Histhry Quotes & Sayings

A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar. — Richard Brinsley Sheridan

We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another one. We want a 401-k plan and Social Security. — James Hillman

I'll believe this time, but don't lie to me again! — T.A. Walters

I'll now fall back a furlong or two in me chair, while me larned but misguided collagues r-read th' Histhry iv Iceland to show ye how wrong I am. But mind ye, what I 've said goes. I let thim talk because it exercises their throats, but ye 've heard all th' decision on this limon case that'll get into th' fourth reader.' A voice fr'm th' audjeence, ' Do I get me money back ? ' Brown J. : ' Who ar-re ye ? ' Th' Voice : ' Th' man that ownded th' limons.' Brown J. : ' I don't know.' (Gray J., White J., dissentin' an' th' r-rest iv th' birds concurrin' but fr entirely diff'rent reasons.) — Finley Peter Dunne

Wild rumours abound, wherever there is any adequate reality for them to cling to. — Herman Melville

But of course, no family is an island unto itself. It is always part of a larger culture: a community. — Richard C. Morais

If you can let it go at not understanding, that's the best anyone could expect. — Haruki Murakami

I am constantly amazed by you," he said. "To say that you view the world through rose-colored glasses would be the greatest of understatements. You don't just see things tinted in pink; you see a world that is pink all the way through. — Courtney Milan

Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course, these motorcars, television sets and refrigerators do not make a man happy. In the instant in which he acquires them, he may feel happier than he did before. But as soon as some of his wishes are satisfied, new wishes spring up. Such is human nature. — Ludwig Von Mises

Audio is the only medium you can consume while you're multitasking. — Alex Blumberg

Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv. — Finley Peter Dunne

To win in Australia, for me, has to be the ultimate success because the Aussies live for sport. — Ian Botham

My feeling is that it's a misreading of history to say that, as the Reagan supporters do, that Reagan won the Cold War. — Robert Dallek

There's a snake lurking in the grass. — Virgil

Marco Rubio is a talented young man, but record trumps rhetoric. — Tom Ridge