Whew… got the short story finished, but it’s harder than hell to write when you’re on strong pain meds…just sayin…

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. [Mark Twain]

Eleven teens die each day because of texting while driving. Maybe it’s time to raise the age of Smart Phone ownership to 21. [unknown]

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the establishment authorities are wrong.  Voltaire]

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But the I repeat myself. [Mark Twain]

Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are right now, and we will never be here again.  [Homer, The Iliad]

After a 25-cent breakfast of canned bacon and powdered eggs in a tar-paper shack on the field at Dahar, . . . [Omar Bradley, Feb 1943]

In my youth I was often called lazy.  In rather successful adulthood I was called efficient.  Same behavior, different times.  [Bob Fiegel]

Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state. [Joseph Sobran]

I’m not afraid of the media. Why should anyone listen to the media? Who are these people? What makes them experts? What have they accomplished?  [Dana White]

There’s one thing worse than change and that’s the status quo.  [John Le Carre]

The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens… Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere. [Leo Tolstoy]

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.  [Mark Twain]

To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.  [Teddy Roosevelt]

You have vanishingly little political influence and every thought you spend on politics will probably come to nothing. Consider building things instead, or at least going for a walk. [Conor Barnes]

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer. [Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Stoic philosopher, 4 B.C. – A.D. 65]

If gun control laws actually worked, Chicago would be Mayberry, USA. [unknown]

If enough data is collected, a Board of Inquiry can prove anything. [Unknown]

All middle-class citizens of education have a common belief that the tendencies towards centralization and paternalism must be halted and reversed.  [Dwight Eisenhower July 1949]

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. [Franklin Delano Rosevelt]

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]

There are two ways to go to the gas chamber: free or not free. [Viktor Frankl]

The fatal fallacy of gun control laws in general is the assumption that such laws actually control guns. Criminals who disobey other laws are not likely to be stopped by gun-control laws. What such laws actually do is increase the number of disarmed and defenseless victims. [Thomas Sowell]

When immigration is done by single individuals, it is immigration. When done by groups, it is invasion.” – Nassim Taleb

But test and prove all things until you can recognize what is good; to that hold fast.  [1 Thessalonians 5:21]

I would sooner be governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand members of the faculty of Harvard. [William F. Buckley Jr]

In politics, never assume that because something is insane, it will not be done.  [Thomas Sowell]

If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.  [Carl Jung]