" was there ever a people whose leaders were as truly their enemies as this one?"
Robert Jordan from Hemingway's "for whom the bell tolls"
Robert Jordan from Hemingway's "for whom the bell tolls"
a quote for today's America
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David Crockett to William Travis at the Alamo, after looking over the parapet to see a crowd advancing over the hill -
"Hey, Bill, are we pouring concrete today?"
"Hey, Bill, are we pouring concrete today?"
"For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid." – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Give a man a match and he'll be warm for a minute. Light a man on fire and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
“You could put a blonde wig on a hot-water heater and some dude would try to f**k it.” — Tina Fey
“Driveway” is a carryover from the time when large homes would have a “drive” that connected them to the public street or road.
“Parkways” were originally envisioned to be long, narrow parks with an associated roadway.
We “park” an automobile because in the very early days of the automobile, the only convenient place to leave an auto inattended overnight was in a park.
You are welcome.
Nice try, but we’re the only country that embraces the idea of “American.”
ETA: Well, about half of is anyway.
"On the trees, instead of leaves, Communists will be hanging"
Absolutely correct, and a wrong answer rings so atonal that it grinds the teeth, and rattles the ear.
For decades, my kids and I referred to him (Bill Paxton) as “Game-over-man” whenever he’d show up in another movie.
I can't help but think of him in "Twister!" He had a subtle sense of comedic timing. Him and Helen Hunt worked so well together.
Phillip Seymour Hoffman (RIP) was stellar, as usual. Although, I liked his character in "Boogie Nights."
"I'm an idiot!"
Thank you for the correction. Something in a dark corner of my brain didn’t think that was correct when I posted it
The dogs of war (phrase)
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The dogs of war is a phrase spoken by Mark Antony in Act 3, Scene 1, line 273 of English playwright William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar: "Cry 'Havoc!', ...
"You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out of prosperity. What one person receives without working for another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for that my dear friend is the beginning of the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it."
- Beavis and Butthead, or something
- Beavis and Butthead, or something
