#ny

I defy you to agitate any fellow with a full stomach. ↗

— William Cobbett

#any #defy #fellow #full #i

A blanket could be used to say I’m sorry without using words, gestures, body language, facial expressions, or telepathy. I’ve always thought it was better to show than tell anyway, so I hope you can forgive me.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

Isn’t it funny? You forgive people before they ask forgiveness. Later they expect your apologize. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#expect #funny #forgiveness

We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival. ↗

— Theodore C. Sorensen

#clear #conventional #danger #force #genuine

I’ll name my firstborn child Squiblob, after his mother. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #mother #strange #funny

If the events of September 11, 2001, have proven anything, it's that the terrorists can attack us, but they can't take away what makes us American -- our freedom, our liberty, our civil rights. No, only Attorney General John Ashcroft can do that. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#civil-rights #funny #patriot-act #freedom

There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a princess in a fairy tale, waiting at the top of her tower for someone to ride up and rescue her. Not that traditional princess behavior was like Isabelle at all. Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#funny #freedom

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#constitution #interfere #liberties #maintained #must

I've had a blessed career, and that has been acknowledged in many ways over the years. ↗

— Jimmy Nail

#been #blessed #career #had #i

A city which belongs to just one man is no true city ↗

— Sophocles

#tyranny #freedom