aphorisms

[tigersport14]

can anyone give me an example of an aphorism? i have to get 5 random aphorisms for school...help would be great, thx

[ramrod]

Republicans and Democrats are like a criminal gang which has
fallen out over how to spend the stolen money." - DMA 20060911

"The best way to deal with a bureaucracy is with an upraised
finger." - DMA 20060709

"How about a collective term for libertarians?
Perhaps a 'disagreement of libertarians'?" - DMA 20060708

"Government is like a pile of shit. The bigger you make it,
the more flies you attract," - DMA 20060708

"Liberty isn't given. It's taken." - DMA 20060621

"Linux isn't my passion. It's just the best damn
screwdriver I've ever owned." - DMA 20060624

"Nanotechnologists do it with atomic balls." - DMA 20060629

"I have a real problem with the state of prisoners at
Guantanamo: they are still breathing." - DMA 20060604

"God made men equal, and Smith and Wesson make damn
sure it stays that way." - unknown

"Government isn't the solution: It's the Enemy." - DMA 20051018

"Few things are more dangerous and likely to end
in evil circumstance than juxtaposition of the
desire and the power to 'do good'." - DMA 20060217

"The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by
submitting to it is simply a flight from fact. As I
have said, it is only possible to people who have
money and guns between themselves and reality." - George Orwell, October 1941

"To converse at the distance of the Indes by means
of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future
times as to us is a literary correspondence." - Joseph Glanvill, 1661

"When the German Kaiser asked in 1912 what the quarter of
a million Swiss militiamen would do if invaded by a half
million German soldiers, a Swiss replied: "Shoot twice
and go home." - source unknown

"If you run into a brick wall, get a bazooka." - DMA 20040831

"Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly
alert." - Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"

"We americans, we're a simple people...
but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities." - Robin Williams,
"Good Morning Vietnam"

"There is no such thing as a Class. There are only individuals
with temporarily aligned self-interests. - DMA 20050322

"The State is not my friend. My friends are competent." - DMA 20040927

"When in doubt, do it. It's much easier to apologize
than to get permission." - Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've
always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

"We should not be building surveillance technology into
standards. Law enforcement was not supposed to be easy.
Where it is easy, it's called a police state." - Jeff Schiller

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies
that could someday facilitate a police state." - Bruce Schneier

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor, and you will have war." - Winston Churchill reply
to Neville Chamberlain's
claim of "peace in our time"

"I sleep like a baby, too. Every two hours I wake
up screaming!" - Colin Powell sometime between
2001-2004, taken from some
earlier unknown source.

"I find it interesting when folks say we're softening
them up. We're not softening them up, we're killing
them." - USAF General Moseley about
Republican Guard divisions
outside of Baghdad.
"Coalition Forces Air
Component Command Briefing
April 5, 2003"

"Where liberty is, there is my country" - Benjamin Franklin

"Those who do not have swords may still die upon them."
- JRR Tolkien, "The Two Towers"

"If this makes any difference to you, they're not
gay in the sense that we usually think of it,"
Eliot explains. "They're het, but they're
pirates. They'll go after anything that's warm
and concave." - Neal Stephenson, "Snow Crash"

"An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be
devoured." - Konrad Adenauer

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
- C. P. Snow

"The Wahabbi's are against everything I stand for:
Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll." - DMA 20040323

"There once was a man named Osama,
Who suffered a serious trauma
When his father said, "Son,
I screw camels for fun,
And you really resemble your mama." - Andrew Sullivan 20011011

good luck!

[ramrod]

My fav!



"The great virtue of a free market system is that it does not care what
color people are; it does not care what their religion is; it only
cares whether they can produce something you want to buy. It is the
most effective system we have discovered to enable people who hate one
another to deal with one another and help one another."
- Milton Friedman
If this quote was used in a daily base ! There would be World Peace.

