If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
Virginia Woolf

For Trek:

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

George S. Halas

"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."

-Scott Adams

There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore looking like an idiot.

— Steven Wright

"If prostitution is illegal, why is congress still operating?...we, the taxpayers, put up the money and they screw us."

- Anon.

"A honest politician is like a virgin prosititute.
If it exists, it doesn't last for long."
                                                - the_jake

Al Franken on the Minnesota Senate race:  "I'm the only New York Jew in this race who actually grew up in Minnesota."

MonkeyPod wrote:

Think, 'Everything is right with me.  Everything is right with my environment.'  By thinking that something is wrong with you, you became unwell.  Your environment is your palace.  Just as we say that the body is the temple for the soul, in the same way your home, your environment is your palace.   -Tibetan monk.

Bill Maher:  "America is a country, now it is two Americas, there's like a progressive European nation that a lot of us live in or would like to live in and it's being strangled by the Sarah Palins of the world.  It can't quite be born because this other stupid Redneck nation won't allow it."

"What we have here is a failure to communicate."

Powerful Women's  Motto:

Live your life in such a way that
when your feet hit the floor in the  morning,
Satan shudders & says...
'Oh shit....she's awake!!''

"Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder"

Anonymous

Lawyer: Now, doctor, which way would someone fall after receiving a twelve-gauge shotgun blast directly in the chest?

Witness: Down.

~ actual courtroom testimony

What is fear of poverty but poverty itself?
-Kahlil Gibran


(I fink it woz when 'e woz tellin' da punters not to hoard stuff).

 smokinsean wrote: 
Excellent post.

"Ghandi's seven sins:
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humility
Worship without sacrifice
Politics without principle"

"She's worked with her hands and nose." - John McCain about Sarah Palin

"He's a tough guy Obama.  He may not want to do this for political reasons and all that.  But I looked at him eye to eye.  He's not a wimp.  He's not a wimpy guy"  - Bill O'Reilly

Antigone wrote:
by 40, if my best friend and i weren't married, we were going to buy a duplex together.

sometimes...well, you know!!