Claud Cockburn Famous Quotes



Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.


Claud Cockburn Quotations






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Early to bed and early to rise probably indicates unskilled labor.
John Anthony Ciardi

We are living beyond our means. As a people we have developed a lifestyle that is draining the earth of its priceless and irreplaceable resources without regard for the future of our children and people all around the world.
Margaret Mead

"He not only overflowed with learning, he stood in the slop."
Sydney Smith

One should be just as careful in choosing one's pleasures as in avoiding calamities.
Chinese Proverb

My concern today is not with the length of a person's hair but with his conduct. (On campus radicals)
Richard Milhous Nixon

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action.
Pythagoras

Stan Bad guy can't win. It's a morality tale. One way or the other - he's gotta go down.
Swordfish

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will Rogers

The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
Humphrey Davy

"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe