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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)




Gift Ideas
Gift Ideas