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An honest politician

  An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. - Simon Cameron Mothers may still want their sons to grow up to be President, but according to a famous Gallup poll of some years ago, some 73 percent do not want them to become politicians in the process. - John F. Kennedy, Profiles in Courage, 1956 Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians. - Chester Bowles Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. - Frank Dane If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. - George Bernard Shaw Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. - Ogden Nash I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. - Anna Quindlen It is dismal coming home, when there is nobody to welcome on...

Think like a wise man

  Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot. - Italian Proverb Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. - Louis L'Amour Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. - Leonardo da Vinci The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. - Leo Tolstoy I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865 We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury READ MORE

Truth is beautiful

  Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson When you come to a fork in the road, take it. - Yogi Berra I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. - Harry S Truman A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but where they ought to be. - Rosalynn Carter Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings. - William Blake You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. - Louis L'Amour Take the diplomacy out of war and the thing would fall flat in a week. - Will Rogers MORE... NICE

When we do the best that we can

  Helen Keller When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another. --Helen Keller Truth is what stands the test of experience. --Albert Einstein Life is like playing a violin in public and learning the instrument as one goes on. --Samuel Butler Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. --Leo Tolstoy If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you. --Oscar Wilde A little Madness in the Spring Is wholesome even for the King. --Emily Dickinson, No. 1333 Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records. --William Arthur Ward In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. --Mark Twain To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. --Oliver Wendell Holmes Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. - Eddie...

10 quotes for today - 25 January 2019

One kind word can warm three winter months. - Japanese proverb Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude. - William Shakespeare Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. - Willa Cather, My Antonia Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart. - Victor Hugo Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. - Frank Lloyd Wright It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go. - Oscar Wilde Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that...