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Everyone is entitled to my opinion. - No idea but I loved it
Are you going to believe me or your own eyes? - Groucho Marx
"These are my principles. If you don't like them I have others." --Groucho Marx
"I would join no club that would have me for a member." --Groucho Marx
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.†~ Benjamin Franklin
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy." ~ W.C. Fields
(both quotes largely attributed, but undocumented - still great quotes)
"Your opinion of me is none of my business"
If I wanted your opinion, I'd give it to you...lol
If I wanted your opinion, I'd give it to you...lol
Probably not original but I first heard that in the film 'GI Jane'. Then stole it for my song 'Shut Up And Sing' cos it's a great line!
From the Willie Nelson song "Gotta Get Drunk"
There's a lot of doctor's tell me that I'd better start slowing it down, but there's more old drunks than there are old doctor's so I guess we'd better have another round.
Or,
Time to take the bull by the tail, and look the situation in the face.
(couldn't resist, it's the Texas in me.)
I read a great one by Arthur Conan Doyle that someone picked up on:
"Talent immediately recognises genius, but mediocrity knows nothing more than itself"
Take that "Captain" Pugwash!
You can lead a horse to water....
But a pencil must be lead! 
"Everybody has to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer."
"All I need are some tasty waves, a cool buzz, and I'm fine." - Jeff Spicoli (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) 
"Sometimes in the morning, when it's a good surf, I go out there, and I don't feel like it's a bad world." - Kary Mullis
"I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled"
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
-- Henry David Thoreau, "Where I Live"
"But after all we must remember that 'art is art.' Still, on the other hand, water is water, isn't it? And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like apple sauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh - now you tell me what you know." -Groucho Marx
Some of my faves:
"A day without sunshime is like, well, night.
When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty.
Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.
I wonder how deep the ocean would be without sponges.
Just remember.. if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.
You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
I possess something money won't buy - poverty.
Some cause happiness wherever they go, others, whenever they go.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
Never drink water - fish make love in it (WC Fields?).
Tresspassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again.
badeye
"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we are paying for" - Will Rogers
"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." --Cardinal Newman
"The artist appeals to that part of our being which is not dependent on wisdom: To that in us which is a gift and not an acquisition-and, therefore, more permanently enduring." --Conrad
" Hows 'bout I just rip ya' lips right off , take 'em and kiss my butt all ovah?!"
-Mike Tyson
"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."
-John Wooden
"You wanna get rid of drug crime in this country? Fine, let's just get rid of all the drug laws."
-Ron Paul
Very nice quotes...
Love them man!
"I never stay depressed long--my attention span is too short." --Robert A. Day
"Cancel my subscription, I don't need your issues." --Woody Paige, sports writer and pundit
"I'm out of my mind. Feel free to leave a message." --Woody Paige
"I don't get even, I get odder." --Woody Paige
"A clear conscience is usually the sign of bad memory." --Woody Paige
"There is too much blood in my caffeine system." --Woody Paige
"I know it all, I just can't remember it simultaneously." --Woody Paige
"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed." --Robert Frost
"I went to sea to see the sea...And all I've seen is the flipping sea!!!"
Me, the other Sunday.
Good day all. Welcome home last week and all that.
I got an e-mail about some sayings copied down from an old farmer known to the author of the e-mail. That's probably not true, but that's what the e-mail said. It's probably been around the world 400 times by now, but still I liked the sayings and thought they fit in here, so here goes. One of my rare 'cut and pastes'.
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* 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 just kill you.
Good ones!!
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