Potomacand Quotes & Sayings

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards. — George Eliot

Every story was being made up. My true friends weren't the ones speaking. It was people who never knew me, making up stories. Even my local paper put a $1,000 bounty out for information about my whereabouts. — Marla Maples

The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States. — Woodrow Wilson

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. — Charles Dickens

But, indeed, the science of logic and the whole framework of philosophical thought men have kept since the days of Plato and Aristotle, has no more essential permanence as a final expression of the human mind, than the Scottish Longer Catechism. — George Herbert

It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this. — Alexander McCall Smith

The hammer doesn't build the house. — Tony Horton

You are not in this world. This world is inside you. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

New York blacks could not vote unless they owned $250 in property (a qualification not applied to whites). — Howard Zinn

In that case Mr. Barrow, Mr. Gehrig is a very underpaid ballplayer. — Joe DiMaggio