Muscedere Quotes & Sayings

If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire. They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men. If this definition is just, the British constitution is nothing more or less than a republic, in which the king is first magistrate. This office being hereditary, and being possessed of such ample and splendid prerogatives, is no objection to the government's being a republic, as long as it is bound by fixed laws, which the people have a voice in making, and a right to defend. — John Adams

Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable ... — Miles Franklin

Rather than see me or have me touch it again, it died. — Jeff Lindsay

Any play I do, anything I do in the theatre, it's absolutely essential for me in a sense, to create a family, to put a group of people together who love to share together what they're doing, rather than be individuals. — George Ogilvie

Great artists need great clients. — I.M. Pei

We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying. — Martin Middlebrook

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation ... — Samuel Johnson

It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. — Marguerite De Angeli

Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you'll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river
and you'll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you. — Alysha Speer

If I wasn't dyslexic, I probably wouldn't have won the Games. If I had been a better reader, then that would have come easily, sports would have come easily ... and I never would have realized that the way you get ahead in life is hard work. — Caitlyn Jenner

Holiness is always the saved sinner's response of gratitude for grace received. — J.I. Packer

Pop art is about liking things. — Andy Warhol