These are assorted quotes that I thought were worth saving. There is no significance to these, I just liked them when I saw them. These are not in any particular order, although new ones tend to end up on top. Don't take these too seriously.
"In order to be happy, you need three things:
Something to DO,
Something to LOVE
and Something to HOPE for.
--Pickles
"Successes only last until someone screws them up,
Failures last forever.
--Dr. House
"I suppose it is good for the child’s sake
that, in our culture, a name is generally
chosen right after birth when the baby is
so cute and innocent, rather than in the
breakaway days of adolescence."
"If it were otherwise, I predict that we
would have many more boys named Sue
and girls named Jessica."
--Wade - www.vagabondjourney.com
Bob Replied:
I think more likely:
Damien, Jezebel, and Lucifer.....
"LIFE is perhaps too complex a practice
to learn through instruction, rather,
exposure and error are the true teaching methods."
--
“Women rule the planet, for some reason nobody has told them.”
- Andy Graham - HoboTraveler.com
"Nothing scares the pants off of a Government
like when the people who pay the bills start protesting."
--Mallard Fillmore
"I took the road less traveled,
Now where the hell am I?"
--
“Dear Lord, please don’t let me f**k up.”
--Alan Sheppard - Mercury One
"Every journey by car is time taken from your life,
every journey by bike is an experience added. "
"Whatever you give a woman, she will make greater.
If you give her sperm, she'll give you a baby.
If you give her a house, she'll give you a home.
If you give her groceries, she'll give you a meal.
If you give her a smile, she'll give you her heart.
She multiplies and enlarges what is given to her.
So, if you give her any crap, be ready to receive a ton of shit."
"Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice Doggie' until you can find a rock"
--Will Rogers
"Nothing will work unless you do."
--Maya Angelou
"There are two kinds of fool.
One says, ‘This is old, and therefore good.’
And one says, ‘This is new, and therefore better’"
--John Brunner
"If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."
--Katharine Hepburn
“Every occasion in life
can be categorized either as
a good time or a good story.”
"The budget should be balanced,
the Treasury should be refilled,
Public debt should be reduced,
the arrogance of officialdom
should be tempered and controlled,
and the assistance to foreign lands
should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt.
People must again learn to work,
instead of living on public assistance."
--Cicero - 55 BC
So what have we learned in over 2,000 years?
"Anyone can tell the truth,
not everyone can handle hearing it."
-- Katchus
"LIFE is perhaps too complex a practice
to learn through instruction, rather,
exposure and error are the true teaching methods."
"work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
--Parkinson’s Law
“A wise and frugal government,
which shall leave men free to regulate
their own pursuits of industry
and improvement, and shall not
take from the mouth of labor
the bread it has earned
- this is the sum of good government.”
-–Thomas Jefferson
"Proximity breeds contempt."
“Realize your youth while you have it.
Don’t squander the gold of your days,
listening to the tedious,
or giving your life away to the ignorant and the common.
These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age.
“Live ” live the wonderful life that is in you.
Be afraid of nothing.
There is such a little time that your youth will last
- such a little time.”
--from Wilde's Picture of Dorian Grey
"If you still owe, you don't own.
"home ownership" is actually "debt ownership"
"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices - Just recognize them."
--Edward R. Murrow
"Do things right and permanent as possible the FIRST time.
If you don't have the time or money to do it right,
when will you have time or money to do it over?"
"Giving the lecture AND the ticket is bad form."
--Mr. Hobart says
"people are like rats, they can survive on cardboard."
"don't remove someone's coping mechanism
unless you have something better to replace it with".
"There's a reason this is the third world."
--
"Life is 10 percent what you make it,
and 90 percent how you take it."
--Irving Berlin
"Free thinkers are generally those who never think at all."
--Laurence Sterne, author (1713-1768)
"No matter what side of an argument you're on,
you always find some people on your side that
you wish were on the other side."
--Jascha Heifetz
"To change, and to improve are two different things."
--German Proverb
From 101 things you should do, often:
"Bite off more than you can chew,
Then Chew it anyway.
"Anything worth doing is
a lot more difficult than it's worth."
--Anonymous
"The more we learn the more we realize how little we know."
--R. Buckminster Fuller
"To change, and to improve are two different things."
--German Proverb
"To alcohol! The cause of,
and solution to all of life's problems!"
--Homer Simpson
"Opportunity may knock only once,
but temptation really leans on the doorbell."
"I ain't gonna live forever
I just want to live while I'm alive"
--Bon Jovi
"To change and to improve are two different things."
--German Proverbs
"You are only young once,
but you can stay immature indefinitely."
"If you could kick the person in the pants responsible
for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
--Theodore Roosevelt
"Never let the small things bother you.
There are very few helpless situations in life.
You must go out and find solutions
to the problems that confront you."
-- Peter Peterson - German U-Boat Engineer
"Lawyers can steal more money with a breifcase
than a thousand men with guns and masks."
--Vito Corleone
"It's good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."
--Anonymous
"A man in debt is so far a slave."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-- Mark Twain
"If you still owe, you don't own.
"home ownership" is actually "debt ownership"
"The first wealth is health."
- Emerson
"It isn't really Bravery unless you are really scared."
--NPD 1987
"The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call 'life'
which is required to be exchanged for it immediately or in the long run."
