Cute Pringle Quotes & Sayings

If I were to name the one crying evil of American life, Mr. Derrick, it would be the indifference of the better people to public affairs. It is so in all our great centres. There are other great trusts, God knows, in the United States besides our own dear P. and S.W. Railroad. Every state has its own grievance. If it is not a railroad trust, it is a sugar trust, or an oil trust, or an industrial trust, that exploits the People, because the people allow it. The indifference of the People is the opportunity of the despot. It is as true as that the whole is greater than the part, and the maxim is so old that it is trite - it is laughable. It is neglected and disused for the sake of some new ingenious and complicated theory, some wonderful scheme of reorganization, the fact remains, nevertheless, simple, fundamental, everlasting. The People have but to say 'No' and not the strongest tyranny, political, religious, or financial, that was ever organized, could survive one week. — Frank Norris

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. — Abbott L. Lowell

When you go out there to do comedy, you feel like you're doing battle with the audience a lot of the time. You're either going to get 'em, or you're not. — Rob Riggle

is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the assistant, when he has driven out the invader, should seize on the dominions himself, and kill, imprison, or banish, the prince he came to relieve. — Jonathan Swift

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable. — David Walliams

Can the mind become completely still without coercion, without compulsion, without discipline? — Jiddu Krishnamurti

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it. — Victoria Woodhull

Oh my God! Why did I leave India? I fell in love with a white man. That's what it was. It was the most boring, predictable reason in the world. I met him in India, we fell in love, and we got married. And then, we got divorced. Sorry about that. — Deepa Mehta

No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me. — Lillie Langtry

I broke that town in half like a wooden match. — Charles Bukowski

If your mother still drives you to school, you are not a gangster, pull your pants up! — Bill Engvall

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on. — Ambrose Bierce

That's just the way I end up making meaning from the direct material in my life - I think what makes it accessible is the desire to communicate, more than anything. It does make it accessible, but that's not what motivates me. — Frances Stark