"In politics nothing is contemptible."
Jean-Baptiste Colbert(08/29/1619 – 09/06/1683)
French statesman
"In politics nothing is contemptible."
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy."
Marquis de Lafayette
"This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it."
John Dalton
"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."
Jane Addams
"Dear Jack. Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
Joseph P. Kennedy
"I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill."
Sir Edward Appleton
"Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing."
Billy Rose
"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is—it is her shadow."
Philip James Bailey
"If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job."
John Berry
"For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set."
Roger Waters
"Change it to what—Tiffany? It's been an advantage. It's unforgettable. I'm the only one."
Swoosie Kurtz
"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'"
Jeff Foxworthy
"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race."
Margaret Sanger
"The infinitely competent can be uncreative."
J. E. Littlewood
"Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid! What sane man is not?"
Luciano Pavarotti
