Quotes, November 2005
01. Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
02. Football is not a contact sport, it's a collision sport - dancing is a contact sport.
- Vince Lombardi
03. I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
- Charles de Gaulle
04. France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by prostitutes.
- Mark Twain
05. The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don't know.
- P. J. O'Rourke
06. We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it.
- Marge Simpson
07. Trust yourself
Think for yourself
Act for yourself
Speak for yourself
Be yourself.
Imitation is suicide.
- Marva Collins
08. The family seems to have two predominant functions: to provide warmth and love in time of need and to drive each other insane.
- Donald G. Smith
09. The only people who say worse things about politicians than reporters do are other politicians.
- Andy Rooney
10. If you don't like the president, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.
- Ed Koch, former Mayor of New York
11. The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
- Elbert Hubbard
12. I have a new philosophy. I’m only going to dread one day at a time.
- Charles Schulz, (from "Charlie Brown")
13. There are only two occasions when Americans respect privacy, especially in Presidents. Those are prayer and fishing.
- Herbert Hoover
14. All the people like us are We, and everyone else is They.
- Rudyard Kipling
15. Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
- John D. Rockefeller
16. This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
- Dorothy Parker
17. It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
- George Bernhard Shaw
18. Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
- Winston Churchill
19. War is like love; it always finds a way.
- Bertolt Brecht
20. He who wonders discovers that this in itself is a wonder.
- Mauritis Escher
21. Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.
- John Donne
22. Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero
[Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow]
- Horace
23. The tragedy of life is not that man loses but that he almost wins.
- Heywood Broun
24. Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
- Stephen Butler Leacock
25. Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing;
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and a silence.
- H. W. Longfellow
26. No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
- John Donne
27. Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
- H. C. Andersen
28. Adventure is not outside a man; it is within.
- David Grayson
29. Being in power is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
- Margaret Thatcher
30. Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.
- Jesse Jackson
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