Quotable Quotes

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:00 pm

And so,as Tiny Tim observed,God Bless Us,Every One--The closing line of A Christmas Carol.

Charles Dickens---1812-1870

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:50 am

Ninety eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them.

Lily Tomlin

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 6:54 pm

We are all citizens of history.

Clifton Fadiman, American author,editor and radio personality

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Wed Dec 20, 2006 8:34 pm

You can discover what your enemy fears most by
observing the means he uses to frighten you.

Eric Hoffer

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:05 pm

Winter comes but once a year,And when it comes it brings the doctor good cheer.

Ogden Nash,American humorist (1902-1971)

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Dec 26, 2006 2:48 pm

The people who think they are happy should rummage through their dreams.

Edward Dahlberg--American author and critic---1900-1977

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Dec 27, 2006 12:19 pm

Why must all the churches be closed at night? How often has the wanderer groaned in front of those closed doors?

Paul Claudel, French author--1868-1955

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 6:14 am

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Dame Barbara Cartland

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Dec 28, 2006 10:42 pm

More persons,on the whole,are humbugged by believing nothing,than by believing too much.

Phineas T. Barnum, American showman --1810-1891

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:05 am

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.

Admiral Richard E. Byrd

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 6:30 am

Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

George Will

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 7:37 am

Do not attempt to do a thing unless you are sure of yourself; but do not relinquish it simply because someone else is not sure of you.

Stewart E. White

Post by **noreply66** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:47 am

If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder,he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy,excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Rachel Carson, American biologist 1907-1964

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:16 am

Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly
around women. And I hope I never get into that.

Bill Clinton

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:54 am

My basic principle is that you don't make decisions because they are easy; you don't make them because they are cheap; you don't make them because they are popular; you make them because they're RIGHT.

Theodore Hesburgh

former president, Univ. of Notre Dame

Post by **noreply66** » Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:08 pm

I am prejudiced in favor of him who,without impudence,can ask boldly.He has faith in humanity,and faith in himself.no one who is not accustomed to give grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

Johann Kasper Lavater, Swiss theologian--1741-1801

Post by **noreply66** » Wed Jan 03, 2007 5:42 pm

I can forgive,but I cannot forget,is only another way of saying,I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two,and burned up,so that it never can be shown against one.

Henry Ward Beecher, America clergyman--1813-1887

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:51 am

Never explain-your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway.

Elbert Hubbard

Post by **noreply66** » Thu Jan 04, 2007 7:26 pm

The more people are reached by mass communication,the less they communicate with each other.

Marya Mannes,American author-journalist--1904-1990

BubbleGumTiger · Post by **BubbleGumTiger** » Fri Jan 05, 2007 9:07 am

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

Charlie McCarthy