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A couple of my favorites from former Governor of Louisiana Edwin Edwards...

When asked if he thought he would win the next election, Governor Edwards replied: "I could not lose unless I was caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy."

"It was illegal for them to give, but not for me to receive," when asked about receiving illegal campaign contributions.

 

"Let go, or be dragged." Zen proverb.

 

“Don't cry because it's over, be happy because it happened.”

— Dr. Suess

 

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, you can pick his pocket. Hell, give them somebody to look down on, and they'll empty their pockets for you."

— President Lyndon Johnson

 

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"

— Emma Lazarus (Statue of Liberty poem)

 

"People sometimes ask if I have tried to convince black 'leaders' to take a different view on racial issues. Of course not. I wouldn't spend my time trying to persuade the mafia to give up crime. Why should I spend time trying to convince race hustlers to give up victimhood? It's their bread and butter."

— Thomas Sowell

 

"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."

— Thomas Sowell

 

Ernest Hemingway was sitting in a bar one afternoon with friends.

One of them said to Ernest, "Can you write a story with meaning using only six words?"

Ernest replied, let me think about it. Two days later, he wrote this:

For Sale
Baby Shoes
Never Worn

 

“History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”

— Mark Twain

 

One of my favourite writers. I have a book by him dated 1935.

 

"I'll believe that when me shit turns purple and tastes like rainbow sherbet."

— Random internet dude, talking about something important.


"I believe she's very resourceful. But she burns facts and then she uses that ash to create the perfect smokey eye."

— Michelle Wolf


“What a maroon”

— B. Bunny, Esq.


"If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself."

— Joseph Goebbels


“Maybe you do not care much about the future of the Republican Party. You should. Conservatives will always be with us. If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will reject democracy.”

— David Frum


"If your constitutional rights have been violated, we will defend you. If you have illegal aliens invading your home, we will deport you."

— Donald Trump


If you live long enough, you will make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person.

— Bill Clinton


Everything is perfect in the universe even your desire to improve it.

— Wayne Dyer


Life is not measured by the number of breaths that we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

— Maya Angelou


What a wonderful life I've had! I only wish I'd realized it sooner.

— Sidonie Gabriel Colette


A fool dreams of wealth; a wise man of happiness.

— Turkish proverb


Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstance.

— Unknown


You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.

— Ethel Barrymore


The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.

— Theodore Roosevelt


We live, we die, but first we suffer.

— Jammer

 

Be careful who you let on the ship. They may sink it because you wouldn't let them be the captain.

— Captain James T. Moore

 

So fxcking true!

Hi brother, I hope you're doing fine.

All good on my end.

 

Teddy Roosevelt is probably my favorite US president of all time.

 

The town I grew up in was named after Teddy.

 

I had some nice quiet days until Mrs. Elmer, and I went to a play in which our 7-year-old granddaughter was in. The play was Oliver Twist. Sitting in the 3rd row under the speakers, the music was very loud; this morning, my ears had gone mad with tinnitus screaming. I didn't realize it was going to be like that. Of course I had no hearing protection with me.

 

Sorry buddy.

We don't let up, but our ears do.

Having known you for years now, you have a steady track record of recovering from spikes, and I am sure it will settle.

Go for some long hikes, breathe in the Irish air, and have a wee nip or two of Jameson.

I hope you feel better soon,
DL

 

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

 

I thought I would share these funny quotes from Steven Wright. They made me chuckle a lot.

1- I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.
2 - Borrow money from pessimists -- they don't expect it back.
3 - Half the people you know are below average.
4 - 99% of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
5 - 82.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
6 - A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
7 - A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
8 - If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain.
9 - All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand.
10 - The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
11 - I almost had a psychic girlfriend, ... But she left me before we met.
12 - OK, so what's the speed of dark?
13 - How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink?
14 - If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
15 - Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
16 - When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
17 - Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.
18 - Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now.
19 - I intend to live forever ... So far, so good.
20 - If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
21 - Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
22 - What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
23 - My mechanic told me, "I couldn't repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder."
24 - Why do psychics have to ask you for your name.
25 - If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
26 - A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
27 - Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
28 - The hardness of the butter is proportional to the softness of the bread.
29 - To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
30 - The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.
31 - The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
32 - The colder the x-ray table, the more of your body is required to be on it.
33 - Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film.
34 - If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

I hope that these quotes brightened your day as well as they did mine.

 

With November 5 in mind:

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
—H. L. Mencken

 

You can judge a man by his knife.
He is either sharp
or dull.

— Mark Twain

 

One of the best things I've heard:

No, you cannot borrow my guns, and no, you cannot borrow my chainsaw.

But you can borrow my WIFE.

 

It's not the men with guns that cause evil.
It's the men behind desks in fancy suits.