Dolly Payne Todd Madison Famous Quotes
I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue.
Dolly Payne Todd Madison Quotations
"People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives."
J Michael Straczynski
Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.
Dinah Mulock Craik
"When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully."
W Somerset Maugham
"A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack."
Lois McMaster Bujold
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva
"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."
Grace Murray Hopper
"The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be."
Raymond Chandler
How is it possible to expect mankind to take advice when they will not so much as take warning
Jonathan Swift
Success is the child of audacity.
Benjamin Disraeli
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
William Shakespeare