Stumping Avocado Quotes & Sayings

It's all a big hoax, honey. I never wrote a song in my life. I get one-third of the credit for recording it. It makes me look smarter than I am. I've never even had an idea for a song. Just once, mybe. — Elvis Presley

In offering one's opinion, one must first ascertain whether or not the recipient is in the right frame of mind to receive counsel. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

No one in this world comes from nothing. — Elizabeth Strout

True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Do as I say, not as I do. That's the OSG way. — Elle Casey

I'm a big yachting fan. — David Cunliffe

There is no structural organization of society which can bring about the coming of the Kingdom of God on earth since all systems can be perverted by the selfishness of man. The Malvern Manifesto: Drawn up by a Conference of the Province of York, January 10, 1941; signed for the Conference by Temple, then Archbishop of York . — William Temple

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading. — Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper

That stinking mirror doesn't lie. Every time I walk by it shouts out, 'Hey. Chub. When are you going to lose those 15 pounds of ugly-ass flab? — Ellen Hopkins

It's like a firstborn son: you spend your life working for him, sacrificing everything for him, and at the moment of truth, he does just as he pleases. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Why was Simpson called "OJ" except in some kind of branding or headlinese that said, "Look, this guy is sweet, wholseome, and nourishing (and 'Orenthal' is just too fancy)? You can have him for breakfast." (And "Sweetness" and "Sweet" are nicknames often given to black men.) Is "OJ" that far away from Jell-O? Wasn't that extended advertising campaign a way of saying you can trust our pudding because Bill Cosby likes it - sweet, wholesome, and pretty? — David Thomson

For critics, as they are birds of prey, have ever a natural inclination to carrion. — Alexander Pope

I marvel your ladyship takes delight in such a barren rascal. I saw him put down the other day with an 80 ordinary fool that has no more brain than a stone. Look you now, he's out of his guard already; unless you laugh and minister occasion to him, he is gagged. I protest I take these wise men, that crow so at these set kind of fools, no better than the fools' zanies. — William Shakespeare

I know enough to know that when you're in a pickle ... call Mom. — Jennifer Garner