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People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
Ogden Nash
US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat
John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981-1987
US administrator (1942 - )
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
J.P. McEvoy
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-tung
Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976)
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-tung
Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976)
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983)
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine Greer
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
Clare Booth Luce
US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987)
Power is the ability not to have to please.
Elizabeth Janeway
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Katharine Hepburn
US actress (1907 - 2003)
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742 - 1799)
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell Baker
US columnist & journalist (1925 - )
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
Ogden Nash
US humorist & poet (1902 - 1971)
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French author & moralist (1613 - 1680)
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.
W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 - 1965)
Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat
John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981-1987
US administrator (1942 - )
Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.
J.P. McEvoy
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-tung
Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976)
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-tung
Chinese Communist politician (1893 - 1976)
Politeness is one half good nature and the other half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.
Rebecca West
Irish critic, journalist, & novelist (1892 - 1983)
Probably the only place where a man can feel really secure is in a maximum security prison, except for the imminent threat of release.
Germaine Greer
Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.
Mary Wilson Little
Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 - 1956)
Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
Clare Booth Luce
US diplomat, dramatist, journalist, & politician (1903 - 1987)
Power is the ability not to have to please.
Elizabeth Janeway
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do.
Katharine Hepburn
US actress (1907 - 2003)
People with bad consciences always fear the judgement of children.
Mary McCarthy
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891
Irish dramatist, novelist, & poet (1854 - 1900)
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
(1742 - 1799)
People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.
Russell Baker
US columnist & journalist (1925 - )
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.
Soren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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