Quotes

Title Body Author Subject
Quote 6 "Beware of Con Artists: the best lies are hidden between two truths." Unknown Advice
Quote 43 "Make your own luck. Put on a show. If you fall, let them remember how you turned it into a dive." Unknown Advice
Quote 42 "You cannot plan the future. Only presumptuous fools plan. The wise man steers." Unknown Advice
Quote 24

Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders & says... "Oh shit....she's awake!!"

Unknown Advice
Quote 202 "Worrying only gets you hurt twice." Unknown Advice
Quote 186

"...the truth is like poetry and most people hate poetry."

Unknown Advice
Quote 15

"Neither give cherries to a pig nor advice to a fool."

Unknown Advice
Quote 12

"Mankind is the missing link between the ape and human being."

Unknown Advice
Quote 117

"Trouble is, with trouble, it starts out as fun"

Unknown Advice
Quote 115

"The trouble with drinkin' is it ain't no trouble at all."

Unknown Advice
Quote 112

"Friends are false; enemies are real."

                --Old Mexican Saying

Unknown Advice
Quote 108

"Keep a good sharp edge on your knife, son. Keep a good sharp edge on your knife. A good sharp edge is a man's best edge against the unexpected vagaries of life."

Unknown Advice
Quote 106

"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket."

Unknown Advice
Quote 14

"Excellence isn't a virtue, it's a habit."

Unknown Advice
Quote 210

"The trend of looking back to the '60s has gotten us nowhere. You've got generations now that don't have anything of their own. They seem to long for identity. Teens are so consumed with the '60s, peace signs and psychedelia. Their own generation is full of young Republicans, and rock 'n' roll is guys in rubber pants and hair spray."

                --(1990)

Tom Petty Culture
Quote 94

"When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing  because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.”

Tim Freeman Justice, America, Politics
Quote 2

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."

      --US patriot & political philosopher

Thomas Paine Intelligence
Quote 88

“…I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny known to the mind of man."

Thomas Jefferson Politics
Quote 86 "When the Government fears the people, there is liberty.  When the people fear the Government, there is tyranny.” Thomas Jefferson Politics
Quote 90

"The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes."

Thomas Jefferson Justice
Quote 145 "When the people fear the ‘government,' that is tyranny. When the ‘government' fears the people, that is liberty." Thomas Jefferson Democracy, Politics, America
Quote 144 “To secure our rights is the reason we resort to government at all.” Thomas Jefferson Democracy, Politics, America
Quote 109

"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed."

Thomas Jefferson Democracy, Justice, Power
Quote 107

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...  

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?

And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

Thomas Jefferson Democracy, Justice
Quote 4

“I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

                  --Letter to George Logan. November 12, 1816

Thomas Jefferson Capitalism