Harry S Truman
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Published: October 23, 2026 00:00
"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."
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Harry S Truman
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Harry_S_Truman
Published: October 23, 2026 00:00
"It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours."
Scott Adams
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Scott_Adams
Published: October 23, 2026 00:00
"If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"
Ellen Herman
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ellen_Herman
Published: October 23, 2026 00:00
"Joel: That's the movies, Ed. Try reality./ Ed: No thanks."
Ogden Nash
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ogden_Nash
Published: October 23, 2026 00:00
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
Don Herold
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Don_Herold
Published: October 22, 2026 00:00
"There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have."
Rita Holt
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Rita_Holt
Published: October 22, 2026 00:00
"There it was, hidden in alphabetical order."
Steven Weinberg
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Steven_Weinberg
Published: October 22, 2026 00:00
"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy."
Sue Murphy
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Sue_Murphy
Published: October 22, 2026 00:00
"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives."
Thomas Henry Huxley
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Thomas_Henry_Huxley
Published: October 21, 2026 00:00
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
Randy K. Milholland
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Randy_K._Milholland
Published: October 21, 2026 00:00
"Ah, sweet alcohol. Like a true friend, you replace the anger with better, louder anger."
Robertson Davies
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Robertson_Davies
Published: October 21, 2026 00:00
"To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser."
Harry Shearer
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Harry_Shearer
Published: October 21, 2026 00:00
"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?"
Oscar Wilde
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Oscar_Wilde
Published: October 20, 2026 00:00
"Biography lends to death a new terror."
W. C. Fields
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/W._C._Fields
Published: October 20, 2026 00:00
"I've never struck a woman in my life, not even my own mother."
Arlo Guthrie
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Arlo_Guthrie
Published: October 20, 2026 00:00
"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."
Dave Barry
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dave_Barry
Published: October 20, 2026 00:00
"I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me."
Johann von Neumann
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Johann_von_Neumann
Published: October 19, 2026 00:00
"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."
Nicholas Chamfort
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Nicholas_Chamfort
Published: October 19, 2026 00:00
"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living."
Anais Nin
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Anais_Nin
Published: October 19, 2026 00:00
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are."
Samuel Butler
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Samuel_Butler
Published: October 19, 2026 00:00
"People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable."
Doug Larson
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Doug_Larson
Published: October 18, 2026 00:00
"Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own."
Laurence J. Peter
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Laurence_J._Peter
Published: October 18, 2026 00:00
"Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status."
Moses Hadas
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Moses_Hadas
Published: October 18, 2026 00:00
"This book fills a much-needed gap."
Seth Hoffman
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Seth_Hoffman
Published: October 18, 2026 00:00
"Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds."
Dan Rather
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Dan_Rather
Published: October 17, 2026 00:00
"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic."
Mark Twain
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Mark_Twain
Published: October 17, 2026 00:00
"I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell-you see, I have friends in both places."
Ellen DeGeneres
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Ellen_DeGeneres
Published: October 17, 2026 00:00
"I was coming home from kindergarten--well they told me it was kindergarten. I found out later I had been working in a factory for ten years. It's good for a kid to know how to make gloves."
Douglas Adams
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Douglas_Adams
Published: October 17, 2026 00:00
"Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Francois_de_La_Rochefoucauld
Published: October 16, 2026 00:00
"We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us."
Benjamin Disraeli
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Benjamin_Disraeli
Published: October 16, 2026 00:00
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
Eugene McCarthy
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Eugene_McCarthy
Published: October 16, 2026 00:00
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."
Luis Bunuel
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Luis_Bunuel
Published: October 16, 2026 00:00
"I'm still an atheist, thank God."