--Henry David Thoreau
"Even though I don't have all the things I want,
I'm really grateful for all the things I don't have that I don't want."
--ZITS
"Half of all the humans that have ever existed are alive today!"
--Anonymous
"Sometimes low self esteem is just good common sense."
--Anonymous
"Hard work pays off in the long run,
but laziness pays off now!"
-Jack Langley
"Enjoy the trip"
--HoboTraveler.com
"Laugh while you can Monkey Boy!"
--Dr. Emilio Lizardo (Buckaroo Bonzai)
"Don't look for the good in people, look for the good people."
"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.
The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets.
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses
in the keeping of their wits."
--Teddy Roosevelt
"Competition is a by-product of productive work,
*not* its goal. A creative man is motivated by
the desire to achieve,
*not* by the desire to beat others."
-- Ayn Rand
"Unemployment insurance is a
pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."
--Ronald Reagan
"America's abundance was created
not by public sacrifices to the common good,
but by the productive genius of free men
who pursued their own personal interests and
the making of their own private fortunes.
They did not starve the people to pay for
America's industrialization.
They gave the people better jobs, higher wages,
and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented,
with every scientific discovery or technological advance-
and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting,
not suffering, every step of the way."
-- Ayn Rand
"Since there is no such entity as 'the public,'
since the public is merely a number of individuals,
the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private
interests and rights can have but one meaning:
that the interests and rights of some individuals
take precedence over the interests and rights of others."
-- Ayn Rand
"We should measure welfare's success
by how many people leave welfare,
not by how many are added. "
--Ronald Reagan
"Any sufficiently advanced technology
is indistinguishable from magic."
--Arthur C. Clarke
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Freedom is never more than
one generation away from extinction.
We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream.
It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for
them to do the same. "
--Ronald Reagan
"Stupidity is also a gift of God,
but one mustn't misuse it.
--Pope John Paul II
"Government always finds a need
for whatever money it gets. "
--Ronald Reagan
"Economic power is exercised by means of a positive,
by offering men a reward, an incentive, a payment, a value;
political power is exercised by means of a negative,
by the threat of punishment, injury, imprisonment, destruction.
The businessman's tool is values; the bureaucrat's tool is fear."
-- Ayn Rand
"Government does not solve problems;
it subsidizes them."
--Ronald Reagan
"Radical changes in world politics leave America
with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world,
an example of a genuinely free, democratic,
just and humane society.
--Pope John Paul II
"Government exists to protect us from each other.
Where government has gone beyond its limits is
in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
--Ronald Reagan
"The historical experience of socialist countries
has sadly demonstrated that collectivism
does not do away with alienation but rather
increases it, adding to it a lack of basic
necessities and economic inefficiency."
--Pope John Paul II
"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
"No man is ever old enough to know better. "
--Holbrook Jackson
"Governments tend not to solve problems,
only to rearrange them."
--Ronald Reagan
"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things
that can happen to a man."
--James Thurber
"Inflation is as violent as a mugger,
as frightening as an armed robber
and as deadly as a hit man."
--Ronald Reagan
"If you can't live such that people are sad to see you go,
at least live such that they are not glad to see you go."
--Bob L
"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size.
Government programs, once launched, never disappear.
Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing
to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"
--Ronald Reagan
"We can't help everyone,
but everyone can help someone."
--Ronald Reagan
"The first rule of any technology used in a business
is that automation applied to an efficient operation
will magnify the efficiency.
The second is that automation applied to an
inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
--Bill Gates
"One way to make sure crime doesn't pay
would be to let the government run it."
--Ronald Reagan
"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part
of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists
the circulation of the blood."
--Logan P. Smith
"Republicans believe every day is the Fourth of July,
but the democrats believe every day is April 15."
--Ronald Reagan
"Businessmen are the one group that distinguishes
capitalism and the American way of life from the
totalitarian statism that is
swallowing the rest of the world.
All the other social groups- workers, farmers,
professional men, scientists, soldiers-
exist under dictatorships,
even though they exist in chains, in terror,
in misery, and in progressive self-destruction.
But there is no such group as businessmen
under a dictatorship. Their place is taken by
armed thugs: by bureaucrats and commissars.
Businessmen are the symbol of a free society
- the symbol of America."
-- Ayn Rand
"Do not make the mistake...of thinking that
a worker is a slave and that he holds his
job by his employer's permission.
He does not hold it by permission - but by contract,
that is, by a voluntary mutual agreement.
A worker can quit his job; a slave cannot."
-- Ayn Rand
"City smog and filthy rivers are not good for men
(though they are not the kind of danger that the
ecological panic-mongers proclaim them to be).
This is a scientific, technological problem
— not a political one—
and it can be solved only by technology..
Even if smog were a risk to human life,
we must remember that life in nature,
without technology, is whole-sale death."
-- Ayn Rand
"It is the true nature of man to sit in a comfortable chair
while being waited on.
It is the true nature of woman to make sure this does not happen."
--Bob L
"Nothing should be prized more highly
than the value of each day."
--Goethe
“Invention is Observation.”
--Anonymous
"A person, who is nice to you,
but rude to the waiter,
is not a nice person."
(This is very important. Pay attention! It never fails.)"
