The Last Word

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy.
—Spike Milligan

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
—Mark Twain

May our country always be successful, but successful or otherwise, always right.
—John Quincy Adams

Not by force of arms are subtle people held together, but by subtle threads of intellectual principle.
—Russel Kirk

We owe it to our ancestors to preserve entire those rights, which they have delivered to our care; we owe it to our posterity, no to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed.
—Anonymous

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.
—Richard Nixon

This fellow they've nominated claims he's the new Thomas Jefferson. Well, let me tell you something. I knew Thomas Jefferson. He was a friend of mine. And governor, you're no Thomas Jefferson.
—Ronald Reagan

There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100 per cent Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
—George S. Patton

I'm very dubious of all sorts of government solutions.
—Alan Greenspan

What is conservativism? Is it not the adherence to the old and tried against the new and untried?
—Abraham Lincoln

The Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club.
—Dave Barry

Talk low, talk slow, and don't say too much.
—John Wayne

In manners, artisocratic; in religion, ritualistic; in art, traditional.
—John Crowe Ransom

Sharma, just one of many anxious freshmen anxious, repeated several times that she was going to fail event though she has religiously attend TA sessions religiously.
—Jessica Chen, The Dartmouth, 10/15/04.

Poker is a lot like sex; everyone thinks they're good at it, but most people have no idea what they're doing.
—Jay Lovinger

Every man's last day is fixed. Lifetimes are brief, and not to be regained for all mankind. But by their deeds to make their fame last, that is the labor for the brave.
—Virgil

Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves.
—Robert Wilson Anson

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
—Abraham Lincoln

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.
—R.D. Laing

It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
—Evelyn Waugh

I improve on misquotation.
—Cary Grant

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