This Mess

"Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'. "
- Ronald Reagan

Do Good

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can."
- John Wesley

Truth, Honor, Courage?

"There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom,....  and that is character."
- H.L. Mencken

What's Your Problem?

I don’t owe you anything.  I don’t want anything for you or from you, and I don’t expect anything of you.

Luck

That's the way it usually goes; first your money, then your clothes.

Happy?

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer

Do Good

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you can."
- John Wesley

Knowledge

They can't tax you on it and they can't take it away, and they hate that.

Boy Scout Law

A Scout is:

•Trustworthy,
•Loyal,
•Helpful,
•Friendly,
•Courteous,
•Kind,
•Obedient,
•Cheerful,
•Thrifty,
•Brave,
•Clean,
•and Reverent.

Truth, Easier Than Lies

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain

Nothing is Impossible

Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.
- A. H. Weiler

Make No Law

Legislation that does not apply equally to all persons is corruption.  A law with exemptions is criminal.

Nothing Is

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
-Unknown

Decisions, Decisions?

I used to be indecisive. Now I'm not sure.
-Unknown

Stars in the Night Sky

"Oh. I always thought they were balls of gas burning billions of miles away."
-Pumbaa 

Obama?

"An army of sheep lead by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep."
- Arab proverb

Circumstantial

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

Henry David Thoreau

Beware

The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding.

Louis D. Brandeis

Humans

...too many people, and too few human beings.

paraphased from Robert Zend

With Guns

"No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."

Ronald Reagan

Bigots

It is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we could be wrong.

Modified from G. K. Chesterton's original quote

Could Be

The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left.

Ecclesiastes 10:2

It's no accident that the conservatives are called the right.

Problem Solving

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

- Abraham Maslow

What You Don't Know

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

Confucius

Maybe

One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.

Bertrand Russell (1951)

Insanity

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Nikola Tesla

Strange

"Strange is our situation here upon earth.  Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to a divine purpose.  From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: That we are here for the sake of others...for the countless unknown souls with whose fate we are connected by a bond of sympathy.  Many times a day, I realize how much my outer and inner life is built upon the labors of people, both living and dead, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received."

Albert Einstein

Perspective

Remember, some people are alive simply because it's illegal to shoot them.

Anonymous

No Change

When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'

Theodore Roosevelt

Makes Sense

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Theodore Roosevelt

Horror Movies

I watch too much television news to be frightened by horror movies.

Voting

Many citizens will never learn to be very careful with loaded guns or their vote.

Idiots

It often puzzles me why an all powerful God would let something like Senator Boxer happen. Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest clearly has exceptions for Senators.

Work

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

Good President

"The people of these United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and courts not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert that constitution."

Abraham Lincoln

Consider This

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Not Funny

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Will Rogers

Be Careful

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut

Responsibility

Medical Advice

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

Stranger Than Truth

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."

Ernest Hemingway

Truth

I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.

Harry S Truman

The Problem

Little Change

I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wisdom Lost

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Benjamin Franklin

Self Solving Problem

Things Done Badly

You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Beliefs

That which has always been accepted by everyone, everywhere, is almost certain to be false.

Paul Valery

Weakness

Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many.

Eric Hoffer(1902 - 1983)

Pond Scum

We have made some progress on this planet, considering for most of the time we were pond scum.

Anonymous

Stupidity

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Friedrich von Schiller

Clearly

"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws."

Tacitus A.D 56 - 120

Change

"You must become the change you wish to see in the world."

Gandhi

Foresight

Today's well meaning aren't looking ahead far enough.

Sand Stormo

The Result

No matter how kind or right the program seems, you should occasionally look at the result.

Anonymous

What's Required?

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."

Winston Churchill

Ideas Common, Action Scarce

There are lots of good ideas, with no practical value.

Anonymous

A Clue

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

Lessons

Conservatives believe foolish failed ideas shouldn't be retired just because a couple generations have passed.

Unknown

Life Lessons

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Aristotle

Learning

It's harder to hear when your mouth is open.

Anomymous

Life

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Find Joy

How rare and very precious is joy.

Unknown

Old Farmer's Advice:

Your fences need to be horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong.

Keep skunks and bankers at a distance.

Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

Words that soak into your ears are whispered...not yelled.

Meanness don't jes' happen overnight.

Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.

Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you.

It don't take a very big person to carry a grudge.

You cannot unsay a cruel word.

Every path has a few puddles.

When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

The best sermons are lived, not preached.

Most of the stuff people worry about ain't never gonna happen anyway.

Don 't judge folks by their relatives.

Remember that silence is sometimes the best answer.

Live a good, honorable life.. Then when you get older and think back, you'll enjoy it a second time.

Don 't interfere with somethin' that ain't bothering you none.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a Rain Dance.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin'.

Sometimes you get, and sometimes you get got.

The biggest troublemaker you'll probably ever have to deal with,
watches you from the mirror every mornin'.

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lotta that comes from bad judgment.

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier than puttin' it back in.

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around..

Live simply. Love generously. Care deeply.

Speak kindly.... Leave the rest to God.

Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight,
he'll probably just kill you.
 
Unknown

Ignorance Allows Magic

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Arthur C. Clarke

Doing What?

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.

Wernher von Braun

Rules?

Hell, there are no rules here-- we're trying to accomplish something.

Thomas A. Edison

Deceptions Taught

History is more or less bunk.

Henry Ford

Don't Accept the Unearned

Those powerful enough to give you the unearned,
can easily take what you own.

Who Knew

Bigotry is not certainty decided, bigotry is unwillingness to consider otherwise.

The Gods Laugh

The gods too are fond of a joke.

Aristotle

Think Clearly

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

Nikola Tesla

Liberty or Security

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Franklin 1775

Mankind’s Plight

Is the boundless fight against tyrannical government and oppressive taxation.

Any Questions

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Albert Einstein

Global Warming Good

A person will be able to accumulate resources and wealth, replace ignorance, clamor toward freedom, and throw off the yoke of oppressive taxation, once again.

It's Work

If it was fun, it would be called an amusement park, and you would be paying them.