All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. [Arthur Schopenhauer]
Even the smallest things ought to be directed toward a goal. [Marcus Aurelius]
When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. [John Muir]
I got nothin’ against mankind. It’s people I can’t stand. [Archie Bunker]
Carry On: Verbal order which means, resume doing nothing. [Murphy’s Laws of Combat, Marion F. Sturkey]
Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to lying! [Falstaff, in Shakespeare’s Henry IV]
I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. [Clarence Darrow]
If every Jewish and anti-Nazi family in Germany had owned a Mauser rifle and twenty rounds of ammunition and the will to use it, Adolf Hitler would be a little-known footnote to the history of the Weimar Republic. [Aaron Zelman]
Remember that the people that hid Anne Frank were breaking the law and the people that took her to the camps were enforcing it. [Your conscience]
The weak grow strong by effrontery. The strong grow weak through inhibition. [Henry Kissinger]
The person who says he knows what he thinks but cannot express it usually does not know what he thinks. [Mortimer Adler]
Those whom God would destroy, He first makes mad. [Sophocles’ Antigone]
The Second Amendment makes more women equal than the entire feminist movement. [unknown]
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. [Aristotle]
If at first you dont succeed, call in an air strike. [Unknown]
Turns out the guy who made a boatload of money investing in Apple was guilty of in cider trading. [Noone Will Claimit]
I am a soldier. I fight where I am told and I win where I fight. [George S. Patton, Jr.]
It is well that was is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. [Robert E. Lee]
I don’t make jokes… I just watch the government and report the facts. [Will Rogers]
The government is like a baby’s alimentary canal: a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. [Ronald Reagan]
A lion uses all its might in attacking a rabbit. [Chinese proverb]
The cause doesn’t have to be righteous and battle doesn’t have to be winnable; but over and over again throughout history, men have chosen to die in battle with their friends rather than to flee on their own and survive. [Sebastiab Junger, author]
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. [Ezra Pound]
America is a great playpen of civilization filled with toddler adults who have never experienced the violent brutality of life outside the safe confines of our political borders. [George Strong]