"Vice is most dangerous
when it is put in the garb of virtue."
--Danish Proverb
"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.""
--Vince Lombardi
"The most depraved type of human being
is the man with no purpose"
--Atas Shrugged
"As you say, it is easier to save a buck,
than to make a buck."
--Wade
"The grand essentials to happiness in this life are
Something to do,
Someone to love, and
Something to hope for."
--Joseph Addison 1672-1719
"The American male does not mature
until he has exhausted all other possibilities"
--Wilfred Sheed
"Lost time is never found again."
--Benjamin Franklin
"Women and cats will do as they please,
and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
--Robert A. Heinlein
"Nothing causes self-delusion quite so readily as power."
--Liu Binyan
"We are selfish, base animals crawling across the earth.
Because we've got brains, we try real hard, we can
occasionally aspire to something that is less than pure evil."
--Dr. House
"If at first you don't succeed, try try again.
Then quit. No need to be a fool about it."
"Every coercive monopoly was created
by government intervention into the economy:
by special privileges, such as franchises or subsidies,
which closed the entry of competitors into a given field,
by legislative action."
-- Ayn Rand
"Every government interference in the economy consists
of giving an unearned benefit, extorted by force,
to some men at the expense of others."
-- Ayn Rand
"Every movement that seeks to enslave a country,
every dictatorship or potential dictatorship,
needs some minority group as a scapegoat
which it can blame for the nation's troubles
and use as a justification of its own demands
for dictatorial powers.
In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie;
in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people;
in America, it is the businessmen."
-- Ayn Rand
"Force and mind are opposites;
morality ends where the gun begins."
-- Ayn Rand
"Happiness is that state of consciousness
which proceeds from the achievement of one's values."
-- Ayn Rand
"The most learned are often the most narrow minded."
--Hazlitt, William
"I'd rather regret the things I've done
than the things I haven't.
"All we have to decide is what to do
with the time that is given to us."
--J.R.R. Tolkien
"Two measures of your life:
1) Have you found joy in your life?
2) Have you brought joy to others?"
--Morgan Freman - The Bucket List
"To expect the world to treat you fairly
because you're a good person,
is like expecting a bull not to charge you
because you're a vegetarian. "
"In a way,
I think the whole world is searching to become a somebody,
in reality we need to accept that we are a nobody,
then we can be ourselves."
--Andy at Hobotraveler.com
"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."
--William Gibbs McAdoo
"The democracy will cease to exist
when you take away from
those who are willing to work
and give to those who would not."
--Thomas Jefferson
"The best way to confuse people
is tell them the truth.
We're so used to BS
that the truth is very disturbing."
"Forcing someone to provide you health care,
or to give you a loan,
or to provide you for your other desires
is not freedom.
You can't have freedom
by taking freedom from others
by forcing them, using government coercion,
to supply you with your wants.
That is a form of tyranny or
at the least totalitarism
- none of which are even slightly compatible
with freedom."
"The less you know the simpler it seems"
"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things.
The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic
feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight,
nothing which is more important than his own personal safety,
is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free
unless made and kept so by the exertions
of better men than himself."
--John Stuart Mill
"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.
The young are slaves to dreams;
the old servants of regrets.
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses
in the keeping of their wits,"
--Teddy Roosevelt
These pablum puking left wing adult crybaby children
need to be "more tolerant of my insensitivity and
sensitive to my lack of tolerance
for their ridiculous inane utopian beliefs."
--Wayne Wilson
"The problems that exist in the world today
cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them."
--Albert Einstein
"If it ain't broke, don't lend it."
-- Red Green
"When in doubt, Duck"
--Malcolm Forbes
"Think you used enough dynamite there, Butch?"
--The Sundance Kid to Butch Cassidy in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure
and the intelligent are full of doubt."
--Bertrand Russell
"Why are you discriminating aginst me for my intolerance?
If I am intolerant for some genetic reason, then I can't help it.
And if I'm intolerant because I can't learn to be otherwise,
then obviously I have a learning problem.
Why is it acceptable for you to be an idiot,
but not acceptable for me to notice it?
You need to start appreciating me for my intolerance!"
--Alice (Dilbert Cartoon)
"........Duct tape is like the force, it has a light side,
a darkside and holds the universe together.
It is theoretically reinfored with strings too."
"SMWISICDI - Show Me Where It Says I Can't Do It."
"History is mostly guessing, the rest is prejudice."
--Will Durant
"It's been interesting times,
in the Chinese curse sense of the term."
"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include
the freedom to make mistakes."
--Mahatma Gandhi
"If people are good only because they fear punishment,
and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
--Albert Einstein on Religion
"The only proper functions of a government are:
the police, to protect you from criminals;
the army, to protect you from foreign invaders;
and the courts, to protect your property and
contracts from breach or fraud by others,
to settle disputes by rationale rules,
according to objective law.
--Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
"A proper govenment is only a policeman,
acting as an agent of man's self defense."
--Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand
"Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons,
for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine,
it is stranger than we can imagine.
- Sir Arthur Eddington
"Don't talk to me about naval tradition.
It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash."
--Winston Churchill
"All critics are contemptible.
They are like eunuchs in a harem.
They see the trick turned every night,
but they will never be able to do it."
