Too much of a good thing is wonderful -Mae West

“We've got to get out of the way and let these malcontent ne'er-do-wells define what American greatness is.”

--Rush Limbaugh

I always liked this one

Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.
William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)

Death smiles at us all, the onlything a man can do is smile back

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work. - Unknown

Reality is not external. Reality exist in the human mind, and nowhere else. -- George Orwell / Nineteen Eighty Four (1948)

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding
success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. - George Allen

'We got our eyes on the firmament
Hands on the armaments
Heads full of arguments
And words for our monuments'

from 'Progess' by Midnight Oil.

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. -- TV: Dr. Who / The Doctor

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

It's hard to soar like an eagle when you're surrounded by turkeys...

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over. -- Ambrose Bierce

Your manuscript is good, as well as original,
but, the part that is good is not original,
and the part that is original is not good.

Samuel Johnson 1777

Some people read like vacuum cleaners: out of everything they get dirt.

Johan Daisne 1961

Sane people always leave tracks when they run away. -- TV: Outer Limits (Corpus Earthling)

'Aquila non capit muscas'

Eagles do not thrive on flies

Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face. . . that their policy of accommodation is appeasement, and it gives no choice between peace and war, only between fight or surrender. If we continue to accommodate, continue to back and retreat, eventually we have to face the final demand - the ultimatum. And what then?

--Ronald Reagan

Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious. -- George Orwell / Nineteen Eighty Four (1948)

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
-- H. L. Mencken

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
-- John Stuart Mill

Being slavish to one ideology is the sign of a narrow mind. Pick and choose your beliefs carefully. There are good points in most of them.

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience--well, that comes from poor judgement.

I thought I could see the end of the tunnel, but it was just some bastard with a torch, bringing me more work. - David Brent

The less said, the better.

No news is good news.