[ss~zoso~ss]

Republicans and Democrats are like a criminal gang which has
fallen out over how to spend the stolen money." - DMA 20060911

"The best way to deal with a bureaucracy is with an upraised
finger." - DMA 20060709

"How about a collective term for libertarians?
Perhaps a 'disagreement of libertarians'?" - DMA 20060708

"Government is like a pile of shit. The bigger you make it,
the more flies you attract," - DMA 20060708

"Liberty isn't given. It's taken." - DMA 20060621

"Linux isn't my passion. It's just the best damn
screwdriver I've ever owned." - DMA 20060624

"Nanotechnologists do it with atomic balls." - DMA 20060629

"I have a real problem with the state of prisoners at
Guantanamo: they are still breathing." - DMA 20060604

"God made men equal, and Smith and Wesson make damn
sure it stays that way." - unknown

"Government isn't the solution: It's the Enemy." - DMA 20051018

"Few things are more dangerous and likely to end
in evil circumstance than juxtaposition of the
desire and the power to 'do good'." - DMA 20060217

"The notion that you can somehow defeat violence by
submitting to it is simply a flight from fact. As I
have said, it is only possible to people who have
money and guns between themselves and reality." - George Orwell, October 1941

"To converse at the distance of the Indes by means
of sympathetic contrivances may be as natural to future
times as to us is a literary correspondence." - Joseph Glanvill, 1661

"When the German Kaiser asked in 1912 what the quarter of
a million Swiss militiamen would do if invaded by a half
million German soldiers, a Swiss replied: "Shoot twice
and go home." - source unknown

"If you run into a brick wall, get a bazooka." - DMA 20040831

"Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly
alert." - Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"

"We americans, we're a simple people...
but piss us off, and we'll bomb your cities." - Robin Williams,
"Good Morning Vietnam"

"There is no such thing as a Class. There are only individuals
with temporarily aligned self-interests. - DMA 20050322

"The State is not my friend. My friends are competent." - DMA 20040927

"When in doubt, do it. It's much easier to apologize
than to get permission." - Admiral Grace Murray Hopper

"I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've
always worked for me." - Hunter S. Thompson

"We should not be building surveillance technology into
standards. Law enforcement was not supposed to be easy.
Where it is easy, it's called a police state." - Jeff Schiller

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies
that could someday facilitate a police state." - Bruce Schneier

"You were given the choice between war and dishonor.
You chose dishonor, and you will have war." - Winston Churchill reply
to Neville Chamberlain's
claim of "peace in our time"

"I sleep like a baby, too. Every two hours I wake
up screaming!" - Colin Powell sometime between
2001-2004, taken from some
earlier unknown source.

"I find it interesting when folks say we're softening
them up. We're not softening them up, we're killing
them." - USAF General Moseley about
Republican Guard divisions
outside of Baghdad.
"Coalition Forces Air
Component Command Briefing
April 5, 2003"

"Where liberty is, there is my country" - Benjamin Franklin

"Those who do not have swords may still die upon them."
- JRR Tolkien, "The Two Towers"

"If this makes any difference to you, they're not
gay in the sense that we usually think of it,"
Eliot explains. "They're het, but they're
pirates. They'll go after anything that's warm
and concave." - Neal Stephenson, "Snow Crash"

"An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be
devoured." - Konrad Adenauer

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
- C. P. Snow

"The Wahabbi's are against everything I stand for:
Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll." - DMA 20040323

"There once was a man named Osama,
Who suffered a serious trauma
When his father said, "Son,
I screw camels for fun,
And you really resemble your mama." - Andrew Sullivan 20011011

good luck!

he needs five, help him out man wtf??

[ramrod]

Nonsense! Maybe he can get some extra credit! LOL

[BadBlueBird*]

4 easy ones plus one of the above..


Hippocrates: Life is short, art is long, opportunity fleeting, experimenting dangerous, reasoning difficult.

Pope: Some praise at morning what they blame at night.

Emerson: Imitation is suicide

Franklin: Lost Time is never Found again.

[tigersport14]

thx guys

[D!ck]

"When the German Kaiser asked in 1912 what the quarter of
a million Swiss militiamen would do if invaded by a half
million German soldiers, a Swiss replied: "Shoot twice
and go home." - source unknown

nice one

[ramrod]

"When the German Kaiser asked in 1912 what the quarter of
a million Swiss militiamen would do if invaded by a half
million German soldiers, a Swiss replied: "Shoot twice
and go home." - source unknown

nice one

I like that one...

another one of my favs!

"Those who do not have swords may still die upon them."
- JRR Tolkien, "The Two Towers"