Funny Family Gathering Quotes & Sayings

The power to tax is the power to destroy. — John Marshall

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for. — Alain De Botton

The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken. — Walt Whitman

The other people I don't take too seriously are the critics - except when they stand in the way of my projects. In my opinion, they mostly write to impress each other, and they're just as swayed by fashions as anyone else. One week it's spare glass towers they are praising to the skies. The next week, they've rediscovered old, and they're celebrating detail and ornamentation. — Donald J. Trump

There's one thing about getting somebody to help you though ... you got to take whatever it looks like - their kind of help. And you can't be choosin what you like and don't like. Help is a take it or leave it kind of thing, and if you can't take it like it comes, might as well leave it, cause it's gonna be more trouble than it's worth. — Todd Johnson

Some typewriters in Whitehall, in the Pentagon, killed more civilians than our little A4 could have ever hoped to. — Thomas Pynchon

I never cook from cookbooks. — Teresa Heinz

We will never have a world free of violence until we teach our children to carry peace in their hearts, not guns in their hands. — Donna Marie Merritt

But a thing I've often noticed is that when I've got something off my mind, it pretty nearly always happens that Fate sidles up and shoves on something else, — P.G. Wodehouse

My brain was about two eggs past fried. — Mindy Ruiz

He made slighting remarks about the committee's enforcement, and, well, rules is rules as the rules say someplace, or at least as all the oldies say they say. — N.D. Wilson

My mother Diana was a true-blue aristocrat, descended from William the Conqueror and listed in 'Burke's Peerage.' My father David, from a poor Scottish family, was a doctor. — Celia Imrie

Still, in the end, we all die just the same. — Haruki Murakami

Sometimes life is irreverent, and you accidentally discover you are a party to irreverence, and it's hard to know what to do. — Hilary Thayer Hamann

I think relationships are work, but love is a gift. — Anne Hathaway