Dead Batteries

Those who have free seats at a play hiss first. - Chinese Proverb

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. - James Keller

There is no more expensive thing than a free gift. - Michel de Montaigne

They are not free who drag their chains after them. - French Proverb

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally. - WC Fields

I thought talk was cheap until I saw our telephone bill. - Henny Youngman

America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric. - Doug Hamwell

Laws, like spider webs, catch flies and let hawks go free. - Spanish Proverb

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace. - Buddha

I was born a slave, but nature gave me a soul of a free man. - Toussaint Louverture

Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free. - Carol J Adams

The Internet is a telephone system that's gotten uppity. - Clifford Stoll

You are absolutely free to describe me as a turtle or something. - Paul Giamatti

No human being, however great or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. - John Ruskin

Only you know who you were born to be and you need to free that person. - Ruby Rose

When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free. - Charles E. Hughes

The trouble with free elections is, you never know who is going to get in. - Leonid Brezhnev

Actually, I comb my hair quite often. Of course, I use an electric toothbrush. - Phyllis Diller

Why do you press harder on a remote-control when you know the battery is dead? - George Carlin

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion. - James Reston

To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation. - Mrs. Hubbard Davis

I want to have a bunch of kids so I can open a factory and have free labor. Beat that, China! - Jarod Kintz

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. - Jewish Proverb

The truly free man is the one who will turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse. - Jules Renard

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery. - Erma Bombeck

No one has put forward a plan to make this country entirely debt free as we enter the next millenium. - Donald Trump

I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line. - Elvis Presley

How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? - Woody Allen

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. - Ralph Ellison

There is never a better measure of what a person is than what he does when he's absolutely free to choose. - William M. Bulger

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your existence itself is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus

Every country must be absolutely free to adopt the type of economic, political and social system that it considers convenient. - Fidel Castro

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. - C S Lewis

Telephone: An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. - Ambrose Bierce

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free. - Veronica Roth

If Obama resigns from office NOW, thereby doing a great service to the country, I will give him free lifetime golf at any one of my courses. - Donald Trump

I believe there's an Almighty, and I believe the Almighty's great gift to each man and woman in this world is the desire to be free. - George W Bush