the weak slat under the bed of democracy---AJ Liebling I had a shiddy job before this one and I can always get another one reality is that which, when you quit believing in it, doesn't go away--Phillip Dick You have to bloom where you are planted my favorite book review: "a vain man might have taken care to write a better book than this" Badgers do no fight fair, which is why we have dachsunds. I believe in cause and effect but I don't know which is which. I guess I don't have much choice but to believe in free will.
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. - Mark Twain
Never get less than 12 hours sleep Never play cards with a guy whose got the same first name as a city Never go near a lady who's got a tattoo of a dagger on her body Now you stick with that, everything else is cream cheese. - Coach Bobby Finstock (Teen Wolf)
everything is simple when you don't know a f*****g thing about it -----kevin d williamson's First Law