(289 quotes found)
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”
“Twenty-one years ago today Saddam Hussein was first elected president of Iraq and he has been re-elected ever since. Apparently they have the same electoral process we do, you don't need the popular vote to win.”
Jay Leno
“Vote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.”
“The chief mourner does not always attend the funeral.”
“I don't think I'll get married again. I'll just find a woman I don't like and give her a house.”
Lewis Grizzard
“When facism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.”
Sinclair Lewis
“A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring.”
Mark Twain
“There is no use in walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.”
