Sayings & Quotes

[Magoo]

i dont smoke weed anymore
i dont smoke any less, but not more

[mike]

"The more dope you smoke
The bigger the dope you become"
 
  courtesy of my uncle way back

My experience is people who drink a lot of piss
repeat the same stories. "Yeah mate you have told 
me that before" but they just keep continuing lollol.

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i dont smoke weed anymore
i dont smoke any less, but not more

[Magoo]

i loath pissheads and drunks. talking to a drunk is like talking to a potato.
yes alcoholism is a disease, i'll drink to that but ffs
its not like catching lupus or syphilis or suchlike

why is not having a drink something you have to explain?
when i dont have tomato sauce on my chips no one cares
but when i refuse a drink it requires further explanation.
weird

[mike]

i loath pissheads and drunks. talking to a drunk is like talking to a potato.
yes alcoholism is a disease, i'll drink to that but ffs
its not like catching lupus or syphilis or suchlike

why is not having a drink something you have to explain?
when i dont have tomato sauce on my chips no one cares
but when i refuse a drink it requires further explanation.
weird

Yeah, I don't care what a person's drug of choice is but don't pass judgement on me for having a J while sipping back on your ingrained socially acceptable drug called
alcohol.
Not running top fuel dragsters on nature's weed.

[Lilith7]

“As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.”
J.K. Rowling.

“Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”
Oprah Winfrey


"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart."
Jonathan Swift


"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
Epictetus

"Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of filling a vacuum, it makes one."
Benjamin Franklin

"Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
Steve Jobs

"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more. "
Charles Caleb Colton



"If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed."
Edmund Burke


"Capitalism is against the things I believe in--democracy, freedom of choice, fairness. It’s not about any of those things now. It’s about protecting the wealthy and legalising greed."
Michael Moore

[Lilith7]

"From the beginning, a procession of the poor, the weak, the unfit have gone through our jails & prisons & to their deaths. They have been victims. Crime & poverty & ignorance have gone hand in hand. When our law makers realise this, they will stop legislating more punishment & go after causes."
Clarence Darrow.


"There is no trust more sacred than the one the world holds with children. There is no duty more important than ensuring that their rights are respected, that their welfare is protected, that their lives are free from fear and want and that they can grow up in peace."
Kofi Annan

"To criticize one’s country is to do it a service and pay it a compliment. It is a service because it may spur the country to do better than it is doing; it is a compliment because it evidences a belief that a country can do better than it is doing. In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste but its effect, not how it makes people feel in the moment but how it makes them feel in the long run. Criticism, in short, is more than a right; it is an act of patriotism, a higher form of patriotism, I believe, than the familiar rituals of national adulation.”
Senator J William Fulbright, 1964.



"If we could look into each other’s hearts, and understand the unique challenges each of us faces, I think we would treat each other much more gently, with more love, patience, tolerance and care."
Marvin J. Ashton.

“Don’t regret knowing the People who come into your life.
Good People give you happiness, Bad ones give you experience,
the worst ones give you lessons and The Best Ones give you Memories.”
Anon

"The erosion of democracy is gradual. It’s a bit like when you're out walking in the late afternoon & your mind wanders, then you realise the sun's gone down & you're walking in the dark.
Right now, we have this sunny, friendly blur of John Key; cracking jokes, posing with the all blacks, reassuring us he is relaxed.
Behind that, the shadows are lengthening. In them, we can dimly see businesses buying access to Ministers, corporations buying laws & silencing critics. Intelligence agencies, smearing political opponents."
Rod Donald

[Lilith7]

“In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.”
John Churton Collins


"The older I get, the less I care about what people think of me.
Therefore, the older I get, the more I enjoy life."
Anon


THE VALUE OF A SMILE

"A smile costs nothing, but it gives much. It reaches those who receive without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory lasts a lifetime. No one is so rich or mighty that one can get along without it, and no one is so poor that one can be made richer by it. A smile creates happiness in the home, fosters goodwill in business, and is the countersign of friendship. It brings rest to the weary, cheer to the discouraged. A smile is sunshine to the sad, and is nature's best antidote for trouble.

Yet, it cannot be bought, begged, borrowed or stolen, for it is no value to anyone until it is given away. Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give."


"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably."
Immanuel Kant

'I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.'
Voltaire


“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
Walter Cronkite


"Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken."
Oscar Wilde

[Lilith7]

'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.'
George Orwell


'To destroy this invisible government, to dissolve the unholy alliance between corrupt business & corrupt politics, is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.'
Theodore Roosevelt.


'You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.'
Buckminster Fuller

'Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle. And the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases from being shared.'
Anon


Attributed to Frederick Menger

“If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything”

'All war is a symptom of man’s failure as a thinking animal.'
John Steinbeck

[Lilith7]

'I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.'
Jane Austen


'Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?'
Germaine Greer

'I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or someone else’s ignorance.'
Bell Hooks


'After all those years as a woman, hearing ‘not thin enough, not pretty enough, not smart enough, not this enough, not that enough,’ I woke up one morning & thought
‘I AM ENOUGH.’
Anna Quindlen

‘I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We are taught that silence would save us, BUT IT WON’T.’
Audre Lorde

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves"
Confucius

‘We are the granddaughters of the witches you weren’t able to burn.’
Anon
Anon

[Lilith7]

Winston Churchill, when informed that The Lord Privy Seal had summoned him replied, "Tell The Lord Privy Seal that I am sealed in the privy and can only deal with one shit at a time".


