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These are some of my favorite quotes. Many come from my reading. I recently discovered the Arcamax history and quote page. You can subscribe as well. Think you have one I would like? Email me then! Claude Monet: "Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love."

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Favorite composer: Debussy; Favorite artist: Monet; Favorite old author: Charles Dickens

Friday, July 18, 2008

Cheerfulness

Cheerfulness removes the rust from the
mind, lubricates our inward machinery,
and enables us to do our work with fewer
creaks and groans.

If people were universally cheerful, probably
there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a
tenth part of the wickedness there is.

Cheerfulness, too, promotes health and
immortality. Cheerful people live longest
here on earth, afterward in our hearts.

~Anonymous~

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Changes

Change does not come until someone gets mad.

Those trying to bring change will make mad those
who do not want change.

~Myles Monroe~

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

The End of Your Rope

The end of your rope is a very holy place.
~Author Unknown~

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Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

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Thursday, March 06, 2008

Political Pundits

Suppose you were an idiot.
And suppose you were a member

of Congress....
But then I repeat myself.
-Mark Twain


I contend that for a nation to try to tax
itself into prosperity is like a
man standing in a bucket and trying
to lift himself up by the handle.
-Winston Churchill


Democracy must be something more
than two wolves and a sheep voting on what
to have for dinner.
-James Bovard, Civil Libertarian (1994)


A government which robs Peter to pay
Paul can always depend on the support
of Paul.
-George Bernard Shaw


Foreign aid might be defined as a
transfer of money from poor people in rich
countries to rich people in poor countries.
-Douglas Casey, Classmate of
Bill Clinton at Georgetown University


Giving money and power to government
is like giving whiskey and car keys to
teenage boys.
-P.J. O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian


A liberal is someone who feels a great
debt to his fellow man, which debt he
proposes to pay off with your money.
-G Gordon Liddy


Government is the great fiction,
through which everybody endeavors to live
at the expense of everybody else.
-Frederic Bastiat, French Economist
(1801-1850)


Government's view of the economy
could be summed up in a few short
phrases:
If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving,
regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
-Ronald Reagan (1986)


I don't make jokes. I just watch the
government and report the facts.
-Will Rogers


If you think health care is expensive
now, wait until you see what it costs
when it's free!
-P.J. O'Rourke


In general, the art of government consists
of taking as much money as
possible from one party of the citizens
to give to the other.
-Voltaire (1764)


Just because you do not take an
interest in politics doesn't mean politics
won't take an interest in you!
-Pericles (430 B.C.)


No man's life, liberty, or property is
safe while the legislature is in session.
-Mark Twain (1866 )


Talk is cheap...except when Congress does it.
-Unknown


The government is like a baby's alimentary
canal, with a happy appetite at
one end and no responsibility at
the other.
-Ronald Reagan


The inherent vice of capitalism is
the unequal sharing of the blessings.
The inherent blessing of socialism is
the equal sharing of misery.
-Winston Churchill


The only difference between a tax man
and a taxidermist is that the
taxidermist leaves the skin.
-Mark Twain


The ultimate result of shielding men
from the effects of folly is to fill
the world with fools.
-Herbert Spencer, English
Philosopher (1820-1903)


There is no distinctly Native American
criminal class...save Congress.
-Mark Twain


What this country needs are more
unemployed politicians.
-Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)


A government big enough to give you
everything you want, is strong enough to
take everything you have.
-Thomas Jefferson


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Let Freedom Ring

Our country is still young and its
potential is still enormous.

We should remember, as we look
toward the future, that the more fully
we believe in and achieve freedom
and equal opportunity, not simply for
ourselves but for others, the greater
our accomplishments as a nation will be.

~Henry Ford II~

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I love old movies. I think Hollywood made some
exceptionally fine ones. I was thrilled to find this
gem at my local library!

"The Son of Monte' Cristo" @1941

Baron Von Neuhoff upon his rescue from
the dungeon:

"...I shouldn't have but for Monte Cristo
who is living proof that if justice is
crushed in one land, men will spring to
its defense in every land. For the spirit of
justice creates a common brotherhood."

Gen. Gurko Laven trying to force the

Queen Zona into marriage by threatening
an alliance with Russia who will ensure
HE IS KING regardless:

"Part of diplomacy lies in the fact that
the people never discover the truth until
it is too late."

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The General learned he was WRONG.
Pray God, our nation will also never
learn the truth too late......

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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Working for a Living

Anyone who sees in his own occupation
merely a means of earning money degrades it;

but he that sees in it a service to mankind
ennobles both his labor and himself.

~A. Lawrence Lowell~

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Saturday, September 08, 2007

Charles Dickens

Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty,
not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

~Charles Dickens~

C~B~N's Favorite Old-Time Author

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Saturday, August 11, 2007

Walter Lippman

journalist (1889-1974)

Very few established institutions,
governments and constitutions
are ever destroyed by their enemies
until they have been corrupted and
weakened by their friends.

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The Sword and The Spirit

There are only two forces in the world,
the sword and the spirit.

In the long run the sword will always
be conquered by the spirit.

~Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)~

If he knew that then what the hell were the
Napoleanic wars FOR??? Oh, yeah, I forget....
he's just human and subject to GREED for
wealth and power......

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A Strange Situation

Strange is our situation here upon earth.
Each of us comes for a short visit,
not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming
to a divine purpose.

From the standpoint of daily life,
however, there is one thing we do know:
That we are here for the sake of others...
for the countless unknown souls with
whose fate we are connected by a bond of
sympathy.

Many times a day, I realize how much
my outer and inner life is built upon
the labors of people, both living and dead,
and how earnestly I must exert myself
in order to give in return as much
as I have received.

~Albert Einstein~

from a Mountain Wings Moment
#7197
Wings Over The Mountains of Life

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In Everything

“In everything that I have created, your pain,
your struggles and your disappointments,
there is beauty.

In everything the devil has created, even
that which appears to be beautiful,
is at its core, ugly.”

~God~

from the sermon, “See the Beauty”
for Windows Media player: See the Beauty

Read it here also contains an Ipod link.


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Sunday, October 01, 2006

Cicero

Religion is indispensable to private morals and public order ... and no man of sense will attack it.

{Guess there are few men of sense anymore}


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Anonymous said...
And there are still idiots like you who believe that Iraq was responsible for 9/11?!?

~~I'm not quite sure HOW the above commentor linked this to my quote of Cicero?! But I'll afford him or her the right to voice their comments. I just think it is SAD, however, that they are so intolerant of other viewpoints that this individual must resort to name calling....i.e. the idiot reference. Only those with limited viewpoints AND vocabularies have to resort to name-calling.

C'est la vie.

C~B~N

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