Holes of the World

Refuse to sink. - Kristi Welch

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

What Washington needs is adult supervision. - Barack Obama

Defendit numerus: There is safety in numbers. - Unknown

In Congress, it's all pork, all the time. - Jim Cooper

Talk is cheap... except when Congress does it. - Unknown

If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog. - Harry S Truman

Care shouldn't start in the emergency room. - James Douglas

Safety is a cheap and effective insurance policy. - Unknown

I had to sink my yacht to make the guests go home. - F Scott Fitzgerald

Never invest emergency savings in the stock market. - Suze Orman

The state of Washington calls tips 'wages.' - Tom Douglas

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Coward: One who, in a perilous emergency, thinks with his legs. - Ambrose Bierce

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

You can lead a man to Congress, but you can't make him think. - Milton Berle

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

Shells sink,
Dreams float,
Life's good
On our boat. - Jimmy Buffet

An entire ocean can't sink a ship unless it allows the water inside. - Donna Smith

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. - Natalie Goldberg

When they asked George Washington for his ID, he just took out a quarter. - Steven Wright

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. - William E. Simon

I threw the kitchen sink at him, but he went to the bathroom and got his tub. - Andy Roddick

Life is like stepping onto a boat which is about to sail out to sea and sink. - Shunryi Suzuki-roshi

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop. - P.J. O'Rourke

There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth. - Charles Dickens

If we tried to sink the past beneath our feet, be sure the future would not stand it. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Inaction will cause a man to sink into the slough of despond and vanish without a trace. - Farley Mowat

We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress. - Will Rogers

If I was the governor of New Jersey, the George Washington Bridge would not have been shut. - Donald Trump

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary? - Marion Barry

If you're not paying for it through the health plan, you pay for it in the emergency room. - David Lehman

Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But then I repeat myself. - Mark Twain

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be in my bath, and she'd come in and sink my boats. - Woody Allen

The difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. - Will Rogers

Self-pity is a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink. - Elisabeth Elliot

To say my fate is not tied to your fate is like saying, "Your end of the boat is sinking." - Hugh Downs

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency. - Arnold H. Glasow

It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be. - Vincent Canby

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer. - Will Rogers

I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become. - Jean-Paul Sartre

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo

Faith is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see -
But Microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency. - Emily Dickinson

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. - Clare Boothe Luce

I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald Reagan

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

The reason gas prices are so high is because the oil is in Texas and Oklahoma and all the dipsticks are in Washington. - Yakov Smirnoff

In Washington, a man gets up to speak and doesn't say a thing, and the other men disagree with him for three hours. - Milton Berle

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. - Ronald Reagan

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

The most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. - Johnny Isakson

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power. - Robert Frost

In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress. - John Adams

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever. - Marjorie K. Rawlings

Papers say: 'Congress is deadlocked and can't act.' I think that is the greatest blessing that could befall this country. - Will Rogers

A study in the Washington Post says that women have better verbal skills than men. I just want to say to the authors of that study: Duh. - Conan O'Brien

The politicians in Washington are spending trillions of dollars of our money. When are Americans going to stand up and say enough is enough? - Joe Wurzelbacher

Paul Revere was warning the British about gun control, and George Washington apparently was crossing the Delaware to bomb an abortion clinic. - Bill Maher

I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes.
I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. - Will Rogers

The best way to meet a woman is in an emergency situation - if you're in a shipwreck, or you find yourself behind enemy lines, or in a flood. - Mark Helprin