Dr Wingnut

Category: Quotations

  • Thanks for being tired

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    People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true.  I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day.  I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then.  I…

  • Annus Horribilis

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    A second flood, a simple famine,Plagues of locusts everywhere,Or a cataclysmic earthquake,I’d accept with some despair.But no, You sent us Congress!Good God, Sir, was that fair?John Adams’ prayer, from the movie “1776”With the prospect of a influenza outbreak of pandemic proportions, major earthquakes, tsunami’s and hurricane’s in the last year; you begin to wonder if…

  • Laughter

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    The most useless day of all is that in which we have not laughed.Sebastien R.N. Chamfort

  • Property

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    Property has its duties as well as its rights.Thomas Drummond

  • Who’s correct?

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    The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell

  • Playing it safe

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    Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.Sam Brown

  • Guidance

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    Let us move on, and step out boldly, though it be into the night, and we can scarcely see the way.  A Higher Intelligence than the mortal sees the road before us.  We do not have to strive for good, but only to go forward and possess it.  Good awaits us at every step.Charles B.…