--Hemingway
"I'm a great believer in luck,
and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. "
--Thomas Jefferson
"I don't mind Jesus, it's his fan club I can't stand."
"Blood is thicker than water, and much tastier."
"There's nothing wrong with Florida that a force-five hurricane wouldn't fix"
--Carl Hiaasen
Why is it acceptable for you to be an idiot,
but not acceptable for me to notice it?
You need to start appreciating me for my intolerance!"
--Alice (Dilbert Cartoon)
"People have the right to be stupid,
but some people abuse that privilege."
"Honor is self-esteem made visible in action."
-- Ayn Rand
"I can say - not as a patriotic bromide,
but with full knowledge of the necessary metaphysical,
epistemological, ethical, political, and aesthetic roots
- that the United States of America is the greatest,
the noblest and, in its original founding principles,
the only moral country in the history of the world."
-- Ayn Rand
"I guard my treasures: my thought, my will, my freedom.
And the greatest of these is freedom."
-- Ayn Rand
"I swear by my life, and my love of it,
that I will never live for the sake of another man,
nor ask another man to live for mine."
-- Ayn Rand
"If you ask me to name the proudest distinction of Americans,
I would choose- because it contains all the others
- the fact that they were the people who created
the phrase "to make money". No other language or nation
had ever used these words before; men had always thought
of wealth as a static quantity
- to be seized, begged, inherited, shared, looted or
obtained as a favor. Americans were the first to
understand that wealth has to be created."
-- Ayn Rand
"In a capitalist society, all human relationships are voluntary.
Men are free to cooperate or not, to deal with one another or not,
as their own individual judgments, convictions and interests dictate."
-- Ayn Rand
The Wright Brothers weren't the first to fly.
They were just the first not to crash.
"I think that if one is not free in heart then
they will not be free in travel or in any other pursuit.
I measure freedom in the smile on someone's face
when they first wake up in the morning.
Nothing more and nothing less.
--Wade if www.openroadsong.com
I think that happiness is found to a certain extent
in accepting rather than changing.
It is my impression that some people wake up
in the morning with smiles on their faces, and
then need something to happen to remove it,
and then there are people who wake up without a smile
and need something to happen to put it on.
--Wade if www.openroadsong.com
"Every Day Is An Adventure. Weird Shit Will Happen."
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"First rule my mother taught me: always be polite
to everyone you meet, regardless of their status
or station in life. Treat the weak the same as
the high and mighty. Address the poor and marginalized
in the same manner as the rich and powerful.
Second rule she taught me: never trust any of them."
--Anonymous Poster on Vagabondjourney.com
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"God grant me the serenity to
accept things that i cannot change
the courage to change the things that I can
and the weaponry to make the difference."
"Calling an Illegal Alien an undocumented worker
is like calling a drug dealer a unlicensed pharmacist."
"I am trying to lose weight (high cholesterol and all that).
I have a secret diet that works great called the ELEM diet.
I can share it with you since I know you can keep a secret.
You see, it is so revolutionary that apperently no one else has ever discovered it.
I am going to write a book and make a fortune.
ELEM stands for Eat Less, Excercise More.
Quite revolutionary, and the book will be cheap since the title is the entire book.
Won't need any internal pages or anything.
I'm gonna be rich.
--Bob L, Scholar
"An error does not become a mistake until you fail to correct it."
--John F. Kennedy
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
~Mark Twain
"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes."
--Walden
"Sometimes the things that may or may not be true
are the things a man needs to believe in the most.
That people are basically good;
that honor, courage, and virtue mean everything;
that power and money, money and power mean nothing;
that good always triumphs over evil;
and I want you to remember this, that love... true love never dies.
You remember that, boy. You remember that.
Doesn't matter if it's true or not.
You see, a man should believe in those things,
because those are the things worth believing in."
--Hub - Second Hand Lions
"You can have anything in the world you want if you'll
just help enough other people get what they want."
-- Ziglar, Zig
"Time is like a current in a fast river.
You have limited choices.
You can fight it, which only makes you too tired to do anything about it.
You can swim to shore and watch time go by, talk about boring.
OR you can ride the waves, whooping and hollering and in the end look back and ask:
Can I do that again?
If in the end you can ask that question, then you have really lived your life."
--Bob L.
"The youth of man will never die unless he murders it"
--
"In any compromise between food and poison,
it is only death that can win.
In any compromise between good and evil,
it is only evil that can profit."
-- Ayn Rand
"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote;
a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority;
the political function of rights is precisely to
protect minorities from oppression by majorities
(and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."
-- Ayn Rand
"Individual rights are the means of
subordinating society to moral law."
-- Ayn Rand
"It is a grave error to suppose that a
dictatorship rules a nation by means of strict,
rigid laws which are obeyed and enforced with
rigorous, military precision.
Such a rule would be evil, but almost bearable;
men could endure the harshest edicts,
provided these edicts were known, specific and stable;
it is not the known that breaks men's spirits,
but the unpredictable.
A dictatorship has to be capricious;
it has to rule by means of the unexpected,
the incomprehensible, the wantonly irrational;
it has to deal not in death, but in sudden death;
a state of chronic uncertainty is what men are
psychologically unable to bear."
-- Ayn Rand
"It is futile to fight against,
if one does not know what one is fighting for."
