Sayings & Quotes

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"This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man."
Shakespeare, Hamlet

"The poor object to being governed badly, the rich to being governed at all."
GK Chesterton


ÔÇ£I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.ÔÇØ
Maya Angelou

"If a man has an apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation and our childrenÔÇÖs futures, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models."
B. Lester


ÔÇ£If any man or woman, able to work, should refuse to labour and live idly for three days, he or she should be branded with a red hot iron on the breast with the letter V ┬áand should be judged the slave for two years of any person who should inform against such idlerÔÇØ
English Poor Act 1552


"A lie once told remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth."
Joseph Goebbels


"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace & goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Xmas."
Calvin Coolidge


"Cemeteries are filled   with people who thought the world could not get along without them. "
Anon