Quotes 4

Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it enkindles the great. 
* DeBussy-Rabutin * 

A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. 
* Francoise Sagan *

Bachelors know more about women than married men, if they didn't they'd be married too. 
* H. L. Mencken * 

A kiss: To a young girl is faith, to a married woman is hope, to an old maid is charity. 
* V. P. Skipper * 

A man in love is incomplete until he is married. Then he's finished. 
* Zsa Zsa Gabor * 

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
* David Brinkley  *

An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience. 
* Donald R. Perry Marquis *

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. 
* Elbert Hubbard *

A timid person is frightened before danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. 
* Jean Paul Richter *

An executive is a person who always decides, sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides. 
* John H. Patterson *

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. 
* John Stuart Mill *

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. 
* Laurence J. Peter * 

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. 
* Nicholas Murray Butler *

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. 
* Niels Bohr *

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. 
* Robert Frost * 

All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They. 
* Rudyard Kipling *

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. 
* Winston Churchill *

Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all. 
* Bernard Levin *

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. 
* George Bernard Shaw *

Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. 
* George Jean Nathan *

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. 
* H. L. Mencken *

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. 
* H. L. Mencken *

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. 
* Harry S. Truman *

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant. 
* John Simon *

An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought. 
* Simon Cameron *

Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it.... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week. 
* Will Rogers *

Diplomacy is the art of saying "Nice Doggie!" till you can find a rock. 
* Wynn Catlin *

Belladonna interprets : In Italian, a beautiful lady, in English a deadly poison. 
* Ambrose Bierce * 

A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes. 
* Anonymous *

A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. 
* Chester Nimitz *

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn't have what it takes." They will say, "Women don't have what it takes." 
* Clare Boothe Luce *

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. 
* Robert Frost *

A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward. 
* Anonymous *

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. 
* Herbert Prochnow *

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. 
* Mark Twain *

A joke is a very serious thing. 
* Winston Churchill * 

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. 
* Robert Frost *

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. 
* John F. Kennedy * 

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. 
* Napoleon Bonaparte *

Advice from your friends in like the weather, some of it is good, some of it is bad. 
* Anonymous *

All things are difficult before they are easy. 
* Thomas Fuller *

Always do what you are afraid to do. 
* Ralph Waldo Emerson * 

Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. 
* Yogi Berra *

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. 
* Charlie McCarthy * 

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. 
* John F. Kennedy *

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. 
* Edward R. Murrow *

As a mother, I know that homosexuals cannot biologically reproduce children; therefore, they must recruit our children. 
* Anita Bryant *
 

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