"Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not."
George Granville(03/09/1666 – 01/29/1735)
English writer
"Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not."
George Granville
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."
Thomas Paine
"A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me."
King George III
"My wife, be careful, Cortelyou, how you tell her—oh, be careful."
William McKinley
"I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries."
Romain Rolland
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
"My illness is due to my doctor's insistence that I drink milk, a whitish fluid they force down helpless babies."
W. C. Fields
"There was an Old Man with a beard,
"Look a here people, listen to me,
"The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train."
Martha Wright Griffiths
"I'm no actor—and I have sixty-four pictures to prove it."
Victor Mature
"Knocked down a doctor? With an ambulance? How could she? It's a contradiction in terms!"
N. F. Simpson
"Now listen to me, goddamnit! The Arabs are simplying buying us! A handful of agas, shahs, and emirs who despise this country and everything it stands for—democracy, freedom, the right for me to get up on television and tell you about it—a couple of dozen medieval fanatics are going to own where you work, where you live, what you read, what you see, your cars, your bowling alleys, your mortgages, your schools, your churches, your libraries, your kids, your whole life...!"
Paddy Chayefsky
"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
Edward Abbey
"[The 17th Earl of Derby] is a very weak-minded fellow I am afraid, and, like the feather pillow, bears the marks of the last person who has sat on him."
Earl Douglas Haig
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
Sara Teasdale
"Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It has no mother."
Germaine Greer
"Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry."
William Butler Yeats
"Don't accept rides from strange men, and remember that all men are strange."
Robin Morgan
"Consistency is the paste jewel that only cheap men cherish."
William Allen White
"I found that prickly stuff above the lip is what women are up against."
Tom Selleck
"When I was a teenager, I was Little Miss Gloves... I couldn't say 'Hey, man' to save my life."
Ann Jillian
"All my life I have always known I was born to greatness."
Oprah Winfrey
"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl."
H. L. Mencken
"Genius is an overused word. The world has known only about a half dozen geniuses. I got only fairly near."
Fritz Kreisler
"I have the face of an aging choirboy and the build of an undernourished featherweight. If you can figure out my success on the screen you're a better man than I."
Alan Ladd
"I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check."
Edward Burns
"Whenever I meet people who seem really sweet and unassuming, I kind of wonder about them."
Heather Graham
"The chief incalculable in war is the human will."
B. H. Liddell Hart
John Barrymore: "You should play Hamlet."
"The only things I spend my money on are phone bills and guitars."
Jonny Lang
"Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?"
Lili St. Cyr
