Category: Quotations

  • Corruption

    Republicans are so efficient.  It took them only 10 years in power to become as corrupt as the Democrats were after 40 years in control.William C. Stosine, Iowa City, IA; Letters, Time, 31 Oct 2005

  • Innovators

    Innovators are inevitably controversial.Eva Le Gallienne

  • Thanks for being tired

    People always say that I didn’t give up my seat because I was tired, but that isn’t true.  I was not tired physically, or no more tired than I usually was at the end of a working day.  I was not old, although some people have an image of me as being old then.  I…

  • Annus Horribilis

    A second flood, a simple famine,Plagues of locusts everywhere,Or a cataclysmic earthquake,I’d accept with some despair.But no, You sent us Congress!Good God, Sir, was that fair?John Adams’ prayer, from the movie “1776”With the prospect of a influenza outbreak of pandemic proportions, major earthquakes, tsunami’s and hurricane’s in the last year; you begin to wonder if…

  • Laughter

    The most useless day of all is that in which we have not laughed.Sebastien R.N. Chamfort

  • Property

    Property has its duties as well as its rights.Thomas Drummond

  • Who’s correct?

    The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell