Give me quotes or give me death!

"The Bible is the rock on which our Republic rests." (Andrew Jackson)

"To read the Bible. . . is a necessity of American life." (Herbert Hoover)

"The Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Saviour of the world is communicated to us through this Book." (Abraham Lincoln)

"No book has so molded the life of a nation at the Bible has shaped America. It has been America?s hope, its foundation, its molder of character. The Bible has sustained America throughout its 200-year history and is our only hope of security for the years ahead. (Ronald Reagan)

 

That's real nice wez. Take a painful situation for a friend and use it to continue a stupid fight. You, sir, are an a sshole. - eddo

 

Die my dear doctor ? Thats the very last thing I shall do.

Lord Palmerston - I think, just before he snuffed it.

 

You sir, are a hypocrite who can't answer a simple question ~ wez

 

RO thinks that Terrence Cody, DL @ Alabama, is a two-ton mountain man who showers in vodka and feeds his babies shrimp scampi.

-RO's reaction to whoever lines up opposite Cody.

 

Quotes attributed to Abe Lincoln:

They're all good "quotes", though.

 

No doubt.. love Honest Abe quotes..


Here's my favorite Abe quote Salt..


If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg. ~ Honest Abe

 

Never argue with idiots. They bring you down to their level and then beat you with their experience.

--I don't remember....but damn it is sooo true.

 

Someone that rhymes with LimesJoke immediately comes to mind...

 

The hypocrite's crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. ~ Hannah Arendt


Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty. ~ Raisa Gorbachev


One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others. ~ Moliere


Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. ~ Georg Groddeck


Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. ~ H.G. Wells


The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor. ~Benjamin Franklin


God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. ~William Shakespeare


How seldom we weigh our neighbors in the same balance as ourselves. ~Thomas ? Kempis


Those whose conduct gives room for talk are always the first to attack their neighbors. ~Jean Baptiste Moli?re, Tartuffe


If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state. ~Leo Tolstoy


Few love to hear the sins they love to act. ~William Shakespeare


I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. ~Abraham Lincoln


One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. The bamboozle has captured us. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back. ~ Carl Sagan


Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort. ~ Jean Cocteau

 

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised. ~ Leo Tolstoy


If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has ~ Charles Caleb Colton


Early in life, I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose honest arrogance and have seen no occasion to change. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright


How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite. ~ Voltaire


You can only be called a hypocrite if you judge others first ~ Unknown


Pay attention to minute particulars. Take care of the little ones. Generalization and abstraction are The plea of the hypocrite, scoundrel, and knave. ~ William Blake


The natural man has a difficult time getting along in this world. Half the people think he is a scoundrel because he is not a hypocrite. ~ Ed Howe

 

Can't shut up. Every fukken bully I have ever fukken known can't shut up, 'cept when he's scared.

- Seth Bullock

 

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. ~ Abigail Van Buren


Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. ~ Margaret Chase Smith


During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable, even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism. ~ Howard Thurman

 

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~ Albert Schweitzer


There are no ordinary cats. ~ Colette


Time spent with cats is never wasted. ~ Colette


The smallest feline is a masterpiece. ~ Leonardo Da Vinci


Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. ~ Mark Twain


When I play with my cat, who knows whether she is not amusing herself with me more than I with her. ~ Montaigne


How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven. ~ Robert A. Heinlein


If you would know a man, observe how he treats a cat. ~ Robert A. Heinlein


Never try to outstubborn a cat. ~ Lazarus Long


You can't own a cat. The best you can do is be partners. ~ Sir Harry Swanson


Those who will play with cats must expect to be scratched. ~ Cervantes


What greater gift than the love of a cat? ~ Charles Dickens

 

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind. ~ Robert Collier


The final mystery is oneself ~ Oscar Wilde


One must really have suffered oneself to help others ~ Mother Teresa


True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others ~ Voltaire


To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive. ~ Dag Hammarskjold


To take upon oneself not punishment, but guilt - that alone would be godlike ~ Friedrich Nietzsche


To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness ~ Erich Fromm


To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities. ~ Dalai Lama


To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete ~ Epictetus

 

Geez.... Urban! Don't cry or anything.

-RO upon the Ole Miss one point win over #4 ranked Florida.

I would rather a ranked SEC team beat Georgia (my boys) than an unranked Pac 10 or ACC team. Bama came to play, they played hard, they played to win, and Georgia let inexperience eat of penalties. We just didn't deserve to win. If your team can't make it, pull for your conference. Unless it's Florida.

- RO, one minute or so left in the much anticipated Bama @ UGA game.

 

The first reaction to truth is hatred ~ Tertullian


What is evil? Killing is evil, lying is evil, slandering is evil, abuse is evil, gossip is evil: envy is evil, hatred is evil, to cling to false doctrine is evil; all these things are evil. And what is the root of evil? Desire is the root of evil, illusion is the root of evil. ~ Buddha


The evils of the body are, murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse, and idle talk; of the mind, covetousness, hatred, and error. ~ Buddha


Hatred is settled anger ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero


Never in this world can hatred be stilled by hatred; it will be stilled by non-hatred - this is the law Eternal ~ Buddha


The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life. ~ Dalai Lama


Hatred corrodes the vessel in which it is stored ~ Chinese Proverbs


Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated ~ George Bernard Shaw


Hatred is the madness of the heart ~ Lord Byron


My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred. ~ Albert Einstein

 

The true value of a human being can be found in the degree to which he has found liberation from the self. ~ Albert Einstein


Desire nothing for yourself, which you do not desire for others. ~ Spinoza


When you are content to be simply yourself and don?t compare or compete, everybody will respect you. ~ Lao-Tzu


He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.
~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.


Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile. ~ Albert Einstein

 

We stand, as it were, on the shore, and see multitudes of our fellow beings struggling in the water, stretching forth their arms, sinking, drowning, and we are powerless to assist them.~ Felix Adler


Suffering and joy teach us, if we allow them, how to make the leap of empathy, which transports us into the soul and heart of another person. ln those transparent moments we know other people's joys and sorrows, and we care about their concerns as if they were our own. ~ Fritz Williams


Deep unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state. ~ George Eliot


Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~ Helen Keller


All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals. ~ Peter Singer


It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ~ Samuel Johnson


The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. ~ Simone Weil


...when we finally know we are dying, and all other sentient beings are dying with us, we start to have a burning, almost heartbreaking sense of the fragility and preciousness of each moment and each being, and from this can grow a deep, clear, limitless compassion for all beings. ~ Sogyal Rinpoche


All violence is the result of people tricking themselves into believing that their pain derives from other people and that consequently those people deserve to be punished. ~ Marshall Rosenberg

 

All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace and justice are nonviolence...the final end of history. Those who abandon nonviolence have no sense of history. Rather they are bypassing history, freezing history, betraying history. ~ Andre Trocme


We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. ~ Bishop Desmond Tutu


Non-violence is hard work. It is the willingness to sacrifice. It is the patience to win. ~ Cesar Chavez


Non-violence is not inaction. It is not discussion. It is not for the timid or weak. ~ Cesar Chavez


The first principal of nonviolent action is that of noncooperation with everything humiliating. ~ Cesar Chavez


I would say that I'm a nonviolent soldier. In place of weapons of violence, you have to use your mind, your heart, your sense of humor, every faculty available to you...because no one has the right to take the life of another human being. ~ Joan Baez


Truth is my God. Nonviolence is my way of realizing Him. ~ Mohandas Gandhi