The reason lightning doesn’t strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn’t there the second time.
– Willie Tyler

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
– Sean O’Casey

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you
right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

The saying “Getting there is half the fun” became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.
– Henry J. Tillman

Someday we’ll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
– Evan Davis

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.
– Jerry Seinfeld

With the mid-term elections coming up, the Foley mess, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the strong feelings on all sides over that, this felt like a good time to pull together some quotes on Democracy.

I found the quotes in Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Colossal Collection of “Quotable” Quotes

“Democracy was the right
of the people to choose
their own tyrants”

James Madison

“If we would learn what the
human race really is at bottom,
we need only observe it
at elections times.”

Mark Twain

“Democracy: in which you
say what you want but do
what you’re told.”

Gerald Berry

“Bad officials are elected by
good citizens who do not
vote.”

George Jean Nathan

“Democracy is the art and
science of running the circus
from the monkey cage.”

H.L. Mencken

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.

– Dr. Seuss

Television enables you to be entertained in your home by people you wouldn’t have in your home.

– David Frost

I’m worried that the universe will soon need replacing. It’s not holding a charge.

– Edward Chilton