'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.'
Martin Luther King


'It is now highly feasible to take care of everybody on earth at a higher standard of living than any have ever known. It no longer has to be you or me. Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete. It is a matter of converting the high technology from weaponry to livingry.'
Buckminster Fuller


“Pro-life” is simply a philosophy in which the only life worth saving is the one that can be saved by punishing a woman.'
anon

'My goal in life is to be as good a person as my dog thinks I am.'
Anon

'Poverty is not a ‘culture’ or a character defect; it is a shortage of money. And that shortage arises from grievously inadequate pay, aggravated by constant humiliation & stress, as well as outright predation from employers, credit companies & loan sharks.'
(slightly abridged)
Barbara Ehrenreich

'Money is the loot of all weevils.'
Anon

'Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed.'
Mahatma Gandhi


'You have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it & give intelligently.'
J. K. Rowling

[Lilith7]

'Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.'
John F Kennedy


"We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”
Albert Einstein

" I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. "
Michelangelo



“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
 E. F. Schumacher

[Lilith7]

"Of all the things I've lost, I miss my mind the most"
Anon


" War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. "
Ambrose Bierce

'The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation & the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated.'
Martin Luther King

“Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.”
Martin Luther King Jr.


“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
Martin Luther King Jr.

'Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty & truth & compassion against injustice & greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.'
William Faulkner

[an amniote]

"I have thought of you often these past few days because you loved our coast. We have had a real storm with high winds and rain blown horizontally. The rains were late this year, but plentiful now, and the spring wildflowers are especially fine - [gives some names].

Here are a few of them - better than words to say I miss you both."

-- Edward Weston, to friends. Who wouldn't love to receive a letter like this?

[Lilith7]

"I have thought of you often these past few days because you loved our coast. We have had a real storm with high winds and rain blown horizontally. The rains were late this year, but plentiful now, and the spring wildflowers are especially fine - [gives some names].

Here are a few of them - better than words to say I miss you both."

-- Edward Weston, to friends. Who wouldn't love to receive a letter like this?

[an amniote]

"Friends are people who know you well, but like you anyway."

-- Anon.

[Lilith7]

"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell--- Their hearts in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly insufficient organ."
W. Somerset Maugham

"Women are the one group which grows more radical with age."
Gloria Steinem

“These money men are strange human beings. They proclaim vision & innovation, but seem unable to imagine what their fellow man might be feeling. Poverty & powerlessness are beyond their ken. If the ability to walk in your fellow man’s footsteps is a barometer of civilisation, then these people are barbarians.”
Greg McGee.


'To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.'
Thomas Paine



“Just look at us. Everything is backwards, everything is upside down. Doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, psychiatrists destroy minds, scientists destroy truth, major media destroys information, religions destroy spirituality and governments destroy freedom.”

Michael Ellner



"If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work & enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire."
George Monbiot

[Lilith7]

'There are 18,600,000 vacant homes in the USA. That’s enough for every homeless person to have six.'
Anon

'There is an expiry date on blaming your parents for steering you in the wrong direction; the moment you are old enough to take the wheel responsibility lies with you.'
J.K. Rowling


'Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn’t.'
Jeff Bridges.


'The women I admire did not get that way because shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong & they handled it. They handled it in a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.'
Melissa Gilbert


'A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humour, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.'
Jessamyn West


'A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.'
Jessamyn West


'We can love an honest rogue, but what is more offensive than a false saint?'
Jessamyn West


"‘WHAT THEN?
When our last asset is sold
When every public service is outsourced to Serco
When every State House is sold to Australia
When every farm is owned by China
When every house belongs to someone overseas
When every school is privately run
When every New Zealander is required to have private health care
When Multi-Nationals can use the TPPA to dictate our laws....
What flag should we fly then?"
Bryan Bruce

[Lilith7]

"There will come a time when the Earth grows sick and ... a tribe will gather from all the cultures of the world who believe in deeds not words ... they will be known as the Warriors of the Rainbow."
The Cree prophecy behind the Rainbow Warrior.

'Some people are so poor, all they have is money.'
Anon


'Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.'
Francis Bacon


“So the unwanting soul
sees what's hidden,
and the ever-wanting soul
sees only what it wants.”
Lao Tzu

'Greed's worst point is its ingratitude. '
Seneca

'Let us wage a moral and political war against the billionaires and corporate leaders, on Wall Street and elsewhere, whose policies and greed are destroying the middle class of America.'
Bernie Sanders


'Greed is not a financial issue. It's a heart issue.'
Andy Stanley

'We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.'
Stephen Hawking

[Lilith7]

'If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.'
Jacques Yves Cousteau

“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
Robert A. Heinlein


“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.”
August Strindberg


“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
Mark Twain

'Creativity is intelligence having fun.'
Einstein.


'Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.'
Anon

'Capitalism will never fail because socialism will always be there to bail it out.'
Ralph Nader

'It’s pretty ironic that the so called ‘least advantaged’ people are the ones taking the lead in trying to protect all of us, while the richest & most powerful among us are the ones who are trying to drive the society to destruction.'
Noam Chomsky

[gr8dadof2]

i loath pissheads and drunks. talking to a drunk is like talking to a potato.
yes alcoholism is a disease, i'll drink to that but ffs
its not like catching lupus or syphilis or suchlike

why is not having a drink something you have to explain?
when i dont have tomato sauce on my chips no one cares
but when i refuse a drink it requires further explanation.
weird

Well. If you usually drink and are a regular drinker then one day you decide not to have a drink, then I can see why some people would think something is up and need an explanation.
If you drink very occasionally and then decide not to have a drink one day then it is not so noticeable because you don't drink much and so would be like the chips and sauce scenario