
Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped,
probably arboreal in its habits.
- Charles Darwin
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
I'd like to kiss ya, but I just washed ma hair.
- the movie The Cabin in the Cotton
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
Mind Chatter...
"I'm too fat; I'm too thin; and my hair is a fright;
And I'm never enough; and my world is not right;
I'm not smart; I'm not cute; I'm not strong; I'm a bust
I earn scorn; I earn hate; I'm no good; I disgust."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon
We all have our thorns. We, and Life, have our moments.
Life occurs before our morning coffee.
Life occurs in our bathrobe with our hair uncombed.
Bless and give thanks for All of Life - the bloom and the thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Judgment is discernment on a bad hair day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gather yourself by the sea shore and I will love you there.
Assemble yourself with wild things,
with songs of the sparrow and sea-foam.
Let mad beauty collect itself in your eyes
and it will shine - Calling me.
For I long for a man with nests of wild things in his hair.
A man who will Kiss the Flame.
- Jewel
It really does matter when we tell even the slightest untruth.
Even something as well intentioned as
telling someone their ill-finished
hair style looks wonderful will backfire -
certainly karmically, and usually practically.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Ever had a bad hair day -
a day when everything seemed to be going wrong?
Perhaps today is a day to soothe your ruffled feathers,
take a deep breath, and reaffirm that
the weight of the world is really not on your shoulders,
unless you choose to assume that burden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I don't advise a haircut, man.
All hairdressers are in the employment of the government.
Hairs are your aerials.
They pick up signals from the cosmos,
and transmit them directly into the brain.
This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight.
- the movie Withnail & I
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone
I love not to mix with it.
- Thomas Jefferson
A doctor can bury his mistakes
but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
The physician can bury his mistakes,
but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines -
so they should go as far as possible from home
to build their first buildings.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
In every society some men are born to rule,
and some to advise.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I never considered a difference of opinion
in politics, in religion, in philosophy,
as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
- Thomas Jefferson
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous.
In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
- John F. Kennedy
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up
in our politics and say definite things which mean something,
or whether we shall always go on using generalities
to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
- Winston Churchill
In war, you can only be killed once,
but in politics, many times.
- Winston Churchill
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk
about women who are active in politics,
whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
- John F. Kennedy
I was losing interest in politics,
when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again.
What I have done since then is pretty well known.
- Abraham Lincoln
Politics are very much like war.
We may even have to use poison gas at times.
- Winston Churchill
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and,
in its true sense, a noble one.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics
do not know what religion is.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
I am never going to have anything more to do
with politics or politicians.
When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely
to writing and painting.
- Winston Churchill
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen
who would protect the rights and privileges of free people
and who would preserve what is
good and fruitful in our national heritage.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
- Albert Einstein
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Never call an accountant a credit to his profession;
a good accountant is a debit to his profession.
- Charles Lyell
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
- Winston Churchill
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller
I read that you should never go out with someone
if you can think of three reasons why you shouldn't.
- the movie Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004)
You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly,
but I bet you ain't never seen a DONKEY fly!
- the movie Shrek (2001)
Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry
always gets the best of the argument.
- Voltaire
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
- Zsa Zsa Gabor
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I never accepted the idea
that I had to be guided by
some pattern or blueprint.
- Little Richard
Never trust spiritual leader who doesn't dance.
- Miyagi: character in the movie The Next Karate Kid
One should never trust a woman who tells her real age.
If she tells that, she'll tell anything.
- Oscar Wilde
The way for a young man to rise is
to improve himself in every way he can,
never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- Abraham Lincoln
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
A person who never made a mistake
never tried anything new.
- Albert Einstein
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde
You are Never Too Old to Give or Get Gold Stars.
Show Your Honest Appreciation - Today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Until you've lost your reputation,
you never realize what a burden it was.
- Margaret Mitchell
I never make stupid mistakes.
Only very, very clever ones.
- John Peel
Which form of proverb do you prefer
Better late than never, or Better never than late?
- Lewis Carroll
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
Do not take life too seriously.
You will never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
Never stir up litigation.
A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this.
- Abraham Lincoln
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill
You never can tell with bees.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.
- Confucius
Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller
Never put off till tomorrow
what you can do the day after tomorrow.
- Mark Twain
Stay Happy, never let anyone get your goat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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