-- Ayn Rand
"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man
as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the
moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement
as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."
-- Ayn Rand
"One can not be a traitor to anything, except to oneself."
-- Ayn Rand
"Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent."
-- Ayn Rand
"Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then..."
--Bob Seger
"However mean your life is, meet it and live it;
do not shun it and call it hard names."
--Walden
"Had God asked my opinion (He hasn’t, yet)
of what he should do to make us really happy,
I’d have said, “Make life hell; make it scary.
Make us different from one another so we can be suspicious of each other.
Give us lots of things to be fearful of and worry about so we.....
”Wait a minute, that’s the way we are. Hmm.
Now I understand why Adam and Eve ate that apple;
because they were human.
Can you imagine how boring Eden must have been?"
--John Silveira
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream ."
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring,
close-knit family living in another city."
-- George Burns
"When I do good, I feel good;
when I do bad, I feel bad,
and that is my religion."
--Abraham Lincoln
"I am always doing that which I can not do,
in order that I may learn how to do it."
--Pablo Picasso
"People are racist, judgmental, petty, more or less
in the closet bigots who keep saying to themselves
they are open minded."
--Hobotraveler.com
"In a moment of decision the best thing you can do
is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."
--Theodore Roosevelt
"Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end.
It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing;
it's when you've had everything to do, and you've done it."
--Margaret Thatcher
"When asked what I wanted to be when I got older.
I replied that I wanted to be nothing and do everything."
--Wade at Vagabond
"Life is weird, you should not expect it to be any other way."
--Kathleen Modrowski, anthropologist
"The problem with people who have no vices
is that generally you can be pretty sure
they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
- Elizabeth Taylor
"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is,
the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."
--Eastwood, Clint
"Walking is the best possible exercise.
Habituate yourself to walk very far."
--Thomas Jefferson
"A man can do great things as soon
as he hits and stays at rock bottom.
From here there is never anywhere else to go but up."
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
President Theodore Roosevelt
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THE BEST THINGS IN LIFE
You can be thirty-three and over the hill,
Or ninety-three going on nine.
Age isn't living a number of years;
It is ony a state of mind.
You're never too old to be young.
If you make love and laughter part of the plan;
For the best thing in life is to die young
As old as you possibly can.
Scott Friedman
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"I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind.
Some come from ahead and some come from behind.
But I've bought a big bat.
I'm all ready you see.
Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
-–Dr. Seuss
"Adults are obsolete children."
--Dr. Seuss
"We think we believe what we know,
but we only truly believe what we feel."
--Laurence Gonzales, Deep Survival
"My richness consists not in the extent of my possessions;
but in the fewness of my wants."
--J. Brotherton
"Being poor is a useful life skill."
"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things
he can afford to let alone."
-- Henry David Thoreau
"Never spend your money before you have it."
--Thomas Jefferson
"In my experiences of working on the Road and
of working in general, it has come to my mind that
there are two work skills that an employee needs to have
to easily find employment, and two skills only:
1. To be able to wake up in the morning
- to get to work on time.
2. To keep your mouth shut - to do what you are told."
www.openroadsong.com
"So you think that money is the root of all evil?
Have you ever asked what is the root of money?
Money is a tool of exchange, which can't exist
unless there are goods produced and men able
to produce them. Money is the material shape
of the principle that men who wish to deal with
one another must deal by trade and give value for value.
Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim
your product by tears or of the looters,
who take it from you by force.
Money is made possible only by the men who produce.
Is this what you consider evil?"
-- Ayn Rand
"That something happened to you is of no
importance to anyone, not even to you.
The important thing about you is what
you choose to make happen
- your values and choices.
That which happened by accident
- what family you were born into,
in what country, and where you went
to school - is totally unimportant."
-- Ayn Rand
"The precept: Judge not, that ye be not judged ...
is an abdication of moral responsibility:
it is a moral blank check one gives to others
in exchange for a moral blank check one
expects for oneself."
"The moral precept to adopt...is:
Judge, and be prepared to be judged."
-- Ayn Rand
"The only proper purpose of a government
is to protect man's rights, which means:
to protect him from physical violence...
The only proper functions of a government are:
the police, to protect you from criminals;
the army, to protect you from foreign invaders;
and the courts, to protect your property
and contracts from breach or fraud by others,
and to settle disputes by rational rules,
according to objective law."
-- Ayn Rand
"The only purpose of education is to
teach a student how to live his life
-by developing his mind and equipping
him to deal with reality.
The training he needs is theoretical, i.e.,
conceptual. He has to be taught to think,
to understand, to integrate, to prove.
He has to be taught the essentials of
the knowledge discovered in the past-and
he has to be equipped to acquire further
knowledge by his own effort."
-- Ayn Rand
"The purpose of morality is to teach you,
not to suffer and die, but to
enjoy yourself and live."
-- Ayn Rand
"The smallest minority on earth is the individual.
Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim
to be defenders of minorities."
-- Ayn Rand
"My Father ... told me ... If I am going to earn money,
I must even things up by not spending it.
As he expressed it, I had to keep the fraction constant,
and if I was not able to increase the numerator,
then I must reduce the denominator."
