Quote of the Day

[coyote101]

"It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one." - George Washington

[coyote101]

"Very few of us are what we seem." - Agatha Christie

[coyote101]

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain

[Hawks Feather]

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain

Was this a prediction Mr. Twain made about the 2012 election - long before it happened?

Jerry

[Okanagan]

"It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled." - Mark Twain

It is amazing how true that is, even with really intelligent people, or maybe especially with really intelligent people.  Over the years I have pointed out two financial scams that friends of mine in the leadership of nonprofit organizations have believed and put money into and about that time asked me what I thought of the deal.  I remember sitting there in a board meeting on one of those and not wanting to reply as they described the glowing opportunity.  In both cases my first words in response were, "It's a scam."  In both cases it damaged the friendship-- especially when time proved the deals to be hoaxes.

Once people are invested emotionally in believing something, they don't want to hear that they have been fooled.  Unless the stakes are high and the damage great, do NOT tell people they have been taken.

[coyote101]

"How great in number are the little minded men." - Plautus

[coyote101]

"Owning a handgun doesn't make you armed any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician." - Jeff Cooper

[FinsnFur]

  I like that one

[coyote101]

"Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike." - Alexander Hamilton

[coyote101]

"I liked things better when I didn't understand them." - Bill Watterson

[coyote101]

"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away." - Unknown

[coyote101]

"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." - Aesop

[KySongDog]

"The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by doing so."
--- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), April 11, 1942, quoted in Hitlers Tischegesprache Im Fuhrerhauptquartier 1941-1942.

[coyote101]

"The supposed quietude of a good man allures the ruffian; while on the other hand arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as property. The same balance would be preserved were all the world destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside … Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them." - Thomas Paine

[coyote101]

"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. " - Noah Webster

[coyote101]

"The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." - Edmund Burke

[coyote101]

"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree." - Roy L. Smith

[coyote101]

“We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.” - Thomas Paine

[coyote101]

"A good listener is usually thinking about something else." - Kin Hubbard

[coyote101]

"Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God." - Benjamin Franklin