"Satiety comes of too frequent repetition; and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking"

-Michel de Montaigne

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 
Barefoot and in the kitchen, comrade!

 oldviolin wrote: 

all in the call of duty.

Some bastard must have stolen my shoes.

 NoEnzLefttoSplit wrote: 

That is a fine looking young man you have there Bruski. You're not too bad yourself for a crusty old geezer.

We do not have the capitalist attitude to women
might need to click on larger to read it..
from Nikita Kruschev

 Painted_Turtle wrote: 

That is why the two dominant parties wanted nothing to do with debating Nader. Those questions were better unbroached as far as they were concerned. Too many political pitfalls. IMO, of course.

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself.

That, in essence is Fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by a group or by any controlling private power."

—President Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Man, I don't play the guitar. I hit the guitar"  - Neil Young

"My one regret in life is that I am not someone else."

-Woody Allen

...haha!...I don't really relate to that one that much...

"Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future."

Fulton Oursler

Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

 Painted_Turtle wrote: 

love him. 

There's also a quote in the same book that I LOVE about how when we try to repress a memory we speed up, when we try to remember something we slow down.  Something about the ratio of the two.... I need to look for that.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

~ Milan Kundera

Andy Dufresne: You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific?
Red: No.
Andy Dufresne: They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.

"Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold calculating manner. They pinch little children, steal stamps, drink water, favor beards." -
J. B. Morton (1893-1979)

A new one:

"The more I think about it the more this election day feels like one giant collective, global puke. That Bush-Cheney thing never quite settled with us, did it? We'll feel a lot better but a lot more tired once the last heave is over."

- Andrew Sullivan
I can relate.

 "Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar."

-Drew Carey

"A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? "-Albert Einstein