Circuses Still Operating Quotes & Sayings

Stupidity is expecting figs in winter, or children in old age. — Marcus Aurelius

Later in life, when I'm retired and have a family of my own and will be able to send my kids to college, that's when I'll start spending. Way too many athletes go broke these days, and I like saving my money so that I can ensure my family and friends currently and after me will never have to endure some of the things I did when I was a kid. — Victor Ortiz

I expect most psychiatrists have a patient or two they'd like to refer to me. — Thomas Harris

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations. — Samuel George Morton

This place is like some cosmic dream crusher. All you can get out of a place like this is a creepy little tingle that lets you know your kid is never going to be anything more than a customer-that the whole world is being turned into casino. — Douglas Coupland

In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten. — Peter Lynch

Columbus real achievement was managing to cross the ocean successfully in both directions. Though an accomplished enough mariner, he was not terribly good at a great deal else, especially geography, the skill that would seem most vital in an explorer. — Bill Bryson

One of the things I miss most about the U.K. is political TV, and I have one of those little gadgets, which means I can download British programmes illegally - that's why it's a guilty pleasure. — Raza Jaffrey

Cleverness is a disease. — Rumer Godden

Those of us with the courage to open ourselves to that much love and not fear it - who can give joy to a dying child until the very end without withdrawing to save ourselves - those are our saints. It is not the martyrs. It is never the martyrs. — Derek Miller