Quotable Quotes

[drron]

Back working in the public sector.So not sure whether these are indeed humorous-

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing,but who,as a group,decide nothing can be done.
Fred Allen.


Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth Galbraith.

 

[Bundy Bear]

Integrity is telling myself the truth. And honesty is telling the truth to other people. - Spencer Johnson

"Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want" ― Jim Rohn

The 2nd one I think makes a good signature.

 

[anat0l]

One in another language for a slight change:

"L'homme ne peut pas remplacer son coeur avec sa tête, ni sa tête avec ses mains." - Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Translation: "Man cannot replace his heart with his head, or his head with his hands."

 

[amaroo]

"Great men are almost always bad men" - Lord Baron Acton

 

[drron]

Life is about perseverance and compromise.
Your wife perseveres until you compromise.

coughin Kitchin.

 

[Foreigner]

“Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.”

Fermina response to Florentino’s proposal, in Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

Life is about perseverance and compromise.
Your wife perseveres until you compromise.

coughin Kitchin.

Aint that the truth ! :shock:

 

[drron]

An on topic quote-

“I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.”

Ogden Nash​

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

 

[drron]

But the line written by the speech writer was-
"life wasn't meant to be easy but it can be enjoyable."
His speechwriter never forgave him for leaving out the last bit.

 

[JohnM]

But the line written by the speech writer was-
"life wasn't meant to be easy but it can be enjoyable."
His speechwriter never forgave him for leaving out the last bit.

But, never mind, you and one or two others around here are making up for it .

 

[Geegeela]

An on topic quote-

“I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.”

Ogden Nash​

"two Wongs do not make a White".

Arthur Calwell

 

[Jacques Vert]

"two Wongs do not make a White".

Arthur Calwell

I'm old enough to remember him saying that: Disgracefull! As was the whole white Australia policy, etc., etc....

 

[Foreigner]

"Prejudices are what fools use for reason." -

Voltaire

 

[drron]

A great insight about modern election campaigns from the 19th century-

The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money

Alexis de Tocqueville

 

[Foreigner]

'If you can't convince them, confuse them.'

Harry S. Truman

 

[Major]

"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough."

Mario Andretti

 

[Foreigner]

Time and tide wait for no man

- Geoffrey Chaucer

 

[drron]

“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies”.

― Thomas Jefferson​

 

[Foreigner]

Yogi Berra, baseball icon also well known for his pithy comments and witticisms, known as Yogiisms:

On why he no longer went to Ruggeri's, a St. Louis restaurant: "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

When giving directions to Joe Garagiola to his New Jersey home, which was accessible by two routes: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it."

On being the guest of honor at an awards banquet: "Thank you for making this day necessary."

"You can observe a lot by watching."

"Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours."

His stock answer to a writer's cruel nickname, "The Ape": "It doesn't matter if you're ugly in this racket. All you have to do is hit the ball, and I never saw anyone hit with his face."

Berra appeared as himself in an AFLAC commercial. In a barber shop, he told another customer, "They give you cash, which is just as good as money," a reference to his "Yogiisms."

(source: Wikipedia)