Cristofaro Caresana Quotes & Sayings

So the king went all through the crowd with his hat swabbing his eyes, and blessing the people and praising them and thanking them for being so good to the poor pirates away off there; and every little while the prettiest kind of girls, with the tears running down their cheeks, would up and ask him would he let them kiss him for to remember him by; and he always done it; and some of them he hugged and kissed as many as five or six times - and he was invited to stay a week; and everybody wanted him to live in their houses, and said they'd think it was an honor; but he said as this was the last day of the camp-meeting he couldn't do no good, and besides he was in a sweat to get to the Indian Ocean right off and go to work on the pirates. When — Mark Twain

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept. — Robert Kennedy

Luke, some truly idiotic people have said some truly inspired things. Are we supposed to ignore their words because they couldn't live up to them? — Antony John

[On Austen Chamberlain:] He is more loyal to his friends than to his convictions. — Margot Asquith

Great men wait for the right moment to abandon caution. The rest of us abandon it when impatience becomes too much for us. — Mason Cooley

With this information, in light of the increasing human demands on vegetation, it is my personal opinion that capping CO2 emissions or reducing them to some prior level would be akin to 'biting the hand that feeds us. — Keith E. Idso