#sk

In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#get #sheep #skin #stop #taxes

The statesman shears the sheep; the politician skins them. ↗

— Austin O'Malley

#shears #sheep #skins #statesman #them

And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#basketball #basketball player #because #business #else

My father made me who I am. He gave me a basketball and told me to play with the ball, sleep with the ball, dream with the ball. Just don't take it to school. I used it as a pillow, and it never gave me a stiff neck. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#ball #basketball #dream #father #gave

David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#asked #chain #code #could #david

Nobody's going to tell me how to be different, so stop asking me. Stop asking me what two-plus-two is. Everybody knows two-plus-two is five. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#be different #different #everybody #five #going

Someday I might have to put down a basketball and have a regular 9-to-5 like everybody else. ↗

— Shaquille O'Neal

#down #else #everybody #everybody else #i

Dan Rather is guilty of not being skeptical enough about a story that was politically loaded. ↗

— Bill O'Reilly

#being #dan #dan rather #enough #guilty

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#car #car keys #giving #keys #like

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#came #children #going #growing #growing up