Quotes from:
"1,911 Best things
anybody ever said"
by Robert Byrne
"I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell."
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972)
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
"Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."
Robert Orben
Robert Orben
"There is no distinctly American criminal class -- except Congress."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support
of Paul."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
Herbert Hoover (1874-1964)
"You can't say civilization don't advance ... in every war they kill you a new way."
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"If I were two-faced,
would I be wearing this one?"
would I be wearing this one?"
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"It's not what we don't know that hurts,
it's what we know that ain't so."
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"In California you lose a point
off your IQ every year."
Truman Capote (1924-1984)
" There was a time when we expected nothing of children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience."
Anatole Broyard
