One-liners of Experience

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Hopefully, this won’t end up in The Pit. It should provide us with some siggable lines, however.

Fowler’s Maxim: Power is the ability to duck responsibility and goose your underlings.

The revolution was televised. The ratings stank.

Hell hath no fury like that of a business model scorned.

Build a better mousetrap and lawsuits will beat a path to your door.

To achieve legal reform, one must persuade all the lawyers in Congress.

Politics would be great if it wasn’t for all the politicians.

Love is the only narcotic controlled by De Beers instead of the DEA.

Progress happens only so far as it doesn’t threaten industry.
Logic happens only so far as it doesn’t threaten progress.
Thought happens only so far as it doesn’t threaten logic.

Memory is bunk.

Revolutions eat their own children.

Beneath the streets… the sewers!

Revolutions never change anything.

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The winner of a war writes the history.

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The golden rule: Them’s that got the gold make the rules. and

related:

Freedom of the press belongs to the owner of the press.

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Replacing existing tedium with the latest, most up-to-date tedium has been a marketing tool for centuries.

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“It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” Joseph Stalin

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Our problems are largely behind us. Now we must deal with the solutions.

Revolutions are a symptom, not a cure.

Original thought is like original sin: It happened long ago to people you never met.

Give a thief a diploma and he is a businessman, give a mass murderer a uniform and he is a soldier.

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If it looks like a hallucination, walks like a hallucination and quacks like a hallucination, it’s probably a duck.

There are those who think astrology works, and there are those who think.

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Love conquers all… intelligence. And reason, wisdom and sense too.

Love means never having to say “Your butt looks big in that dress.” or “Of course it happens to plenty of men. Not that I’d know.”

Love hurts… like bamboo shoots in your fingernails or acid in your eyes. Other than that, it’s great!

If you love something, set it free like hell. Whadaya think it’s called a “ball and chain” for or it’s until death?

Love is all you need like genital warts, the clap or syphillis.

Love is the answer to what? It sure ain’t masturbation.

Love is a many splendor thing only if you get the money up front.

I think I’ll stop now before I get too carried away by looooooove. :mad:
~faithfool, a reformed ex head-over-heels in-love girl

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(This may not be quite right.)

“Home is where, when you go there, they have to take you in.” --Robert Frost

Aw, heck. None of the quote books I could find had this one.

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Some people live by this one (I guess we all do, to a certain extent):

If I don’t understand it, it doesn’t exist.

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Ahem.

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I found it here but that site isn’t necessarily authoritative.

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From the Go Rin No Sho (Book of Five Rings) by Miyamoto Musashi

Do not think dishonestly.
The Way is in training.
Become aquainted with every art.
Know the Ways of all professions.
Distinguish between gain and loss in worldly matters.
Develop intuitive judgement and understanding for everything.
Perceive those things which cannot be seen.
Pay attention even to trifles.
Do nothing which is of no use.

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“Home is the place where, when you have to go there,
They have to take you in.”

I’ve always been intrigued by that quote, because the man saying it is immediately rebuked by his wife who responds:

“I should have called it
Something you somehow haven’t to deserve.”

And yet it’s the first part that people remember.

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Home is where you can fart freely.

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Never piss into the wind.

Don’t step on Superman’s cape.

Don’t mess around with Jim.

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I always thought that was lifts (Elevators).

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Joe’s Cafe has a Quote generator that gives some pretty siggable lines. I’ve used them before.
Yeah, that’s all I had to add. The only reason I wanted to post here was to see my sig line.

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You forgot “Don’t pull the mask off the Lone Ranger.”

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Or rollerskate in a buffalo heard. But perhaps these days that is obsolete. It should probably definitely be ‘rollerblade’ instead.