Showing posts with label Margaret Thatcher. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Margaret Thatcher. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Quotes

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a
very good plan; you should wear it inside,
where it functions best.
- Margaret Thatcher

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in getting up every time we do.
- Confucius


"America forms the longest and straightest
bone in the earth's skeleton."
- Ellsworth Huntington

"All the President is, is a glorified public
relations man who spends his time flattering,
kissing and kicking people to get them to do
what they are supposed to do anyway."
- Harry S Truman

"The only really good place to buy lumber is at
a store where the lumber has already been cut and
attached together in the form of furniture, finished,
and put inside boxes."
- Dave Barry

"You must not think me necessarily foolish
because I am facetious, nor will I consider
you necessarily wise because you are grave."
- Sydney Smith

Friday, April 17, 2009

Quotes

It may be the cock that crows, but
it is the hen that lays the eggs.
- Margaret Thatcher


"I don't think anyone should write their
autobiography until after they're dead."
- Samuel Goldwyn

Abortion is advocated only by persons
who have themselves been born.
- Ronald Reagan

A sense of humor is part of the art
of leadership, of getting along with
people, of getting things done.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Nature is wont to hide herself."
- Heraclitus

"When I give, I give myself."
- Walt Whitman

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Quotes - Oneliners

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."
- Luis Bunuel

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
- Margaret Thatcher

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
- Bill Hoest

[It's] time for the human race to enter the solar system.
- Dan Quayle

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
- Mel Brooks

Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.
~ John Wayne

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Quotes

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If
you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
- Margaret Thatcher

"Reading is to the mind what
exercise is to the body."
- Sir Richard Steele

"Communism is like one
big phone company."
- Lenny Bruce

"Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness
of the woods before sunrise."
- George Washington Carver

"All I ask is the chance to prove
that money can't make me happy."
- Spike Milligan

"Wonder rather than doubt is
the root of all knowledge."
- Abraham Joshua Heschel

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Quotes - Oneliner

The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost

"Only fools are positive."
- Moe Howard

I fight on, I fight to win.
- Margaret Thatcher

God help those who do not help themselves.
- Wilson Mizner

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
- WC Fields

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Quotes

"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with
less intelligence and more sense than we have."
- Don Herold

"Most ball games are lost, not won."
- Casey Stengel

Ah well! I am their leader, I really ought to follow them!
~ Alexandre Auguste Ledru-Rollin

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous;
you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
- Margaret Thatcher

You don't tell deliberate lies, but
sometimes you have to be evasive.
- Margaret Thatcher

Do not go where the path may lead;
go instead where there is no path
and leave a trail.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson