Manx Club

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
~Henry David Thoreau~

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
   ~Thomas Jefferson~

" A Buggy Buddy without a Buggy is a sad Buggy Buddy "
  by Old Tow'd

"The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys."
   ~Thomas Jefferson~

"Click for further information about this quotation" As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Henry David Thoreau

"I drank what?"



Socrates



"Late worms don't get eaten by the early bird."



Anonymous



--louis

"The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy."

   ~Benjamin Franklin~

"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
     ~Thomas Paine~

Government may be a necessary evil, however, it's absence would result in anarchy, and that is not an option.

“Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men.”

Proposed 28th Amendment to the United States Constitution

"Congress shall make no law that applies to the citizens of the United States that does not apply
equally to the Senators and/or Representatives; and, Congress shall make no law that applies to the Senators and/or Representatives that does not apply equally to the citizens of the United States

An onion can make people cry, but there has never been
a vegetable invented to make them laugh.

Will Rogers

Oh Ed, you just gave away your secret stash of quotes! 

“Consider the misfortunes of others, and you will be the better able to bear
your own.”
     ~author unknown~