Eubie Famous Quotes



Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind - listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.

"Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion."

"A politician thinks of the next election a statesman, of the next generation."


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More Famous Quotes


There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de Montaigne

"The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness."
Andre Malraux

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.
Rosalynn Carter

"Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved."
Niccolo Machiavelli

Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
Spanish Proverb

A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest."
Pearl Bailey

Oh too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman's eye the unanswerable tear
Lord Byron

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde

"I cannot help but wonder whether, by continuing and expanding the school lunch program, we aren't witnessing, if not encouraging, the slow demise of yet another American tradition the brown bag. ... Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links child to home."
Charles Mathias Jr