Wise Sayings...or Not

[docw1]

“Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?”
― Andrew Clements

 

[Larry Fine]

“Never, never, never give in!”
― Winston S. Churchill

 

[Fawlty]

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”
― Helen Keller

 

[docw1]

"Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until they speak." — Steven Wright

 

[Fawlty]

“He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
This does not apply to Secondary Master Cylinders.

 

[Daboo]

“As government expands, liberty contracts.”
― Ronald Reagan

 

[docw1]

"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." — Herm Albright

 

[Fawlty]

“Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul.”
― Walt Whitman

 

[docw1]

And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.--Mitch Albom,

 

[Fawlty]

“I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.”
― Hippolyte Taine

 

[Daboo]

“God bless us, every one!” – Tiny Tim

 

[docw1]

"When one door closes, another opens. Or you can open the closed door. That's how doors work." — Unknown

 

[Fawlty]

“An acquaintance merely enjoys your company, a fair-weather companion flatters when all is well, a true friend has your best interests at heart and the pluck to tell you what you need to hear.”
― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

 

[Mykllee]

"When you seek a new path to truth, you must expect to find it blocked by expert opinion."
Albert J. Guerard

 

[Daboo]

Just read this on Twitchy.

C. S. Lewis foretold the coming of the California bureaucrat.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

 

[docw1]

“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”
― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade

 

[Fawlty]

“When in doubt, choose to live.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

 

[docw1]

"Always forgive your enemies — nothing annoys them so much." — Oscar Wilde

 

[Fawlty]

“Life doesn't make any sense, and we all pretend it does. Comedy's job is to point out that it doesn't make sense, and that it doesn't make much difference anyway.”
― Eric Idle

 

[Daboo]

@Fawlty - Your quote made me immediately think of this.

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