Quotes by Politicians - Page 17

Penny wise pound foolish.
Henry Burton
How do you make a million? You start with $900 000.
Stephen Lewis
It isn't enough for you to love money - it's also necessary that money should love you.
Baron Rothschild
The darkest hour of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Horace Greeley
I beseech you in the bowels of Christ think it possible you may be mistaken.
Oliver Cromwell
There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. The result would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.
Lord Acton
To live long it is necessary to live slowly.
Cicero
The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong.
Georges Bidault
Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
Benjamin Disraeli
The thing we have to fear in this country to my way of thinking is the influence of the organized minorities because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength but they give no expression of it.
Alfred E. Smith
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
Winston Churchill
What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year?
Lady Nancy Astor
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
Lord Longford
A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
R. B. Sheridan
Our memories are independent of our wills. It is not so easy to forget.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary.
Sir William Blackstone
I never forgive but I always forget.
Arthur James Balfour
Departure should be sudden.
Benjamin Disraeli
I am in a moment of pretty wellness.
Horace Walpole
So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.
Sir Auckland Geddes
Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.
Ronald Reagan
Every woman should marry - and no man.
Benjamin Disraeli
Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.
Andrew Jackson
I married beneath me - all women do.
Nancy Lady Astor
It destroys one's nerves to be amiable every day to the same human being.
Benjamin Disraeli
Only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. One is to let her think she is having her own way and the other to let her have it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
No man is regular in his attendance at the House of Commons until he is married.
Benjamin Disraeli
I'm an extinct volcano.
Nancy Lady Astor
A wise woman will always let her husband have her way.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
F. D. Roosevelt
He was the mildest manner'd man That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
Lord Byron
Now as to politeness... I would venture to call it benevolence in trifles.
Lord Chatham
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
One with the law is a majority.
Calvin Coolidge
Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.
Lord Byron
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Benjamin Disraeli
A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck.
James A. Garfield
And after all what is a lie? Tis but The truth in masquerade.
Lord Byron
A liar is not believed even though he tell the truth.
Cicero
Terminological inexactitude
Winston Churchill
You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.
Dianne Feinstein
Pennies do not come from heaven- they have to be earned here on earth.
Margaret Thatcher
It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned.
Frank A. Clark
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
Ignazio Silone
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin Coolidge
Luck is what a capricious man believes in.
Benjamin Disraeli
To love her was a liberal education.
Richard Steele
I would rather have a lucky general than a smart general. ... They win battles and they make me lucky.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Everything in life is luck.
Donald Trump
He who for love hath undergone The worst that can befall Is happier thousandfold than one Who never loved at all.
Richard Monckton Milnes
Man's love is of man's life a thing apart 'Tis woman's whole existence.
Lord Byron
We are all born for love ... It is the principle of existence and its only end.
Benjamin Disraeli
God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman and God help him still more if he finds her.
Ben Tillet
I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First let her think she's having her way. And second let her have it.
Lyndon Johnson
Father giving advice to son: Never do anything once around the house that you don't want to do for the rest of your life.
Frank Briggs
A mighty mass of brick and smoke and shipping Dirty and dusty but as wide as eye Could reach with here and there a sail just skipping In sight then lost amidst the forestry Of masts a wilderness of steeples peeping On tiptoe through their sea-coal canopy A huge dun cupola like a fools-cap crown On a fool's head - and there is London Town.
Lord Byron
London is a roost for every bird.
Benjamin Disraeli
I am never long even in the society of her I love without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
Lord Byron
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Franklin D. Roosevelt