Quote the Kitty

I like to change my "tautology message every day, and some of them are just too good to lose forever so I decided to begin archiving them here. Enjoy!

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"My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular." - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. - H. L. Mencken

"Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad." - Norm Papernick

"New Rule: I'm not impressed by what college your kid is going to. George Bush went to Yale. The End." -Bill Maher

"The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein

"I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education." - Wilson Mizner

"Fire will sober your ass up real quick." - Richard Pryor

"People may surprise you with unexpected kindness. Dogs have a depth of loyalty that often we seem unworthy of. But the love of a cat is a blessing, a privilege in this world." - Kinky Friedman

"Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon." - Susan Ertz

"A cult is a religion with no political power." - Tom Wolfe

"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under control." - Denis Diderot, Supplement to Bougainville's 'Voyage,' 1796

"I would rather someone was wrapped in the Constitution burning the flag than wrapped in the flag burning the Constitution." - Moxiegrrrl

"Those who have experienced despair never have cold hearts." - anonymous Chinese immigrant

"We may extend our dominion over the whole continent...but be assured it will be at the price of our free institutions." - Rep. William Waters Boyce

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"Top Ten Things I Have Learned In The Last 24 Years. #5: The only thing funnier than a horny president is an idiot president." - David Letterman

"If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn to do it?" - Joan Baez

"You know what they say, if Dick Cheney comes out of his hole and shoots an old man in the face, it's six more weeks of winter." --Jimmy Kimmel

"I do believe in living each day like it was my last. That's why I never have any clean clothes, for honestly, who bothers to do laundry on your last day?" -anon

"Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering." -- R. Buckminster Fuller

"Them who dance are considered insane by them who can't hear the music." - George Carlin

"I won't fight in a war started by those who wouldn't fight in a war." - Sign at the United for Peace and Justice March, 1-27-07, in Washington, D.C.

"Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."—Denis Diderot (1713-1784)

"In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell

"When you have a society that is addicted to lawyers, addicted to credit, addicted to stupidity, with nowhere to go and nobody to sell it to, what do you call that?" - Frank Zappa, 1992

"The insurance companies can still have fire insurance and car insurance but there's no room for them in individual health insurance because we're human beings, not automobiles." - Michael Moore

"Home schooling is to education what amputation is to weight loss." - Mike Stanfill

"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave."
- William Drummond

"America used to be the Great Melting Pot, but it's slowly becoming the Great TV Dinner where the peas must be kept separate from the mashed potatoes." - Mike Stanfill

"Let's use waterboarding techniques on anyone who says waterboarding isn't torture. I have a funny hunch they might change their minds... real quick. " - Mike Stanfill

"We used to say 'It's the economy, stupid'. Well, this is Stupid's Economy, and it's time to get smart again." - Devilstower, dailykos.com

"If we all had wings there would be no borders, there would be no countries, there would be no wars. We would, however, occasionally peck each other's eyes out.” - Mike Stanfill