Thomas Jefferson Spurious Quotes & Sayings

He attacked me, so I had to slit his throat with a steak knife. But not before I splashed Worcestershire sauce all over it. — Jarod Kintz

A tough man, usually ends up in prison, but a strong-minded man, will own the prison. — Anthony Liccione

tell me what you're going to do, tell me what you're doing, tell me what you did — Troy Devolld

You can't teach people everything they need to know. The best you can do is position them where they can find what they need to know when they need to know it. — Seymour Papert

I never used golf as a job. I used it as a game. I always thought if I played the game well, my financial rewards would be there, but it came from, because I played well. But I had to play well to get the financial rewards. — Jack Nicklaus

I'm a great coder. But I am not pushing that so much anymore because there are thousands of great coders. — Bill Budge

A recent survey or North American males found 42% were overweight, 34% were critically obese and 8% ate the survey. — Banksy

You know, a man ain't worth a damn if he can't cry at the right time. — Lyndon Baines Johnson Library

I didn't see a lot of women who looked like me on TV when I was growing up. — Kelly McCreary

At its core, banking is not simply about profit, but about personal relationships. — Felix Rohatyn

Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live. — Mark Twain

I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has committed to us the important task of proving by example that a government, if organized in all its parts on the Representative principle unadulterated by the infusion of spurious elements, if founded, not in the fears & follies of man, but on his reason, on his sense of right, on the predominance of the social over his dissocial passions, may be so free as to restrain him in no moral right, and so firm as to protect him from every moral wrong. — Thomas Jefferson

Given how fast the world moves today, grabbing opportunities is more important than ever. Few managers have the time to carefully consider all the applicants for a job, much less convince more reticent people to apply. And increasingly, opportunities are not well defined but, instead, come from someone jumping in to do something. That something then becomes his job. — Sheryl Sandberg

I grew up in Burbank - but not the Burbank of valet parking and TV studios. In the late 1950s, there was a small apartment complex on Elmwood Avenue that rented mostly to families on welfare. I lived there from age 3 to 11 and again from 14 to 18 with my mother, Shirley, and my younger sister, Toni. — Rene Russo