George Elliot An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.

Winston Churchill A lie gets half way around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Abraham Lincoln He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then, when sentence was about to be pronounced pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.

Anon A liberal is a person who has both feet firmly planted in the air.

Will Rogers What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Clarence Darrow When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

Theordore Roosevelt --A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steel the whole railroad."

Jay Ward Bullwinkle: You just leave that to my pal. He's the brains of the outfit. General: What does that make YOU? Bullwinkle: What else? An executive...

William Penn Those who will not be governed by God, will be ruled by tyrants

Mother Theresa Abortion is the greatest destroyer of peace because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you, and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

Frank Biance A bible falling apart can only belong to a person who isn't.

G. K. Chesterton If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments."

Milton Friedman If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

Franklin Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Thomas Edison Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Anon Arguing with a stubborn person is much like mud wrestling with a pig. Pretty soon you realize the pig likes it."

Einstein Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Samuel Clemens When I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learnt in seven years.

Clarence Darrow The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

Abraham Lincoln Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."

Soren Aabye Kierkegaard People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

Spurgeon When you see a man with a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend upon it that he keeps a very small stock of it within.

Voltaire Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.

Thoreau I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Anon Sometimes silence is not golden--just yellow

 

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