aphorisms

[huisache]

Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggie" while searching for a large rock-----attributed to Will Rogers


It is not easy knowing you owe your very existence to other peoples' stupidity

When it is your outfit being ambushed it does not seem like a low intensity conflict

Reform in haste, repent at leisure

 

[Dionysus]

Sincerity is key. Once you learn to fake that you’ve got it made.

 

[huisache]

If you ever see 10 troubles coming down the road you can be sure nine of them will run into the ditch before reaching you------Cal Coolidge

Most catastrophes start well

 

[Dionysus]

Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past.

 

[huisache]

the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits----Einstein

The Texas legislature is where good intentions run out of gas

human blunder usually does more to shape history than evil---AJP Taylor

 

[Texanne]

The Texas Legislature meets every two years for 140 days. We'd all be better off it were the other way around. -- Cactus Pryor

 

[huisache]

wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now------------Anthony Burgess

 

[Crockett]

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Advice on handling ambiguous traffic yield situations: "You win or I win is fine. We just don't want a tie."

 

[Bevo1970]

This post was made just before the new platform was added. Post as normal after it if you wish.

FridayNiteLites
(1000+ posts)
02/11/15 01:14 PM
Re: aphorisms

Things which hurt, instruct.

Ben Franklin

 

[huisache]

when I see ten problems coming down the road I know that nine will go into the ditch before reaching me

 

[Crockett]

It's one I made up myself, advising urbane friends on dealing with small town lawyers and businessmen. "Just cause he's talkin' slow doesn't mean he's thinkin' slow."

 

[NJlonghorn]

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.”

~Benjamin Franklin

 

[huisache]

Messier than a small town divorce

She spent money like a whaler in port

love is an agreement between two people to overestimate each other

Spontaneity is all the more powerful when it is the result of long and careful work-Francois Truffaut

He learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones--AJP Taylor

Nothing is inevitable until it happens

 

[Driver 8]

Be careful about criticizing your spouse's choices. You're one of them.

 

[huisache]

a toothpick is an edited christmas tree

the braver the bird, the fatter the cat

history is a confused consensus of unreliable eyewitness accounts---fernando pessoa

 

[huisache]

it is drier than the front porch in hell

a little bribery can cut a lot of red tape

 

[huisache]

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there

—Lewis Carroll

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

Never take investment advice from someone who has to work for a living.

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

Journalists cannot grasp that what is interesting is not necessarily important; most cannot even grasp that what is sensational is not necessarily interesting.

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

In a conflict, the middle ground is the least likely to be correct.

 

[Driver 8]

Queue is pronounced "Q" followed by four letters that are silently waiting their turn

 

[huisache]

the press is the weak slat under the bed of democracy---AJ Liebling

I had a shiddy job before this one and I can always get another one

reality is that which, when you quit believing in it, doesn't go away--Phillip Dick

You have to bloom where you are planted

my favorite book review: "a vain man might have taken care to write a better book than this"

Badgers do no fight fair, which is why we have dachsunds.

I believe in cause and effect but I don't know which is which.

I guess I don't have much choice but to believe in free will.

 

[Phil Elliott]

If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. - Mark Twain

 

[Phil Elliott]

• Never get less than 12 hours sleep
• Never play cards with a guy whose got the same first name as a city
• Never go near a lady who's got a tattoo of a dagger on her body

Now you stick with that, everything else is cream cheese.

- Coach Bobby Finstock (Teen Wolf)

 

[HornHuskerDad]

If we keep going the way we're going, we'll wind up where we're headed.

 

[Driver 8]

Whoever created autocorrect should burn in hello

 

[chango]

Whoever created autocorrect should burn in hello

You're ducking right
.

 

[Vol Horn 4 Life]

If we keep going the way we're going, we'll wind up where we're headed.

Yeah, send this one to Shaka Smart!

 

[huisache]

everything is simple when you don't know a f*****g thing about it

-----kevin d williamson's First Law

 

[BevoJoe]

The pen is mightier than the sword.

Unless your fencing...