Dead Batteries

Books don't need batteries. - Nadine Gordimer

Defect-free software does not exist. - Wietse Venema

Man is not free unless government is limited. - Ronald Reagan

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

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

Of all times in time of war the press should be free. - William Borah

Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free. - Dwight D Eisenhower

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

Free love is a black and white contradiction in two words. - G K Chesterton

Only the truth of who you are, if realized, will set you free. - Eckhart Tolle

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

I've read some of your modern free verse and wonder who set it free. - John Barrymore

The farmer allows walkers across the field for free, but the bull charges. - Unknown

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free. - Emma Lazarus

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

If we are a country committed to free speech, then why do we have phone bills? - Steven Wright

It's what you do in your free time that will set you free - or enslave you.
 - Jarod Kintz

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. - Charlotte Bronte

Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more. - Martin Luther

My uncle's dying wish was to have me sitting in his lap; he was in the electric chair. - Rodney Dangerfield

If you love something set it free, but don't be surprised if it comes back with herpes. - Chuck Palahniuk

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

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. - Albert Camus

To give up the task of reforming society is to give up one's responsibility as a free man. - Alan Paton

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

Bob War: (Southern) A sharp, twisted cable. Usage: 'Boy, stay away from that bob war fence.' - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within. - Bob Nelson

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world. - Alison Lurie

If you love someone, set them free. If they come back, they're yours; if they don't, they never were. - Richard Bach

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. - Jawaharlal Nehru

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. - John Wooden

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

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

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. - Franklin D Roosevelt

The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on. - Tyler Perry

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. - Eugene V Debs

I went to the hardware store and bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. I also bought some batteries, but they weren't included. - Steven Wright