Great Quotes .... Or Just Quotes you like.

[Hog On Ice]

 

[littleharbor2]

We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold.

HST

 

[D71]

"Trust the Science"
Climate Change and Covid

Leftist

 

[Rednecktek]

Don't have kids and the whole public/private school argument is solved!

I say that as a victim of public schools.

 

[RussNM]

Good fences make good neighbors.
~Robert Frost~

 

[Chispas]

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

and

Schools train people to be ignorant, with style. They give you the equipment that you need to be a functional ignoramus. American schools* do not equip you to deal with things like logic; they don't give you the criteria by which to judge between good and bad in any medium or format; and they prepare you to be a usable victim for military-industrial complex that needs manpower.

Frank Zappa.

 

[RussNM]

Dont cast your pearls before swine.
Matthew 7:6
Some of these dingalings here just aint worth your time.

 

[aenyc]

Governments don't want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation

 

[aenyc]

You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. They own everything. They own all the important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

george carlin? sounds like him.

 

[aenyc]

george carlin? sounds like him.

The first quote is often attributed to Rockefeller

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7234181724299873582

 

[RussNM]

Aim small - miss small...
~some guy with common sense~

 

[Checkthisout]

"HAWK TUAH"

~Me in the bosses office gunning for a raise in my younger years~

 

[DPC]

You cant get cheese from a cow before it hatches....

And all I know, is my gut says maybe....

( both me )

I also invented and trade marked the term " Cocksuckery " to describe the business of backroom deals and selfish underhanded behaviour...

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

I also invented and trade marked the term " Cocksuckery " to describe the business of backroom deals and selfish underhanded behaviour...

That’s been around for decades… we used it in the 80’s in the Marine Corps…generally when describing the navy and air force

 

[TommySr]

 

[Primal1]

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

H. L. Mencken

 

[DPC]

Trying to remember the last thing I spit in and what ever I may have hoisted.

drawing a blank....

 

[Primal1]

Trying to remember the last thing I spit in and what ever I may have hoisted.

drawing a blank....

Exactly, and we all see where that has gotten us.

 

[Checkthisout]

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

H. L. Mencken

You ok?

 

[Primal1]

You ok?

Yep, totally normal.

 

[Primal1]

Another favorite from Mencken that's sums up where we're at.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

You ok?

I see nothing wrong with considering the future...

 

[Daddy Tanuki]

Another favorite from Mencken that's sums up where we're at.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
H. L. Mencken

H.L. Mencken also despised the middle class though... called them booboisie's and rubes. also was a staunch dem... so it goes to show that at one time the dems were not totally incompetent anyway.

 

[DPC]

I had to look him up.

Henry Louis Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English.

Is he famous?
Honestly I don't think I ever came across any cultural references that have seeped out of the USA.