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Some people are like Slinkies...

Not really good for anything,

But they still bring a smile to your face

When you push them down the stairs.

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"I want to know what kind of pickups Vince Gill uses in his Tele, because if I had those, as good of a player as I am, I'm sure I could make it sound like that.
Only badly."

Oh! That's mean!

My favorite- "I care not for religion whose man's dog or cat isn't the better for it!" -Honest Abe Lincoln

Another when "Lady" Astor stated to a very great American, Winston Churchill:

    "Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."

    Winston's reply: "Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

I believe it was Mark Twain who related the following conversation he had with a woman at a social event (to paraphrase):

"You smell, sir!"

"Pardon me, madam, but you smell. I stink!"

Best,

Michael

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Another one of Churchills

He was invited to a play by George Bernard Shaw, with a note that read.

"Winston you are invited to the opening night of my new play, bring a friend if you have one"

Churchill sent back the following.

"Can't make the first night, will come the second night if you have one"

One of my favourites and I don't know who said it is

Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt

I think it may have been Solomon.

[QUOTE=Don Williams] Some people are like Slinkies...

Not really good for anything,

But they still bring a smile to your face

When you push them down the stairs.
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We think alike, I had it on my office door as a "Thought for the Weak".

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Don Atwood
Arlington, VA

Another one from Churchill. Once again a paraphrase, cuz I don't have the quote handy.

It seems that Churchill's secretary or adminstrative assistant or whatever had a habit of correcting his grammar and sending back his letters or other correspondence for rewriting. She especially disliked ending sentences with a preposition. So, in response he wrote back to her "This is more than I can up with put."

Best,

Michael

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Here's a few I like.

'The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions, have only wasted my time.'

                                     -GBS

'An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind'

                                     -Mahatma Gandhi

'Life doesn't cease to be funny when people die any more that it ceases to be serious when people laugh.'

                                     -GBS

'If we don't believe in freedom of expressions for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all'

                                     -Noam Chompsky

'Democracy is a devise that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.'

                                     -GBS

And one of my all-time favorites...

'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul'

                                     -GBS

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I'd like to be able to prove, just for once, that money wouldn't make me happy...

I hate to tell you guys, but Churchill was British, not American.

Here's a good one from him

Bessie Braddock: Sir, you are drunk.

Churchill: And you, madam, are ugly. But in the morning I shall be sober.

And another

Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for five million pounds?
Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course...
Churchill: Would you sleep with me for five pounds?
Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am?!
Churchill: Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.

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"There's really no wrong way, as long as the results are what's desired." Charles Fox

"We have to constantly remind ourselves what we're doing....No Luthier is putting a man on the moon!" Harry Fleishman

"Generosity is always different in the eye of the person who didn't receive anything, but who wanted some." Waddy Thomson

[QUOTE=Rod True]I hate to tell you guys, but Churchill was British, not American. [/QUOTE]

The better part of him was American! His mother!

Another great American-
"I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face."
I said, "You'll be sorry."
He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?"
I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
                -Emo PhilipsBilly T38875.0238541667

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

Hey did you's know the US navy named a ship after Churchill.
Churchill

When my Dad turned 65 he said he felt half dead and then added: Does that mean i'm gonna live 'till 130?

He also often sawarns not to worry about life, that no one gets out of it alive!

[QUOTE]Hey did you's know the US navy named a ship after Churchill.[/QUOTE]

Cool, I always liked Winny! He was a sharp guy!

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Billy Dean Thomas
Covina, CA

"Multi famam, conscientiam, pauci verentur."
(Many fear their reputation, few their conscience)

[quote]'A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always count on the support of Paul'

                                       -GBS [/quote]

Who is GBS?    George Bush Senior?

I assume it's George Bernard Shaw.

Ron

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Ron Wisdom

Somewhere in the middle of Arkansas......

[QUOTE=Michael McBroom] She especially disliked ending sentences with a preposition. So, in response he wrote back to her "This is more than I can up with put."

Best,

Michael
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I've heard his response was, "That is one rule up with which I will not put!"

[QUOTE=Billy T]Another great American-
"I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face."
I said, "You'll be sorry."
He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?"
I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
                  -Emo Philips[/QUOTE]
My favorite Emo line: "Yeah, I'm a great lover......I bet!"

"I didn't know how many of em' it would take to kick my ***, but I knew how many they were gonna to use...."

"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability..."

                Ron White

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John Watkins
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My favorite Emo Phillips (American offbeat comedian) line:

I'll never forget the last words my Grandfather told me... "A Truck!!"

By the way, I had a friend that told me that when his grandmother turned 60 that the doctor recommended that she walk 5 miles a day... Now they dont know where she is!!

Shawn wrote:

I'll never forget the last words my Grandfather told me... "A Truck!!"

[QUOTE=Alain Desforges]

'An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind'

                                              -Mahatma   Gandhi
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You know what is interesting about this ... the eye for an eye thing is not about vengance, it is about mercy. It is originally meant as a limit to the amount of "justice" you can exact for harm done to you.

Another interesting one is the term "the 3rd degree" it refers to 3 degrees of torture used in the dark ages, it used to be that if you were accused of a crime they would torture you until you confessed or died, and the 3rd degree was "progress" in that if you survived the 3 degrees of torture without confessing you must be innocent.


Just thought I would share....    Brock Poling38875.8455208333

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Columbus, Ohio
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