Jibes With Quotes & Sayings

Second, and in the same breath, constitutions seek to discipline politics and to limit government power. — Michael S. Greve

Our hope is that a new manager, along with roster improvements, will restore a winning culture. — Larry Beinfest

I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is thanked by their jibes, is an interesting character. — Preston Sturges

The world that jibes your tenderness / Jails your lust. — Carson McCullers

The day Spenkelink was put to death a popular Jacksonville disc jockey aired a recording of sizzling bacon and dedicated it to the doomed man. — Stephen G. Michaud

Yet all I could think about was how much I wanted to take Laine to bed. Feel her twisted under me, hear her cry out for me. I wanted to share sweat and skin, to blend a scent of our own making. — Anonymous

When the people rule, they must be rendered happy, or they will overturn the state. — Alexis De Tocqueville

She missed sharing a small world with this one woman, this one person who would always love her more than anyone else could. — Caela Carter

Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment. — Chogyam Trungpa

A man who despises himself so much that the only way he can alleviate his feelings of inferiority is by stomping down his wife's personality with a daily stream of nasty jibes. — Liane Moriarty

Although still viewed as lovely and alluring by many, Winston Churchill's mother shocked society when at 46 she married a man 20 years her junior. Most malicious of the many jibes launched at her was that of one lady who went about peering into perambulators. When asked her reason, she replied, "I am searching for my future husband." — Anne Sebba

A being disappeared who was protected by none, dear to none, interesting to none, and who never even attracted to himself the attention of those students of human nature who omit no opportunity of thrusting a pin through a common fly, and examining it under the microscope. A being who bore meekly the jibes of the department, and went to his grave without having done one unusual deed, but to whom, nevertheless, at the close of his life appeared a bright visitant in the form of a cloak, which momentarily cheered his poor life, and upon whom, thereafter, an intolerable misfortune descended, just as it descends upon the mighty of this world! — Nikolai Gogol

And you know, we'd go to church. We were Baptists. And every now and then there'd be a tent would set up, and it was the Holiness folks. And we liked their music. — Mel Tillis

My music has shaken hands with the world somehow - it's a beautiful disease, and I'm glad I got it. — R. Kelly

That's what siblings are: a reality check. Try to become someone you're not - affect an accent, or start quoting the temperature in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit- and they're the ones who smack you upside the head. Siblings are like potters; they try you by fire, glaze you with taunts, finish you with well-aimed jibes. If you emerge from that kiln without cracking, you can survive the world. — Lisa Takeuchi Cullen

Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery. — Jack Paar

What would have been the fate of sages if there were no fools? — Ogwo David Emenike

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions. — Warren G. Bennis

I'm appreciative that people appreciate the care I've taken of my feet. — Toks Olagundoye

It is much more likely that you will attain liberation if you want liberation for others, than just for yourself. — Frederick Lenz

His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivided and squalid way of life. His soul was still disquieted and cast down by the dull phenomenon of Dublin. He had emerged from a two years' spell of revery to find himself in the midst of a new scene, every event and figure of which affected him intimately, disheartened him or allured and, whether alluring or disheartening, filled him always with unrest and bitter thoughts. All the leisure which his school life left him was passed in the company of subversive writers whose jibes and violence of speech set up a ferment in his brain before they passed out of it into his crude writings. — James Joyce