Quotes of the Month

 

War is a tragedy which commonly destroys the stage it is acted on.

- Matthew Henry

 

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.
- John F Kennedy

 

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. - John Philpot Curran

 

God grants liberty only to those who love, and are always ready to guard and defend it. - Daniel Webster

 

He who serves his country well has no need of ancestors. - F Voltaire

 

If a man’s religion does not affect his use of money, that man’s religion is vain.
- Hugh Martin

 

Money is like muck, no good unless it is spread.- Francis Bacon

 

Let earth and heaven combine,
Angels and men agree,
To praise in songs divine
The incarnate Deity,
Our God contracted to a span,
Incomprehensibly made man.
Charles Wesley

 

I hate to see men overdressed; a man ought to look like he’s put together by accident, not added up on purpose.

-Christopher Morley

 

I like calm hats and I don’t wear spats
But I want my neckties wild!
- Stoddard King

 

Fashion is that by which the fantastic becomes for the moment the universal.
- Oscar Wilde

 

Good clothes open all doors.- Thomas Fuller

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A drama critic is a person who surprises the playwright by informing him what he meant.- Wilson Mizner

 

Opera, in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as cricket in Italian. - anon

 

I have met only one perfect man, and he was a perfect nuisance! - CH Spurgeon

 

If you fall, don’t give up, get up! - Anon

 

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won’t.- Henry Ward Beecher

Philosophy is saying what everybody knows in language that nobody can understand.- J F Taviner

 

Piety means letting God bend your will, not just your knees.- Anon

 

If you want to get rid of somebody, just tell ’em something for their own good.
- Frank McKinney Hubbard

 

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.- Don Herold

 

The weather reports these days remind us of Mark Twain’s ‘136 varieties of New England weather’. In that masterpiece he referred to the forecasters as not knowing what to predict, so their predictions went like this:


“Probably northeast to southwest winds, varying to the southward and westward and eastward and points in between; high and low barometer sweeping around from place to place; probable areas of rain, snow, hail and drought succeeded or preceded by earthquakes, with thunder and lightning.”

 

 

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