Famous Quotes

[Hedgehog]

Famous quotes:
As I sat, strapped in my seat waiting during the countdown, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.--John Glenn

When the white missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.- Desmond Tutu

America is the only country where a significant proportion of the population believes that professional wrestling is real but the moon landing was faked.
- David Letterman

I'm not a paranoid, deranged millionaire. I'm a billionaire.- Howard Hughes

After the game, the King and the Pawn go into the same box.- Italian proverb

Men are like linoleum floors. Lay 'em right and you can walk all over them for thirty years.- Betsy Salkind

The only reason they say 'Women and children first' is to test the strength of the lifeboats.- Jean Kerr

I've been married to a communist and a fascist, and neither would take out the garbage.- Zsa Zsa Gabor

When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife.- Prince Philip

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing.- Emo Philips.

Wood burns faster when you have to cut and chop it yourself.
- Harrison Ford

The best cure for sea sickness, is to sit under a tree.- Spike Milligan

Lawyers believe a man is innocent until proven broke.- Robin Hall

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
- Jean Rostand.

Having more money doesn't make you happier. I have 50 million dollars but I'm just as happy as when I had 48 million - Arnold Schwarzenegger.

We are here on earth to do good unto others. What the others are here for, I have no idea.- W. H. Auden

If life were fair Elvis would still be alive today and all the impersonators would be dead.- Johnny Carson

I don't believe in astrology. I am a Sagittarius and we're very skeptical.
- Arthur C Clarke

Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap. - Steve Martin
Home cooking. Where many a man thinks his wife is.- Jimmy Durante

America is so advanced that even the chairs are electric.- Doug Hamwell

The first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone.
- George Roberts

If God had intended us to fly he would have made it easier to get to the airport.- Jonathan Winters

I have kleptomania, but when it gets bad, I take something for it.- Robert Benchley

The weather person is the only person I know who can be wrong 99.9 % of the time and still have a job the next day. Johnny Carson

 

[Ithikial]

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. ~ Mark Twain


It will be years — not in my time — before a woman will become Prime Minister. ~ Margaret Thatcher (1974)


If Lincoln was alive today, he'd roll over in his grave. ~ Gerald Ford


Things are more like they are now than they have ever been. ~ Gerald Ford


I love sports. Whenever I can, I always watch the Detroit Tigers on the radio. ~ Gerald Ford


There is a mandate to impose a voluntary return to traditional values. ~ Ronald Reagan


Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God I'm still alive. But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.' ~ Sen. Barbara Boxer


They believe sentences imposed by juries should be carried out. ~ George W. Bush


I think we all agree, the past is over. ~ George W. Bush


The problem with political jokes is that they get elected. ~ George Bernard Shaw



… that is the nature of politics: poly, meaning more than one, and ticks, meaning blood-sucking parasites.

Kinky Friedman


Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test his character, give him power. ~ Abraham Lincoln


If there is anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public. ~ Anonymous


Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius


Politicians are all the same. They promise reforms then reform their promises. ~ Leonid S. Sukhorukov


Every government does as much harm as it can, and as much good as it must. ~ Nicholas Walter


To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. ~ Sir Winston Churchill

 

[Nathangun]

Can't go wrong with Kinky Friedman a legend.