Phillip Riback > Phillip's Quotes

“The way he talked about moving south reminded us of the Joads in Grapes of Wrath. He was a smart kid, but all he was thinking about was peaches.
-Only Shot At A Good Tombstone, page 24”
― Robert R. Mitchell, Only Shot At A Good Tombstone

“You can call a jackass a thoroughbred but that doesn't make it so.”
― attributed to Abraham Lincoln

“Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and even life itself, is a kind of commodity. These critics, having eaten, now study their excrement to see what they consumed. On this they base certain conclusions. Their ignorance is uncompromising. Let us rather stand before the unknown, in very humble, quiet observance and wait while it reveals itself.”
― Phillip Mann, The Disestablishment of Paradise

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”
― Helen Keller

“Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother in law to hear at your trial”
― Sydney Biddle Barrows , Uncensored Sales Strategies: A Radical New Approach to Selling Your Customers What They Really Want - No Matter What Business You're In

“I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.”
― Edward Gibbon

“We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-”
― Mark Twain, Leo Tolstoy, jane austen, CHARLES DICKENS, Victor Hugo, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

“In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for most was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free and was never free again.”
― Margaret Thatcher

“The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.”
― Walter Bagehot

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“When the well is dry we know the value of water”
― Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.”
― Gracie Allen

“Patience and time do more than force and rage.”
― Jean de La Fontaine

“The only man who never makes a mistake is the one one who never does anything.”
― Teddy Roosevelt

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”
― Stephen Bantu Biko, Black Consciousness in South Africa

“It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.”
― Publilius Syrus

“Flattery is alright if you don't inhale.”
― Adlai Stevenson Samper, Pacho Galan: El Rey del Merecumbe

“Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.”
― James Baldwin

“Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Storm of Swords

“Show me a good and gracious loser and I will show you a failure.”
― Knute Rockne, Coaching

“Be nice to people on your way up because you will meet them on your way down.”
― Wilson Mizner

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”
― James Thurber

“Well timed silence has more eloquence than speech.”
― Martin Farquhar Tupper, My Life as an Author

“When infants aren't held, they can become sick, even die. It's universally accepted that children need love, but at what age are people supposed to stop needing it? We never do. We need love in order to live happily, as much as we need oxygen in order to live at all.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

“Just never forget to be dexterous and deft.
And never mix up your right foot with your left.
And will you succeed?
Yes! You will, indeed!
(98 and 3/4 percent guaranteed.)”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

“There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights.”
― Marilyn Monroe, Fragments: Poems, Intimate Notes, Letters

“. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.”
― Steve Martin, Cruel Shoes

“I just believe that the interesting time in a career is pre-success, what shaped things, how did you get to this point?”
― Steve Martin, Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

“...a young man, Jamaican, perhaps, his head circled in a scarf with sunbleached dreadlocks on piled on top, looking like a plate of soft-shell crabs.”
― Steve Martin, An Object of Beauty