Post a pithy saying.

[comanche]

And in the end...it's not the years in your life that counts, it's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln

People are as happy as they make up their minds to be. Abraham Lincoln

 

[dmarsh8]

Smart people believe about half of what they hear;
smarter people know which half to believe.

 

[marv]

Ye know yer old when yer kids are gittin' senior discounts.

 

[HeadlessRoland]

"When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion—when you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing—when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors—when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you—when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice—you may know that your society is doomed." - Francisco d'Anconia, 'Atlas Shrugged'

 

[Bulldog49]

Life is hard, it's even harder if you're stupid.

 

[Cpl. Klinger]

I may be ugly, but you're stupid. Ugly can be fixed.

 

[stephen87]

Life is like a box of chocolates. It sucks if you've got diabetes.

 

[dmarsh8]

These glorious insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words.

The exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor:
She said, "If you were my husband I'd poison your tea."
He said, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

A member of Parliament to Disraeli:
"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease."
"That depends, Sir," said Disraeli, "whether I embrace your policies or your mistress."

"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." Clarence Darrow

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway).

"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it." Moses Hadas

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." Mark Twain

"He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." Oscar Wilde

"I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend.... if you have one." - George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill
"Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second.. if there is one." - Winston Churchill, in response.

"I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." Stephen Bishop

"He is a self-made man and worships his creator." John Bright

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." Irvin S. Cobb

"He is not only dull himself; he is the cause of dullness in others." Samuel Johnson

"He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up." Paul Keating

"In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." Charles, Count Talleyrand

"He loves nature in spite of what it did to him." Forrest Tucker

"Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" Mark Twain

"His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." Mae West

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." Oscar Wilde

"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination." Andrew Lang (1844-1912)

"He has Van Gogh's ear for music." Billy Wilder

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." Groucho Marxe

Saw these over on sigtalk.

 

[T/SF34/A]

A buddy of mine from work has many. Two of my favorites are:

You can't be a beacon if your light don't shine

and

Even a blind dog finds a tree every once in a while

 

[SaintsNSinners]

Poop doesnt evaporate son

 

[BrownDog]

Right is right even if no one does it; wrong is wrong even if everyone does it.

 

[mdmayo]

None of us is as dumb as all of us.

 

[dsol]

Build a man a fire, he is warm for a day.
Set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life.

 

[Steve B]

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust

What is within surrounds us. - Rainer Maria Rilke

Lord, grant me weak eyes for things that are of no account and strong eyes for all Thy truth. - Soren Kierkegaard

We walk by faith and not by sight. -St. Paul

 

[LowerSW]

One I always tell my kids,
" be glad you do not understand why they did that, because if you did then you would think like them"
and another one that their outspoke father likes to tell them...
"If it sounds like something your father would say, it's probably not the right thing to say"

 

[TopDog]

You dress a monkey in a suit, but it's still just a monkey. (Monkey Suit)

Similar to you can put lipstick on a pig...

 

[JeremiahJohnson]

"It ain't so much the things we know that hurt us, it's the things we know that ain't so." Mark Twain

 

[N8RV]

I can't believe it. 77 posts and NOBODY has posted the obvious ...

"a pithy saying."

Some people just can't follow instructions.

 

[shanksinator]

If at first you don't succeed maybe skydiving isn't for you.

 

[Doug]

Anyone who voted for any Democrat who DOESN'T sign up for Obamacare is a hypocrite.