Robert C Byrd Famous Quotes
One's family is the most important thing in life. I look at it this way One of these days I'll be over in a hospital somewhere with four walls around me. And the only people who'll be with me will be my family.
"Well, Mr. Secretary, I lived in a house without electricity too. No running water, no telephone...I can stand toe-to-toe with you. in response to Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill"
Robert C Byrd Quotations
"We do not regret the loss of our friends by reasons of their merit, but because of our needs and for the good opinion that we believed them to have held of us."
La Rochefoucauld
"I bet if you were a mummy wrapper in ancient Egypt, on thing you would constantly find yourself telling people would be, 'Be sure, before I start, you have all the jewelry and so forth on the body, because I am NOT unwrapping him later.'"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"A good word is an easy obligation but not to speak ill, requires only our silence, which costs nothing."
John Tillotson
"Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place."
Calvin Trillin
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success."
John Davidson Rockefeller Sr
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel
"Jack Me I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid."
Pirates of the Caribbean The Curse of the Black Pearl
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely re-arranging their prejudices.
William James
Nobody does good to man with impunity.
Franois Auguste Ren Rodin
Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.
Jeremy Taylor