Post your favorite truisms

[Paragon]

"No matter what a stripper tells you, there's no sex in The Champagne Room. None. Oh, there's champagne in The Champagne Room -- but you don't want champagne; you want sex...and there's no sex in The Champagne Room."

"If a woman tells you she's 20, and looks 16, she's 12. If she tells you she's 26, and looks 26, she's damn near 40."

-- Chris Rock, "No Sex (in the Champagne Room)"

[Don_G]

1. Rethug "Golden Rule"

The man with the gold makes the rules.

[ewagner]

2. The one I kept on the

"pullout" on my desk when I was Mayor.

There are only two irrefutable truths in life:

1. There is only one God.
2. I am not him.

[SiobhanClancy]

3. A couple...

Dogs have owners. Cats have staff.

Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

[kainah]

4. Life isn't fair n/t

[Parche]

5. USS Parche

"Damn the torpedoes"

[DuctapeFatwa]

6. First they laugh at you, then they ignore you, then they fight with you

then you win

Mohandas K. Gandhi

[Character Assassin]

7. This, and only this....

[WilliamPitt]

8. Jesus saves

Gretsky scores.

Bush sucks.

[CO Liberal]

9. There Are Two Types of People In The World

Those who divide people into two groups.

And those who don't.

:-)

[Padraig18]

10. Irish proverb

"Few know the worth of water 'til the well runs dry." :)

[Robb]

11. We call them "Robb's Rules" at home

Sing along if you know them already:

#2: "First, assume most people are idiots, and the rest will just behave like they are."

#1: "Ain't nothing so good, a little bacon won't make it better."

(Sub-rule to Rule #1: "There is no bad bacon, only better bacon.")

[RandomKoolzip]

12. "Never get off the boat. Goddamn right..."

Martin Sheen in Apocalypse Now.

[Richardo]

13. Good one!

"Absolutely god damn right..."

plus:

"The shit in Vietnam came down so fast you needed wings to stay above it."

[WilliamPitt]

14. ...Chef said it first

:)

[dolo amber]

20. Eh-hem...

*Points politely to sig line*... ;)

[Character Assassin]

15. For Art Rock bands, the 4th album means it's time for the masterpiece

Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
Yes: Fragile
Kansas: Leftoverture

Need I go on?

[SOteric]

16. If you're dumb...

surround yourself with smart people. If you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.

Aaron Sorkin, "Sports Night"

[SoCalDem]

17. no good deed goes unpunished..n/t

:)

[OneBlueSky]

18. from Louis Armstrong . . .

"There's some people, if they don't know, you can't tell 'em."

[mitchum]

19. "Nothing hurts when you're winning" Joe Namath

[LanternWaste]

21. "No woman is worth dying for. Killing for...maybe. But not dying for."

"No woman is worth dying for. Killing for...maybe. But not dying for."

Can't remember the name of the movie- Michael Keaton comedy/gangster flick came out about 85 or 86.