Wednesday, January 27, 2016

APOLITICAL APHORISMS

As requests for money increase in fury, and the political scene explodes before our eyes, I thought these Apolitical aphorisms would be a bit of fun. Especially fun for me since I discovered yesterday, I've been the victim of on-line fraud. More on that as I sort through several critical projects. The aphorisms were sent to me in an email and have been around for a longtime. Hope you enjoy them.

If God wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
~Jay Leno~
 The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
~Henry Cate, VII~
 We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
~Aesop~
 If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these Electionspeeches, there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven.
~Will Rogers~ 
 Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
~Nikita Khrushchev~
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become Prime Minister or Premier; I'm beginning to believe it.
~Clarence Darrow~
Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you.
~Author unknown~
Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel.
~John Quinton~
 Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~Oscar Ameringer~
 I offer my opponents a bargain: if they will stop telling lies about us, I will stop telling the truth about them.
~Adlai Stevenson, campaign speech, 1952~
 A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
~ Tex Guinan~
 I have come to the conclusion that politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
~Charles de Gaulle~
 Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
~Doug Larson~
 There ought to be one day -- just one -- when there is open season on senators.
~Will Rogers~

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