--Theodore Roosevelt -
"In other words, either make more, or spend less"
--Bob L
“The key to wealth is being satisfied
with what you already have,”
"A friend of mine gave me advice when I was 20 years old,
“Never trust anyone who can make money by giving you
bad advice.” (Their benefits are often many layers away...)"
--Andy at HOBOTRAVELER.COM
(This is especially true with the media)
"If women didn't exist,
all the money in the world would have no meaning."
--Aristoteles Onassis
"But we would have a lot more of it"
--Bob L
"A 'good' ride is one you can walk away from.
A 'great' ride is one you can walk away from
and use the bike again.
--Anonymous
"Four wheels move the body.
Two wheels move the soul."
"Live free to irritate others"
"Loud pipes disturb lives"
"Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences.
No one can eliminate prejudices -- just recognize them."
--Edward R. Murrow
"Justice without force is powerless.
Force without justice is tyrannical."
“Guerillas never win wars,
but their adversaries often lose them.”
--Charles W. Thayer
"Your failure to be informed, does not make me a whacko."
- John Loeffler
"You can't fight City Hall.
But you can take a crap on the steps and run."
"I think I can say, and say with pride,
that we have legislatures that bring higher
prices than any in the world"
-- Mark Twain
“In politics, there are few skills more richly rewarded
than the ability to misstate issues in a way
that will sound plausible and attractive.”
--Thomas Sowell
“There is something about a Republican that
you can only stand him just so long;
and on the other hand, there is something about
a Democrat that you can’t stand him quite that long.”
-—Will Rogers
"The uncontested absurdities of today are
the accepted slogans of tomorrow."
-- Ayn Rand
"There can be no such thing, in law or in morality,
as actions forbidden to an individual,
but permitted to a mob."
-- Ayn Rand
"There is a level of cowardice lower
than that of the conformist:
the fashionable non-conformist."
-- Ayn Rand
"There's no way to rule innocent men.
The only power government has is
the power to crack down on criminals.
When there aren't enough criminals,
one makes them.
One declares so many things to be a crime
that it becomes impossible for men
to live without breaking laws."
-- Ayn Rand
"Thinking men cannot be ruled."
-- Ayn Rand
"To know one's own desires,
their meaning and their costs
requires the highest human virtue:
rationality."
-- Ayn Rand
"Today, when a concerted effort is made
to obliterate this point, it cannot be
repeated too often that
the Constitution is a limitation on the government,
not on private individuals
- that it does not prescribe the conduct
of private individuals, only the conduct
of the government - that it is not a
charter for government power,
but a charter of the citizen's
protection against the government."
-- Ayn Rand
"Unjust laws have to be fought ideologically;
they cannot be fought or corrected by means
of mere disobedience and futile martyrdom."
-- Ayn Rand
"Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think."
-- Ayn Rand
"What they have to discover, what all the
efforts of capitalism's enemies are frantically
aimed at hiding, is the fact that capitalism is
not merely the 'practical,' but the only moral system in history."
-- Ayn Rand
"When I say capitalism, I mean a full, pure,
uncontrolled, unregulated laissez faire capitalism,
with a separation of state and economics,
in the same way and for the same reasons
as the separation of state and church."
-- Ayn Rand
"A strong conviction that something must be done
is the parent of many bad measures."
- Daniel Webster
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at
tax collectors... and miss."
-—Robert A. Heinlein
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President
should on no account be allowed to do the job."
--Douglas Adams
"I despise politics in any form,
I hate the manifestations of liberalism
and conservatism with equal passion,
and I can only be intrigued and entertained
by the rash ignorance of radicals on either
side of the line."
--Wade at vagabondjourney.com
WORLD PANIC
-Killer Bees wiping out North America
-Ozone hole destroying all life as we know it.
-Impending Ice Age - caused by man
-Peak oil
-Y2K - enter the dark ages
-Bird Flu will wipe out all people
-Out of oil by the year 1990, no 2000, no peak oil by the year 2012, no......
-Global Warming caused by man
-What is the next farce?
"In the USA, we have freedom with responsibility
and equal opportunity with severe competition.
Life is not easy in the USA, and people work
for what they get or go home empty handed.
The road to the pot of gold in any country
is lined with thorns, obstacles, and road blocks."
--Adapted and edited from vagabondjourney.com
"The most expensive thing in the world
is a second-best military establishment,
good but not good enough to win."
- Robert A. Heinlein,
"Those who cannot remember the past,
are a highly sought after voting bloc."
--Mallard Fillmore
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."
--Tacitus
(and boy are there a lot of laws in the US)
"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."
--Milton Friendman
"No woman in my time will be Prime Minister..."
--Margaret Thatcher
"Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms should be a convenience store,
not a government agency."
"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist
is that the taxidermist leaves the skin."
--Mark Twain
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President
should on no account be allowed to do the job."
--Douglas Adams
"In my opinion, politics is a big circus populated by clowns.
The only significant role they have ever played in my life is
to hinder my progress or frustrate my belief in the innate
goodness of mankind.
They are the bogeymen of my memories, always meddling in the
affairs of hard working people, passing senseless laws,
and stifling the individual efforts of people instead
of letting them combine to push the nation forward."
--Dave Duffy
"When they call the roll in the Senate,
the Senators do not know whether to answer
'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"
- Theodore Roosevelt
"In the first place, we should insist that
if the immigrant who comes here in good faith
becomes an American and assimilates himself to us,
he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else,
for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man
because of creed, or birthplace, or origin.
