D W Brogan Famous Quotes
"For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the issue is brought home to them, war becomes as important, for the necessary period, as business or sport. And it is hard to decide which is likely to be the more ominous for the Axis -- an American decision that this is sport, or that it is business."
D W Brogan Quotations
Any clod can have the facts having opinions is an art.
Charles McCabe
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
Coco Chanel
"Look to this day For it is life, the very life of life. For yesterday is but a dream And tomorrow is only a vision But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness And tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well, therefore, to this day Such is the salutation of the dawn."
Kalidasa
"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles."
Ambrose Bierce
It is not observed in history that families improve with time.
George William Curtis
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him."
Charles De Gaulle
"It's all in the day's work, as the huntsman said when the lion ate him."
Charles Kingsley
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Bette Midler
If you know it's going to happen there's no need to call it a dream.
Eric Pio
"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."
W Somerset Maugham