Garfish Manly Quotes & Sayings

There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it. — George Herbert

There is no surer method of economizing and saving money than in the reduction of the number of officials. — Winston Churchill

The reason the founders chafed at the idea of an American standing army and vested the power of war making in the cumbersome legislature was not to disadvantage us against future enemies, but to disincline us toward war as a general matter ... With citizen-soldiers, with the certainty of a vigorous political debate over the use of a military subject to politicians' control, the idea was for us to feel it- uncomfortably- every second we were at war. But after a generation or two of shedding the deliberate political encumbrances to war that they left us ... war making has become almost an autonomous function of the American state. It never stops. — Rachel Maddow

The triumph of persuasion over force is the sign of a civilized society. — Mark Skousen

I heard through the Verdie grapevine yesterday that the sexy cowboy who lives in this house likes gingersnaps."
"Sexy?" One dark eyebrow shot up. "That's according to the grapevine," she said.
"I kind of like the grapevine then. — Carolyn Brown

The clouds hung like dark, blowing tapestries in the gaps of the hills. — Louis L'Amour

That's what this has been all about for you, correct? Make it clear. That you and me
it was nothing more that you'll have with Spinnerbait boy, or the guy after that, or the guy after that. Right?"
"Yeah, I said, shrugging. "You're right."
He just stood there, looking at me, as if I had actually changed before his eyes. But this was the girl I'd been all along. I'd just hidden her well. — Sarah Dessen

When you are beaten and raped as a child, your life is murdered even if your body isn't. — Patricia Cornwell

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate? — Alexandre Dumas