THE OFFICIAL: Quote of the Day!!! #2

[Carolynn]

"God might have created man before woman, but there's always a rough draft before the masterpiece"!!

Bumper Sticker on a car from New York passing throught Oklahoma

[Marcie C.]

Take life with a pinch of salt...................a slice of lemon ....and a shot of Tequila

[Carolynn]

"Barack Obama is the worst president in history. And my generation will inherit a weakened country. Drug cartels in Mexico, tax cartels in D.C. What's happened to America? I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place."
-- Ben Quayle, son of Dan Quayle, running for Congress in AZ

He sounds as silly as his father. After all, everyone knows that you don't spell Quail with a Y.

[Carolynn]

"We're not leaving Afghanistan prematurely. In fact, we're not ever leaving at all."
-- Defense Secretary Robert Gates

Uhmmmm, WOW, uhmmm, lemme see now, not leaving ever?

[Carolynn]

"You send another goon to my daughter's house and I'll take you out, buddy."
-- NY gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino to reporter

Sounds like a Mafioso slipping out the closet.

[Carolynn]

"Why, if evolution really worked, do moms only have two hands?" - Milton Berle

[Carolynn]

A pessimist is one who feels bad when he feels good for fear he'll feel worse when he feels better. -M. Twain

[Susan]

It's easier to get forgiveness than permission - Grace Hopper

One interesting lady, a Rear Admiral in the US Navy and a pioneer computer programmer. She may have invented the computer 'bug' after a moth was found in a relay of Mk II computer at Harvard in 1947. A picture of said bug is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:H96566k.jpg

[Carolynn]

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time” -

Friedrich Nietzsche

[Susan]

I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.

Dorothy Parker; US author, humorist, poet, & wit (1893 - 1967)

[Gillian]

I have been wrestling with God, and I finally think that I have Him right where He wants me!

[Ginny Jones]

Here is one of my favourites!

Jean Harlow ( a Hollywood starlet) kept calling Margot Asquith by her first name. Unfortunately she insisted on sounding the "t". Margot tolerated this for a while and then eventually said

"No, no Jean. The T is silent, as in Harlow!"


Smack down!

Hugs Ginny x

[Paulette]

"Barack Obama is the worst president in history. And my generation will inherit a weakened country. Drug cartels in Mexico, tax cartels in D.C. What's happened to America? I love Arizona. I was raised right. Somebody has to go to Washington and knock the hell out of the place."
-- Ben Quayle, son of Dan Quayle, running for Congress in AZ

Which requires that I print my most popular bumper sticker here.

~ ANOTHER COMMUNIST FOR QUAYLE ~


I was doing printing for a number of anti-war groups in L.A. at the time, and the ex-pat South American crowd went nuts over it. Must have printed and given away four or five thousand.

[Anthony Simon]

"Have you got the whalebone petticoats among you yet? A woman may hide a moderate gallant under them." Jonathan Swift quoted in Courtiers by Lucy Worsley

[Paula G]

Sometimes I will do anything to avoid starting work, I have just been browsing through all the blogs I regularly read and noticed that Karin has a quote of the day box, today's quote is from Quentin Crisp
"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style"

I was reminded of the other version of this

"If at first you don't succeed, don't try sky diving"
Not sure who came up with this but it as stuck in my mind....what is left of it