But this is predicated upon the person's becoming
in every facet an American, and nothing but an American...
There can be no divided allegiance here.
Any man who says he is an American, but something else also,
isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag,
the American flag.. We have room for but one language here,
and that is the English language.. and we have room for
but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to
the American people."
--Theodore Roosevelt 1907
"Elections are won by men and women
chiefly because most people vote against somebody
rather than for somebody."
-- Franklin P. Adams
"When you see that trading is done, not by consent,
but by compulsion — when you see that in order to produce,
you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing
– when you see money flowing to those who deal, not in goods,
but in favors – when you see that men get richer by graft
and pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against
them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption
being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice
– you may know that your society is doomed.”
-–Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged (1957)
"There's nothing so permanent,
as a temporary government program."
--Milton Friedman
"The ultimate defense of our liberties is in three boxes:
the ballot box
the jury box
the ammo box
In that order....."
"Allah does not pick sides when men are killing each other."
--Tarik (Dragon Sword)
"POLITICS, n. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
--Ambrose Bierce in The Devil's Dictionary
"It wasn't until I had lost America,
that I realized how much I loved her."
Senator John McCain
"Politics is not the art of the possible.
It consists in choosing between the disastrous
and the unpalatable."
- John Kenneth Galbraith
"The Framers of the Constitution created a
decentralized republic, and
explicitly not a democracy,
because they knew that the latter
tended toward centralization and tyranny."
"They proclaim that every man is entitled
to exist without labor and, the laws of reality
to the contrary notwithstanding,
is entitled to receive his
"minimum sustenance" his food, his clothes,
his shelter, with no effort on his part,
as his due and his birthright.
To receive it, from whom?"
-- Ayn Rand
"Intellectual freedom cannot exist without
political freedom; political freedom cannot
exist without economic freedom;
a free mind and a free market are corollaries."
-- Ayn Rand
"Inflation is not caused by the actions
of private citizens, but *by the government*:
by an artificial expansion of the money supply
required to support deficit spending.
No private embezzlers or bank robbers
in history have ever plundered people's savings
on a scale comparable to the plunder perpetrated
by the fiscal policies of statist governments."
-- Ayn Rand
"The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly
evident which everybody had decided not to see."
-- Ayn Rand
"...the person who loves everybody and feels
at home everywhere is the true hater of mankind.
He expects nothing of men, so no form
of depravity can outrage him"
-- Ayn Rand
"Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday
... The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact
that abundant consumption is the result
and reward of production."
-- Ayn Rand
"The man who lets a leader prescribe his
course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap."
-- Ayn Rand
"Capitalism demands the best of every man
-- his rationality -- and rewards him accordingly.
It leaves every man free to choose the work he likes,
to specialize in it, to trade his product for
the products of others, and to go as far on the
road of achievement as his ability and
ambition will carry him."
-- Ayn Rand
"Words are a lens to focus one's mind."
-- Ayn Rand
"The skyline of New York is a monument
of a splendour that no pyramids or palaces
will ever equal or approach."
-- Ayn Rand
"We can evade reality, but we cannot evade
the consequences of evading reality."
-- Ayn Rand
"The question isn't who is going to let me;
it's who is going to stop me."
-- Ayn Rand
"Pride is the recognition of the fact that
you are your own highest value and,
like all of man’s values, it has to be earned."
-- Ayn Rand
"Everyone has the right to make his own decisions,
but none has the right to force his decision on others."
-- Ayn Rand
The most depraved type of human being ...
(is) the man without a purpose."
-- Ayn Rand
"Money is the barometer of a society's virtue"
-- Ayn Rand
"There's nothing of any importance except
how well you do your work."
-- Ayn Rand
"When men live by trade, with reason, not force,
as their final arbiter, it is the best product
that wins, the best performance, the man of best
judgment and highest ability, and the degree of
a man's productiveness is the degree of his reward.
This is the code of existence whose tool and
symbol is money. Is this what you consider evil?"
-- Ayn Rand
"The problem to be solved is,
not what form of government is perfect,
but which of the forms is least imperfect."
--James Madison
"Democracy is two wolves and a sheep
voting on what to have for lunch.
Freedom is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote."
"Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods."
--H.L. Mencken
"We cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong."
--Abraham Lincoln
"The strongest reason for people to retain the right
to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort,
to protect themselves against tyranny in government.”
—-Thomas Jefferson
"Politics is not a bad profession.
If you succeed there are many rewards,
if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
--President Reagan
"We are spending $3.9 billion or $10 per citizen
for new voting machines.
Canada just prints ballots."
--Robert X. Cringly
"A government big enough to give you everything you want,
is strong enough to take everything you have"
--Thomas Jefferson
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A prophet in 1944
Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 - December 19, 1968,
and some of us are old enough to remember him running for President)
was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential
candidate for the Socialist Party of America.
Norman Thomas said this in a 1944 speech:
"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism.
But, under the name of "liberalism," they will adopt every fragment
of the socialist program, until one day America will be a
socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."
He went on to say:
"I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate
for the Socialist Party.
The Democratic Party has adopted our platform."
