Mario M Cuomo Famous Quotes
"We must get the American public to look past the glitter, beyond the showmanship, to the reality, the hard substance of things. And we'll do it ... not so much with speeches that will bring people to their feet as with speeches that bring people to their senses."
You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.
"I have no plans, and no plans to plan."
I said I didn't want to run for president. I didn't ask you to believe me.
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."
"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.
Mario M Cuomo Quotations
The quality of a university is measured more by the kind of student it turns out than the kind it takes in.
Robert J Kibbee
The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost.
William Carlos Williams
Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
Unknown
"Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME."
Anon
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle
"Unless men see a beauty and delight in the worship of God, they will not do it willingly."
John Owen
"If you see an animal and you can't tell if it's a skunk or a cat, here's a good saying to help 'Black-and-white, stinks all right. Tabby-colored, likes a fella.'"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
The surest way to be deceived is to think oneself cleverer than the others.
La Rochefoucauld
"If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein