Saturday, April 15, 2017

Interesting and funny quotes

Quotes from:
"1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said"
by Robert Byrne


"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell." 

Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)


"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956)


"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."   

Robert Orben


"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul  can always depend on the support of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950)


"There is no distinctly American criminal class -- except Congress."
Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
 


"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."   
Mark Twain (1835-1910)


"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain
(1835-1910)


"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
 

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Will Rogers
(1879-1935)


"You can't say civilization don't advance ... in every war they kill you a new way."   
Will Rogers (1879-1935)


"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers
(1879-1935)



"It's not what we don't know that hurts, it's what we know that ain't so."
Will Rogers
(1879-1935) 

 

"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
Herbert Hoover
(1874-1964)


"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
Abraham Lincoln
(1809-1865)


"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."  Thomas Jefferson
(1743-1826)