Sayings & Quotes

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"I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: ÔÇ£No good in a bed, but fine up against a wallÔÇØ.
Eleanor Roosevelt


ÔÇ£Happiness is belonging, not belongings.ÔÇØ

"Work is a toad that squats on my life."
Philip Larkin



"The worldwide slobbering over celebrities who became celebrities by slobbering over celebrities, is a felony against journalism."
Walter Goodman.


"ItÔÇÖs my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain."
Lily Tomin


"IÔÇÖve got 99 problems & being trapped in a decaying body in a money hungry society on a dying planet in a mysterious dimension may be one."
Anon


A member of Parliament to Disraeli: ÔÇ£Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.
ÔÇ£That depends Sir,ÔÇØ said Disraeli, ÔÇ£whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.ÔÇØ


ÔÇ£He is a self-made man and worships his creator.ÔÇØ
John Bright

ÔÇ£IÔÇÖve just learned about his illness. LetÔÇÖs hope itÔÇÖs nothing trivial.ÔÇØ
Irvin S. Cobb

ÔÇ£He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.ÔÇØ
Paul Keating


"Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life."


"Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People."


"He has not one single redeeming defect"
On William Gladstone


"The right honourable gentlemen's smile is like the silver fittings of a coffin."
On Robert Peel.
Disraeli