Quotes to ponder...

[TexasJeff]

"The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself."

~ Oscar Wilde

[SailorSam]

"One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool." George Orwell

[MSHappyCampers]

The less you respond to rude, critical, argumentative people the happier your life will be!

[ratherberv]

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
― Mae West

[Gordon Dewald]

The quote: "If you spend more money than you make you will go into debt."
The response: "You don't understand, you never had kids".

[TexasJeff]

“All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.”

– Erma Bombeck

[SailorSam]

"The idea that any kind of free society can be constructed in which people will never be offended or insulted, or in which they have the right to call on the law to defend them against being offended or insulted, is absurd."


"The moment you say that an idea system is sacred, whether it's a religious belief system or a secular ideology, the moment you declare a set of ideas to be immune from criticism, satire, derision, or contempt, freedom of thought becomes impossible." ~Salman Rushdie

[RVStitchy]

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

- Desmond Tutu

[TexasJeff]

"An Oak Hill community couple discovered a thief in their home Saturday after a man told a joke and heard a laugh upstairs."

~ Excerpt from an actual Police Report

[TexasJeff]

"Police responded to a report of two dogs running loose and attacking ducks at about 11:20AM Sunday. The officer cited a resident for the loose dogs. The duck refused medical treatment and left the area, according to police records."

~ Article (Medford Tribune): Dog attack - Lower Duck Pond, Lithia Park, Ashland.

[TexasJeff]

'A little learning is a dangerous thing.'

~ Alexander Pope

Happy birthday to our dearly departed President: Thomas Jefferson

[TexasJeff]

"Character is much easier kept than recovered."

~ Thomas Paine

[SailorSam]

"Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them." ~Thomas Jefferson


"How much truth is contained in something can be best determined by making it thoroughly laughable and then watching to see how much joking around it can take. For truth is a matter that can stand mockery, that is freshened by any ironic gesture directed at it. Whatever cannot stand satire is false." ~Peter Sloterdijk


Wherever there is objective truth, there is satire." ~Wyndham Lewis

[MSHappyCampers]

When something bad happens to you, you have three choices.

You can let it define you, let it destroy you, or let it strengthen you!

Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality!

Les Brown