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[leanid]

<p>Lincoln - When a visiting Englishman saw the president shining his boots he said:</p>

<p>“Mr. Lincoln, in England a gentleman does not polish his own boots”</p>

<p>Honest Abe shot back: “Then whose boots does he polish?”</p>

[tsdad]

<p>Once at a social gathering, Gladstone said to Disraeli, “I predict, Sir, that you will die either by hanging or of some vile disease”. Disraeli replied, “That all depends, sir, upon whether I embrace your principles or your mistress.”</p>

[leanid]

<p>dstark - What great wit!</p>

<p>A fellow woman parliamentarian who did not get along with Churchill, told him:
“Sir, if you were my husband I would put poison in your coffee!” He replied: “Madam, if you were my wife I would drink it.”</p>

[leanid]

<p>dstark - What great wit!</p>

<p>Oops, sorry, tsdad that was meant for you!</p>

[thinkandspeak]

<p>“I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are nothing like your Christ.” -Mohandas Karamchand Ghandi</p>

[DRJ4]

<p>Some Mark Twain-isms:</p>

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Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.</p>

<p>Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.</p>

<p>I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won’t.</p>

<p>I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

And a special one for those who desperately want President George W. Bush to admit he made a mistake:</p>

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Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.

<a href=“Mark Twain/[ Quotes - The Quotations Page”>Mark Twain/ Quotes - The Quotations Page;

[ellemenope]

<p>I just used it recently on CC, but it is one of my favorites:</p>

<p>“Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.” Oscar Wilde</p>

[berurah]

<p>DRJ4~</p>

<p>You forgot one of my FAVORITE Mark Twain quotes…one of my son’s best friends is a HUGE Mark Twain fan, and I bought him a t-shirt with this quote on it:</p>

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@Mark Twain

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

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<p>;)</p>

<p>~berurah</p>

[DRJ4]

<p>Good one, Berurah. Here’s another American, [Will</a> Rogers](<a href=“Will Rogers]Will Quotes - The Quotations Page”>Will Rogers Quotes - The Quotations Page):</p>

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We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.</p>

<p>I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.</p>

<p>I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.</p>

<p>Communism is like prohibition, it’s a good idea but it won’t work.</p>

<p>I bet you if I had met him [Trotsky] and had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I never yet met a man that I didn’t like.

We don’t often see the full text of the “never met a man I didn’t like” quote, do we?</p>

[leanid]

<p>Great quotes all!</p>

<p>Another from Twain: “Always do the right thing, you’ll please some people and astonish the rest.”</p>

[FountainSiren]

<p>For the misogynists amongst us:

You never really know a woman until you meet her in court.
—Norman Mailer

For the Democratic hopefuls in 2006:

Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
—Edmund Burke

For the ‘sincere’ aficionados of “diversity”:

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
—William F Buckley Jr.

For the authors amongst us (you know who you are):

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
—Montesquieu

For Don Rumsfeld:

Everybody’s got plans…until they get hit.
—Mike Tyson

For the down-n-out ‘poets’ amongst us:

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
—Charles Bukowski

For the do-gooder/narcissist:

Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm—but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
—T. S. Eliot

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[berurah]

<p>FS~</p>

<p>Thanks, some of those are AWESOME!!</p>

<p>DRJ4~</p>

<p>The Mark Twain school board quote has a great deal of significance for some of us in Kansas… <em>lol</em> :D</p>

[leanid]

<p>Goods ones, FS!</p>

<p>A campaingning JFK said to an upper mid-west crowd on a wintry day: “As the cow said to the farmer - ‘Thanks for a warm hand on a cold day.’.”</p>

[leanid]

<p>George Bernard Shaw once asked a woman if she would go to bed with him for one million dollars. She thought about it and said she would. He then asked if she would do the same for 5 dollars, to which she indignantly replied: “What do you think I am, sir?!” He said: “We have already established that, madam, I am now attempting to set a price”.</p>