Wednesday, January 30, 2013

All Truisms

A collection of thoughts from the past two thousand years or so.

 
GREAT TRUTHS
 
1. In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. -- John Adams
 
2. If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain
 
3. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain
 
4. 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
 
5. A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw
 
6. 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
 
7. Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. -- James Bovard , Civil Libertarian (1994)
 
8. Foreign aid might be defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. -- Douglas Case , Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown University.
 
9. Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P.J. O'Rourke , Civil Libertarian
 
10. Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. -- Frederic Bastiat , French economist(1801-1850)
 
11. 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)
 
12. I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. -- Will Rogers
 
13. If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free! -- P. J. O'Rourke
 
14. 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)
 
15. 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.)
 
16. No man's life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session. -- Mark Twain (1866)
 
17. Talk is cheap, except when Congress does it. -- Anonymous
 
18. The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other. -- Ronald Reagan
 
19. 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
 
20. The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin. -- Mark Twain
 
21. The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer , English  Philosopher (1820-1903)
 
22. There is no distinctly Native American criminal class, save Congress. -- Mark Twain
 
23. What this country needs are more unemployed politicians -- Edward Langley ,  Artist (1928-1995)
 
24. A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.  -- Thomas Jefferson
 
25. We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public  office. -- Aesop
 

FIVE INTERESTING STATEMENTS
 
1. You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity, by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity.
 
2. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.
 
3. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else.
 
4. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.
 
5. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work, because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is the beginning of the end of any nation!
 

Saturday, January 19, 2013

Drinking Man Driven To Logic

Lady: Do you drink?

Man: Yes...

Lady: How much a day?

Man: Three 6 packs...

Lady: How much per 6 pack?

Man: About $10.00...

Lady: And how long have you been drinking?

Man: 15 years...

Lady: So one 6 pack cost $10.00 and you have 3 packs a day which puts your spending each month at $900. In one year, it would be $10,800 correct?

Man: I guess so ...

Lady: If in 1 year you spend $10,800 not accounting for inflation, the past 15 years puts your spending at $162,000 correct?

Man: I guess so...

Lady: Do you know that if you hadn't drank, that money could have been put in a step-up interest savings account and after accounting for compound interest for the past 15 years, you could have now bought a Ferrari?

Man: Do you drink?

Lady: No...

Man: Then, where's your damn Ferrari?

Thursday, January 03, 2013

Romance Interruptus....

A man and woman were having a quiet, romantic dinner in a fine restaurant. They were gazing lovingly at each other and holding hands.

Their waitress, taking another order at a table a few steps away, suddenly noticed the man slowly sliding down his chair and under the table, but the woman acted unconcerned.

The waitress watched as the man slid all the way down his chair and out of sight under the table.

Still, the woman appeared calm and unruffled, apparently unaware her dining companion had disappeared. The waitress went over to the table and said to the woman, "Pardon me, ma'am, but I think your husband just slid under the table."

The woman calmly looked up at her and said, "No, he didn't. He just walked in the door."