Ransberger Antique Quotes & Sayings

Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing. — Tite Kubo

It may be a union in name, but they fight each other tooth and nail. The lowly squabble over trifles. The great wage secret wars for power and wealth, and they call it government. Wars of words, and tricks, and guile, but no less bloody for that. The casualties are many. — Joe Abercrombie

A defensive war is apt to betray us into too frequent detachment. Those generals who have had but little experience attempt to protect every point, while those who are better acquainted with their profession, having only the capital object in view, guard against a decisive blow, and acquiesce in small misfortunes to avoid greater. — Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor

The only reason why world war 2 happened was because Chuck Norris decided to take a nap. — Lars Anderson

It is a general popular error to imagine the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare. — Edmund Burke

Some girls they like candy and others they like to grind. I'll settle for the back of your hand somewhere on my behind. — Madonna Ciccone

Even monsters need a person who truly wants to listen - to hear - so that someday we might find the words that are more than boxes. — Rene Denfeld

An announcer is only as good as yesterday's performance. — Curt Gowdy

It's painful to listen to the barking of dogs. — Nizar Qabbani

When I first left drama school, I was too posh for the working-class parts and not posh enough for the upper-class roles. You know what England is like: the gradations of accent and how you're judged by them are still there. I discovered that to get a break you have to lie about where you're from. — Ben Chaplin

Life's not linear at all. It happens in lighting flashes. So fast you don't see those lay-you-out cold moments coming at you until you're Wile E. Coyote, steamrolled flat as a pancake by the Road Runner, victim of your own elaborate schemes. — Karen Marie Moning

Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf. — Lee Kuan Yew

Fiction is often most powerful when the author is exploring an issue - and not writing like a know-it-all who has the perfect answer. — Gillian Cross