Mitcham Lane Quotes & Sayings

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society. — Thomas Jefferson

I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up ... These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with. — Mark Twain

Don't be irritated at people's smell or bad breath. What's the point? With that mouth, with those armpits, they're going to produce that odor. - But they have a brain! Can't they figure it out? Can't they recognize the problem? So you have a brain as well. Good for you. Then use your logic to awaken his. Show him. Make him realize it. If he'll listen, then you'll have solved the problem. Without anger. — Marcus Aurelius

Memory is both the curse of grief and the eventual talisman against it; what at first seems unbearable becomes the succor that can outlast pain. — Gail Caldwell

It was good, it was bad. But it was real, and that's all you have. — Enrique Iglesias

I suspect there have been a number of conspiracies that never were described or leaked out. But I suspect none of the magnitude and sweep of Watergate. — Bob Woodward

If peace is our single aim in all we do, we will always know what to do because we will do whatever will protect and deepen our peace. — Gerald Jampolsky

there is no class that cannot be wiped out if a sufficient number of its members are murdered. — Hannah Arendt

I replied that you could never change your life, that in any case one life was as good as another and that I wasn't at all dissatisfied with mine here. — Albert Camus

I'm from South Georgia, so my mom, she always cooked some dang good food when I was growing up. — Phillip Phillips

For on Cardinal Rohan saying to me that the Italians did not understand war, I replied that the French did not understand politics. — Niccolo Machiavelli

In the real world of competition, the players want to compete and they want to compete at the very highest level. — Vince McMahon

When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers. — Humphry Davy

Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard. — Jentezen Franklin