Wisdom..I Hope

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln


You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
- Abraham Lincoln


"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have" -- Thomas Jefferson


Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

The late Dr. Adrian Rogers, 1931 – 2005

"You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The government cannot give to anybody anything that the government does not first take from somebody else. When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it.""Love is among the most pernicious and contagious of diseases. We who are afflicted with it can be detected by anyone. Dark circles under our eyes show that we never sleep, kept awake night after night by embraces or their absence. We suffer from devastating fevers and have an irresistible urge to say stupid things.

"Love can be induced by dropping a pinch of loveme with feigned casualness into a cup of coffee or soup, or a drink. It can induced by not prevented. Holy water does not prevent it, nor ground up host, and a clove of garlic is absolutely useless. Love is deaf to the divine Word and to witches spells. No government decree has any power over it nor can any potion prevent it, although women in the market hawk infallible brews complete with guarantees."

--Eduardo Galeano in the Book of Embraces


'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it,'
Voltaire may not have said this, but he believed these words in action and in all the speeches he made . He lived from 1694-1778

God grant met the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
- H. L. Mencken