Quotes by Politicians - Page 28

Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul.
Cicero
Society is now one polished horde Formed of two mighty tribes the Bores and Bored.
Lord Byron
He says a thousand pleasant things - But never says "Adieu"
J. G. Saxe
Laws die Books never.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A book is the only immortality.
Rufus Choate
Laws die books never.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Master books but do not let them master you. Read to live not live to read.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the even more refined accomplishments of skipping and skimming.
Arthur Balfour
The delight of opening a new pursuit or a new course of reading imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Benjamin Disraeli
I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Lady Nancy Astor
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.
Golda Meir
Men willingly believe what they wish.
Julius Caesar
She deceiving I believing What need lovers wish for more?
Sir Charles Sedley
It is the beginning of the end.
Talleyrand
She walks in beauty like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
Lord Byron
Set a beggar on horseback and he will ride a gallop.
Henry Burton
The most natural beauty in the world is honesty and moral truth. For all beauty is truth.
Lord Shaftesbury
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble he who writes verses builds it in granite.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
Benjamin Disraeli
Art for art's sake.
Victor Cousin
Art as far as it is able follows nature as a pupil imitates his master thus your art must be as it were God's grandchild.
Dante Alighieri
When power leads man toward arrogance poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his experience. When power corrupts poetry cleanses. For art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist. . . faithful to his personal vision of reality becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.
John F Kennedy
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone
When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.
Lord Byron
Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.
Rufus Choate
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.
Benjamin Disraeli
Insolence is not logic epithets are the arguments of malice.
Charles J. Ingersoll
We're eyeball to eyeball and the other fellow just blinked.
Dean Rusk
The White House was designed by Hoban a noted Irish-American architect and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait but I appreciate his efforts.
John F Kennedy
We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us.
Winston Churchill
When power narrows the area of man's concern poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence.
John F Kennedy
Music is the child of prayer the companion of religion.
Chateaubriand
Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes but few have the gift of penetration.
Machiavelli
Animals feed man eats die man of intellect alone knows how to eat.
Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
The worst of all fears is the fear of living.
Theodore Roosevelt
We need not be afraid of the future for the future will be in our own hands.
Thomas E. Dewey
A mule has neither pride of ancestry nor hope of posterity.
Charles J. Ingersoll
Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure and generally create ourselves.
Benjamin Disraeli
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.
Charles J. Ingersoll
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over but when the whole man has come over heart and thought and all the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
Woodrow Wilson
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
F. D. Roosevelt
Don't get mad get even.
Robert F. Kennedy
America - the best poor man's country in the world.
William Allen
I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
Thomas R. Marshall
Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.
J. J. Ingalls
I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.
Willard D. Vandiver
Hail Columbia! happy land! Hail ye heroes! heavenborn band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
Joseph Hopkinson
I don't like the life here in New York. There is no greenery. It would make a stone sick.
Nikita Khrushchev
You will find the Americans much as the Greeks found the Romans: great big vulgar bustling people more vigorous than we are and also more idle with more unspoiled virtues but also more corrupt.
Harold Macmillan
Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.
J. J. Ingalls
Let's talk sense to the American people. Let's tell them the truth that there are no gains without pains.
Adlai Stevenson
People who leave Washington D.C. do so by way of the box - ballot or coffin.
Claiborne Pell
Poor Mexico so far from God and so near to the United States.
Porfirio Diaz
We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through diversity or whether we are to have bitter fragmentation that will result in perpetual tension and strife.
Earl Warren
When you are aspiring to the highest place it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.
Cicero
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
President William J. Clinton
Yes I'm 68 but when I was a boy I was too poor to smoke so knock off ten years. That makes me 58. And since I never developed the drinking habit you can knock off ten more years. So I'm 48 - in the prime of my life. Retire? Retire to what?
W. A. C. Bennett
No gains without pains.
Adlai Stevenson
I'm very pleased with each advancing year. It stems back to when I was forty. I was a bit upset about reaching that milestone but an older friend consoled me. 'Don't complain about growing old - many people don't have that privilege.'
Earl Warren