1. “I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child.”
    Bessie Smith blues singer
  2. I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up.
    Groucho Marx
  3. If you're totally illiterate and living on one dollar a day, the benefits of globalization never come to you.
    Jimmy Carter
  4. Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else; this is not advice, it is merely custom.
    Mark Twain
  5. Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
    H. L. Mencken
  6. I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also.
    Theodore Roosevelt
  7. America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
    John F. Kennedy
  8. And my parents finally realize that I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.
    Woody Allen
  9. I never had to choose a subject - my subject rather chose me.
    Ernest Hemingway
  10. But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
    Albert Einstein
  11. I had never expected that the China initiative would come to fruition in the form of a Ping-Pong team.
    Richard M. Nixon
  12. I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.
    John F. Kennedy
  13. If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
  14. I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.
    William J. Clinton
  15. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
    Dean Acheson
  16. I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate.
    John Steinbeck
  17. Good works are links that form a chain of love.
    Mother Teresa
  18. I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers We are the president.
    Hillary Clinton
  19. The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.
    Gerald R. Ford
  20. When the grandmothers of today hear the word "Chippendales," they don't necessary think of chairs.
    Jean Kerr
  21. I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.
    Sitting Bull
  22. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
    Albert Einstein
  23. If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
    John Steinbeck
  24. Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
    H. L. Mencken
  25. I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would affront your intelligence.
    William F. Buckley, Jr.
  26. To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  27. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
  28. I was an equal opportunity eater. Every ethnic group got a shot.
    William J. Clinton
  29. Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.
    Denis Waitley
  30. It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
    Ingrid Bergman
  31. The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.
    Joan Baez


    1. Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
      Theodore Roosevelt
    2. Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
      Oliver Wendell Holmes
    3. If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
      Theodore Roosevelt
    4. If wild my breast and sore my pride,
      I bask in dreams of suicide,
      If cool my heart and high my head
      I think "How lucky are the dead.
      Dorothy Parker
    5. Hatred is blind, as well as love.
      Oscar Wilde
    6. It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.
      Ernest Hemingway
    7. I have impeached myself by resigning.
      Richard M. Nixon
    8. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
      Dean Acheson
    9. I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
      Hillary Clinton
    10. You see much more of your children once they leave home.
      Lucille Ball
    11. Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
      Ingrid Bergman
    12. Work is either fun or drudgery. It depends on your attitude. I like fun.
      Colleen C. Barrett
    13. “Go often to the house of thy friend, weeds choke the unused path.”
      Ralph Waldo Emerson
    14. “The fool doth think he is wise, But the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
      William Shakespeare
    15. “I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature; and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries 'Give, give!'”
      Abigail Smith Adams
    16. I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.
      Mother Teresa
    17. I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it.
      John F. Kennedy
    18. Plans are nothing; planning is everything.
      Dwight D. Eisenhower
    19. (Bernard Shaw) has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
      Oscar Wilde
    20. If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
      Abigail Adams
    21. He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.
      Plato
    22. Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.
      Theodore Roosevelt
    23. Only Americans can hurt America.
      Dwight D. Eisenhower
    24. You have given me a great responsibility: to stay close to you, to be worthy of you and to exemplify what you are.
      Jimmy Carter
    25. If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.
      Harry S. Truman
    26. Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.
      W. Somerset Maugham
    27. Music is only love looking for words.
      Lawrence Durrell
    28. About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
      Josh Billings
    29. Attention to health is life greatest hindrance.
      Plato
    30. Gossip is more popular than literature.
      Hugh Leonard


      1. I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
        John Steinbeck
      2. The greatest mistake I made was not to die in office.
        Dean Acheson
      3. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.
        Mother Teresa
      4. Party honesty is party expediency.
        Grover Cleveland
      5. If I want to knock a story off the front page, I just change my hairstyle.
        Hillary Clinton
      6. An American tragedy in which we all have played a part.
        Gerald R. Ford
      7. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
        Mohandas Gandhi
      8. Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
        Abraham Lincoln
      9. It's weird. Day by day nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything is different.
        Calvin and Hobbes
      10. “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
        Ralph Waldo Emerson
      11. “ “I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life.... Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.”
        Abigail Smith Adams
      12. He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about.
        Oscar Wilde
      13. Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.
        Plato
      14. I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.
        Albert Einstein
      15. I don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd.
        Dwight D. Eisenhower
      16. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
        Harry S. Truman
      17. Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
        W. Somerset Maugham
      18. Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.
        Alexander Hamilton
      19. I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
        Lawrence Durrell
      20. Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.
        Josh Billings
      21. I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it.
        Hugh Leonard
      22. Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
        Ernest Hemingway
      23. This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.
        Harry S. Truman
      24. “To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.”
        Alexander Smith
      25. “When my bed is empty, Makes me feel awful mean and blue.
        My springs are getting rusty, Living single like I do.”
        Bessie Smith blues singer
      26. Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
        Winston Churchill
      27. “I heard the old, old men say 'All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters.'”
        William Butler Yeats
      28. “The mortal remains of Ethan Allen, fighter, writer, statesman, and philosopher, lie in this cemetery beneath the marble statue. His spirit is in Vermont now.”
        Ethan Allen
      29. “O what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive.”
        Sir Walter Scott
      30. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated”
        Thomas More
      31. Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.
        Theodore Roosevelt