Life is a Bungling process...

"Fascism and communism both promise "social welfare," "social justice," and "fairness" to justify authoritarian means and extensive arbitrary and discretionary governmental powers." - F. A. Hayek
"What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence." — Christopher Hitchens (Hitch-22: A Memoir)
"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

"the difference between a negotiation and an argument ... an argument being something you can win." Christopher Buckley (Thank You For Smoking)

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

"Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it." Ronald Reagan

"Why did God make so many damn fools and Democrats?" Clarence Day

“You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.” Stan Laurel – “Brats”

"If I feel like feeding squirrels to the nuts, this is the place for it." - Cluny Brown

"Oh, pshaw! When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have." Owen Wister "The Virginian"

Oscar Wilde said about the death scene in Little Nell, you would have to have a heart of stone not to laugh.

"Half the World spends its time laughing at the other half, and both are fools." from Think Fast Mr. Moto

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Washington D.C. councilman and former mayor Marion Barry said-

Washington, D.C. councilman Marion Barry said, “We got to do something about these Asians coming in and opening up businesses and dirty shops.”


“If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very very low crime rate.”


“First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I’m a night owl.”


“B**** set me up.”


“All laws are racist. The law of gravity is racist.”


“The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100 percent of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.”


“What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?”


“I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.”


What Did He Say? Barry potent quotables.


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