Famous Quotes . . .

[MadamMack]

 

[Dana Jean]

"A parent is only as happy as their saddest child."

Dr. Phil

 

[Dana Jean]

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Cardinal Richelieu

 

[shaitan]

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer

 

[Checkman]

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
― Dorothy Parker

 

[Checkman]

“Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.”
― Berkeley Breathed

 

[Checkman]

“No animal should ever jump up on the dining room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.”
― Fran Lebowitz

 

[Checkman]

“First the doctor told me the good news: I was going to have a disease named after me.”
― Steve Martin

 

[Checkman]

“I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman where the Self Help section was. She said if she told me it would defeat the purpose.”
― Dennis Miller

 

[Checkman]

“Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?"

"I give."

"You get someone who stays up all night torturing himself mentally over the question of whether or not there's a dog.”
― David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

 

[Checkman]

“I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me.”
― Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

 

[Checkman]

“It's like this with us baby. We're coppers and everybody hates our guts....nothing we do is right, not ever. If we get a confession we beat it out of a guy, they say, and some shyster lawyer calls us Gestapo.”
― Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister

 

[Checkman]

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

 

[Checkman]

“You know that look that women get when they want to have sex? Me neither.”
― Steve Martin

 

[ghost19]

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Cardinal Richelieu

I really like that one DJ. Nice find.

 

[Checkman]

“My father (Theodore Roosevelt) always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral,
the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.”
― Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

 

[ghost19]

"Y'know what I think? Don't really matter what I think. Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that $h!t just goes right out the window."

Delta Force Operator

 

[Dana Jean]

I really like that one DJ. Nice find.

Yeah, it's definitely food for thought.

 

[Checkman]

“When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.”
― Raymond Chandler

 

[Checkman]

“Police business is a hell of a problem. It’s a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there’s nothing in it to attract the highest type of men. So we have to work with what we get...”
― Raymond Chandler, The Lady in the Lake

I love this quote. But I worry if I'm being unfaithful to my profession. Shouldn't I be offended?