Marist Brothers Darlinghurst OBU - Humour
The best medicine ~ laughter
compliments of Peter Clarke LC'65:
In my many years I have come to a
conclusion that one useless man is a shame, and two or more is a
government.
John
Adams
If you don't read the newspaper you
are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.
(how true is that!!!)
Mark Twain
Suppose you were an idiot. And
suppose you were a member of government. But then I repeat
myself.
Mark Twain
I contend that for a
nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a
bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.
Winston
Churchill
A government which robs Peter to
pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George
Bernard Shaw
Foreign aid might be
defined as a transfer of money from poor people in rich countries
to rich people in poor countries.
Douglas Casey, Classmate of Bill Clinton at Georgetown
University
Giving money and power to
government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
P.J.
O'Rourke, Civil Libertarian
Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavours to
live at the expense of everybody else.
Frederic
Bastiat, French economist(1801-1850)
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the
facts.
Will Rogers
If you think health care is
expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free!
P.J.
O'Rourke
In general, the art of government consists
of taking as much money as possible from one party of the citizens to
give to the other.
Voltaire (1764)
Just because you do not
take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an
interest in you!
Pericles (430 B.C.)
No man's life,
liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
Mark
Twain (1866)
Talk is cheap...except when
government does it.
Anonymous
The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a
happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the other.
Ronald
Reagan
The only difference between a tax
man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.
Mark
Twain
What this country needs are more
unemployed politicians.
Edward
Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
A
government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough
to take everything you have.
Thomas
Jefferson
We hang the petty thieves and
appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop