What are some of your favorite Quotes

[Tom Joad]

“He said ‘skin in the game.’ I don’t know if you saw his recent statement…We’ve spent two trillion dollars, thousands of lives lost, wounded warriors who I love all over the place. And he said we have to prove we have skin in the game. I think it may be one of the dumbest statements I ever heard.”

Donald Trump

[donquixote99]

Well, if we're quoting Trumpish:

When asked by a reporter what he would do specifically to stop Iranians from gaining a nuclear weapon, he replied, "Well you're going to have to use very forceful action. Very, very forceful action."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-t...sidential-bid/

[mpholland]

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by mpholland

"Sounds bossy."

http://politicalchat.org/showthread....ht=cory+booker

[mpholland]

Originally Posted by Boreas

"Sounds bossy."

http://politicalchat.org/showthread....ht=cory+booker

Well you know those Rhodes scholars...

Not surprised it was in here already, just new to me. Guess I'll have to start searching before posting, however some quotes bear repeating on occasion.

[MrPots]

Don't know who said this...

"Intelligence is knowing a tomato is a fruit,
wisdom is know not to put it in a fruit salad"

That's just the sort of dipshit quote I'd like......

[donquixote99]

Sinclair Lewis's stuff mainly dates to the 1920's and 30's. So why does it sound so much like he's a current pundit?

He still had a fragment of his boyhood belief that congressmen were persons of intelligence and importance.

I must say I'm not very fond of oratory that's so full of energy it hasn't any room for facts.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business ... then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.

The men leaned back on their heels, put their hands in their trouser-pockets, and proclaimed their views with the booming profundity of a prosperous male repeating a thoroughly hackneyed statement about a matter of which he knows nothing whatever.

It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.

Now we got a lawyer, we got civilization, which I understand to mean that a man has a chance to get rich without working.

Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.
All from Sinclair Lewis, 1885 - 1951

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[merrylander]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Sinclair Lewis's stuff mainly dates to the 1920's and 30's. So why does it sound so much like he's a current pundit?



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Parents had a couple of his books in their library. Since I was lousy at sports I read most of everything they had in my teens.

[djv8ga]

"Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do." - Bruce Lee.

[Pio1980]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

Sinclair Lewis's stuff mainly dates to the 1920's and 30's. So why does it sound so much like he's a current pundit?



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Then there's H. L. Mencken.

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