quotes and sayings about him

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water; they are good servants, but bad masters. ~Roger L'Estrange, Aesop's Fables, 1692



Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. ~Margaret Mead



Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



The slogan of the National Association of Landlords is the commaless "We Shelter You America." The truth of the matter is, however, that landlords shelter no one, while in fact the law shelters them... from the immediate expropriation that would occur if there were not force of gun and jail to back up this phoney, abusive, so-called property right. ~Fred Woodworth, Rent: An Injustice



Our behavior is human with a sliver of animal, our souls animal with a sliver of human. ~Carrie Latet



The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in. ~Robert J. Kibbee



It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. ~Spanish Proverb



When you live in reaction, you give your power away. Then you get to experience what you gave your power to. ~N. Smith



Promises may fit the friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies. ~Benjamin Franklin



If everything comes your way, you are in the wrong lane. ~Author Unknown



I prefer to regard a dessert as I would imagine the perfect woman: subtle, a little bittersweet, not blowsy and extrovert. Delicately made up, not highly rouged. Holding back, not exposing everything and, of course, with a flavor that lasts. ~Graham Kerr



Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar



God has editing rights over our prayers. He will... edit them, correct them, bring them in line with His will and then hand them back to us to be resubmitted. ~Stephen Crotts



You will never find that life for which you are looking. When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. ~The Epic of Gilgamesh



Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth. ~W.J. Cameron



Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window except that the birds might eat them. ~Martin H. Fischer, Fischerisms



Men may scoff, and men may pray, but they pay every pleasure with a pain. ~William Henley



Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider. ~Ecclesiastes 12:14



Better than silence is? ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow