"People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately."
-Oscar Wilde

Showing vs. telling

 miamizsun wrote: 

But I can't think of anything to relate that too except for everything of course.

ha!

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” 

 Upton Sinclair

today?

"you are not your big toe"

New Russian proverb: “Everything the Communists said about Communism was a lie, but everything they said about capitalism turned out to be the truth.”

"In my line of work I have often enjoyed the best of both worlds:
Three bean casserole from Earth and condroizal soup from Rigel 5."

                                                               - Willy the Asteroid 

When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.

Lorsque la Spoliation est devenue le moyen d’existence d’une agglomération d’hommes unis entre eux par le lien social, ils se font bientôt une loi qui la sanctionne, une morale qui la glorifie.

Frédéric Bastiat, 1848

 phineas wrote: 
You mean like a hobo with no tapioca in his underpants? 

 phineas wrote: 

I really like this one, too.

 Beanie wrote: 

I like this one better.

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

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Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

~ Mick Jagger

Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way.

Seems very apt for our political forums- from my favourite poet by the way.  Actually this isn't my favourite quote of his- I like some of the love poems.

 n4ku wrote: 

I read this as Obama addresses the AFL-CIO. Today, finally, it's Labor's turn. 

 Beanie wrote: 

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

“What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more leisure and less greed; more justice and less revenge; in fact, more of the opportunities to cultivate our better natures.”

- Samuel Gompers

Be pretty if you can
Be witty if you must
But be gracious if it kills you.

— Elsie de Wolf

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. 

Winston Churchill