Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ronald Reagan. Show all posts

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

Thursday, November 20, 2008

Quotaria

"It's a small world, but I
wouldn't want to paint it."
- Steven Wright

"Everything you've learned in school as "obvious"
becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study
the universe. For example, there are no solids in
the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a
solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are
no surfaces. There are no straight lines."
- R. Buckminster Fuller

"Conscience is what makes a boy tell
his mother before his sister does."
- Evan Esar

"When I was a kid my parents moved
a lot, but I always found them."
- Rodney Dangerfield

"If we love our country, we should
also love our countrymen."
- Ronald Reagan

"Whatever is worth doing at
all is worth doing well."
- Lord Chesterfield

Monday, October 20, 2008

Quotes

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character
by his way of eating jellybeans."
- Ronald Reagan

"A government that is big enough to give you all
you want is big enough to take it all away."
- Barry Goldwater

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for
work and driving through traffic in a car that you are
still paying for - in order to get to the job you need
to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you
leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
- Ellen Goodman

"Personally I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"Humanity is acquiring all the right
technology for all the wrong reasons."
- R. Buckminster Fuller

"It is not worth an intelligent man's time
to be in the majority. By definition, there
are already enough people to do that."
- G. H. Hardy

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Quotes

"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on
its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep
in that position you can make a crowd of men."
- Max Beerbohm

"The best minds are not in government. If
any were, business would hire them away."
- Ronald Reagan

"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant.
Even I want to be Cary Grant."
- Cary Grant

"Is fuel efficiency really what we need most
desperately? I say that what we really need
is a car that can be shot when it breaks down."
- Russell Baker

"I have a mind to join a club and
beat you over the head with it."
- Groucho Marx

"How beautifully leaves grow old. How full
of light and color are their last days."
- George Burns

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Quotes - Oneliners

"Facts are stupid things."
- Ronald Reagan

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.
- George Bernard Shaw

"May you live every day of your life."
-Jonathan Swift

"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."
- Germaine Greer

Love is a quality, not a quantity.
- Vanna Bonta

"What's another word for Thesaurus?"
- Steven Wright