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"We spend our time and effort creating exciting new communications technologies,
yet half the world does not have access to a telephone.
We use the internet to order the latest novel,
yet many people in the world don't have access to books.
We are now discussing embedded processors to connect
our refrigerators to bathroom scales and the grocery store,
yet many children in the world go hungry at night."
--Bill Robinson
"Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called
comforts of life are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind."
--Walden
There is a story of engineers applying for a job at IBM.
The question they were asked was, how does a toilet work?
Answers they gave included all kinds of forces and spin of earth on the axis.
Correct answer: You push the handle and the shit goes away.
"Computers used to take up entire buildings,
now they just take up our entire lives."
--Author Unknown
"Enjoy the trip"
--HoboTraveler.com
"I may not have gone where I intended to go,
but I think I have ended up where I intended to be."
--Douglas Adams
"A ship in a harbor is safe,
but that’s not what ships are built for."
--William Shedd
"There is nothing more selfish than travel"
--Andy the Hobo Traveler www.hobotraveler.com
"Actually, I find that life on the road is
surprisingly consistent.....
I think that I have found a touch of stability
in constant motion."
--Wade of www.openroadsong.com
"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit
wealth" the man who would make his own fortune
no matter where he started. If an heir is equal
to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him...
Do not think that it should have been distributed among you;
loading the world with fifty parasites instead of one,
would not bring back the dead virtue which was the fortune.
Money is a living power that dies without its root.
Money will not serve the mind that cannot match it."
-- Ayn Rand
"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters:
the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably;
the man who respects it has earned it."
-- Ayn Rand
"Run for your life from any man who tells you
that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's
bell of an approaching looter. So long as
men live together on earth and need means
to deal with one another, their only substitute,
if they abandon money, is the muzzle of a gun."
-- Ayn Rand
"Productive work is the road of man's unlimited
achievement and calls upon the highest attributes
of his character: his creative ability, his
ambitiousness, his self-assertiveness, his
refusal to bear uncontested disaster, his
dedication to the goal of reshaping the
earth in the image of his values."
-- Ayn Rand
"The social system based on and consonant
with the altruist morality -- with the
code of self-sacrifice -- is socialism,
in all or any of its variants: fascism,
Nazism, communism. All of them treat man
as a sacrificial animal to be immolated
for the benefit of the group, the tribe,
the society, the state."
-- Ayn Rand
"Honest people are never touchy about
the matter of being trusted."
-- Ayn Rand
"America is the land of the uncommon man.
It is the land where man is free to
develop his genius -- and to get
its just rewards."
-- Ayn Rand
"We are fast approaching the stage
of the ultimate inversion: the stage
where the government is free to do
anything it pleases, while the citizens
may act only by permission; which is the
stage of the darkest periods of human history,
the stage of rule by brute force."
-- Ayn Rand
"The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping
on the rungs of opportunity."
-- Ayn Rand
"There is nothing as boring as depravity."
-- Ayn Rand
"The notion of racial quotas is so obviously
an expression of racism that no lengthy
discussion is necessary. If a young man is
barred from a school or a job because the
quota for his particular race has been filled,
he is barred by reason of his race. Telling
him that those admitted are his ‘representatives’
is adding insult to injury. To demand such
quotas in the name of fighting racial
discrimination is an obscene mockery."
-- Ayn Rand
"Observe the intensity, the austere, the unsmiling
seriousness with which an infant watches the
world around him. If you ever find, in an adult,
that degree of seriousness about reality,
you will have found a great man."
-- Ayn Rand
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
J.R.R. Tolkien
"Unhappy people at home make for unhappy travelers.
I do not believe that traveling can make an
unhappy person happy.
--Wade if www.openroadsong.com
"The pleasure of travel increases in direct proportion
to the decrease of baggage."
--Richard Halliburton, Royal Road to Romance (1925)
"Own only what you can carry with you;
know language, know countries, know people.
Let your memory be your travel bag."
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Anyone that can travel and doesn't
is cheating themselves out of a thousand lives."
--www.vagabondjourney.com
"Too much contact with people brings conflict,
hatred, and attachment.
To rid myself of inner conflicts and hatred, I must walk."
--Japanese poet monk Taneda Santoka
"Adventure only happens when things go wrong."
"They say that travelling broadens your mind,
but first you must have a mind."
"I never travel without my diary.
One should always have something sensational
to read in the train."
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
"'Travail' is the root word of travel."
"Excuse me, I need to go."
“An uncomfortable bed free
is better than a comfortable bed unfree.”
--Jack Kerouac
"America has not yet reached the state
of a dictatorship. But, paving the way to
it, for many decades past, the businessman
has served as the scapegoat for statist
movements of all kinds: communism, fascism,
or welfare statism. For whose sins did the
businessman take the blame? For the sins
and evils of the bureaucrats."
-- Ayn Rand
"The small minority of adults who are
unable rather than unwilling to work,
have to rely on voluntary charity;
misfortune is not a claim to slave labor;
there is no such thing as the right to
consume, control, and destroy those
without whom one would be unable to survive."
-- Ayn Rand
"One of the methods used by statists
to destroy capitalism consists in
establishing controls that tie a given
industry hand and foot, making it unable
to solve its problems, then declaring
that freedom has failed and stronger
controls are necessary."
-- Ayn Rand