“Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it exists?” -Saint Augustine

“I find TV very educational. Every time someone turns the TV on I go into the other room and read” – Groucho Marx

“I will have no part of a club that would accept someone like me as a member” -Me quoting Groucho Marx in response to a reader’s suggestion I join a neighborhood alliance.

“The good news is that Jesus is coming back, the bad news is that he’s really pissed off” -Bob Hope

“You can find a silver lining in every cloud, but that doesn’t remove the fact that there is indeed a cloud hanging overhead..” -Joe on living in a socio-economic diverse community where property values suffer and citizens are responsible for their own safety.

“If you are preoccupied with knowing who’s behind joesacramento.com, you are missing the whole point of it.” -Joe

“One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.” -Ronald Reagan

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace”-Jimi Hendrix

“Put on love.. and give thanks” St Paul

“A man is free to the extent of his rational thought” -St Thomas Aquinas

“True love always wills a person good” -St Thomas Aquinas

“Obama is the new black”

“There’s no such thing as a winnable war, it’s a lie we doon’t believe anymore”

“I am all for Heather Fargo keeping an office downtown–as long as it’s in the city museum and not city hall” -Joe

“Fargo can thank her lucky tree branches for the Sacramento Bee; they are the ONLY reason she is even in contention” -Joe

“You are a Kevin Johnson shill and no one cares about your opinion” -email to Joe, 25,000 hits later

“I know who you guys are and I am about to expose your racket” -Disgruntled Sac Blogger email to Joe

“There is a prolific (inarticulate) poster here who is under investigation by the CPOE and he will be exposed soon” A guy named BBBmer on the SacBee web site.

–Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
–G.K. Chesterton