Spicy Quotes

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny.^    William Shakespeare

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.^    Ralph Waldo Emerson

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.^    Woodrow Wilson

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.  -Martha Washington.^    Martha Washington

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--diliberate, contrived, and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.^    John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.^    Ralph Waldo Emerson

Journalism consists largely in saying 'Lord Jones died' to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.^    Gilbert Keith Chesterton

You can muffle the drum, and you can loosen the strings of the lyre, but who shall command the skylark not to sing?^    Kahlil Gibran

Play has been man's most useful preoccupation.^    Frank Caplan

When the boss is a way, work becomes a holiday.^    Portuguese Proverb

Beauty is the gift of God.^    Aristotle

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.^    James Nathan Miller

But it is not reason that governs love.  ^    Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

Bursts as a wave that from the clouds impends,  And swell'd with tempests on the ship descends;    White are the decks with foam; the winds aloud      Howl o'er the masts, and sing through every shroud:        Pale, trembling, tir'd, the sailors freeze with fears;          And instant death on every wave appears.^    Homer Smyrns of Chios

Come, Death, and snatch me from disgrace.^    Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton

A parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.^    Thomas Carlyle

Which cheers the sad, revives the old, inspires  The young, makes Weariness forget his toil,    And Fear her danger; opens a new world      When this, the present, palls.^    Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron

I have a feeling this is destiny. [On the eve of her third marriage].^    Christie Brinkley

Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.^    Ambrose Bierce

Uncle claims that if he files his income tax wrong he'll go to jail, and if he files it right he'll go to the poor house.^    Nonnee Coan

I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery.^    Rene Descartes

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.^    Stephen Leacock

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.^    Sorphia Loren

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.^    Frank Rizzo

Evil spelled backward is live.^    Source Unknown

Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.^    Sorphia Loren

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.^    Frank Rizzo

I didn't say that I didn't say it. I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that very clear.^    George Romney

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