Memorable Quotes - Page 13

See you little guys later.

On June 22, 2008, at the age of 71, an American revolutionary died. He was a bona fide genius, an outspoken critich, a literary giant and an unprecedented visionary. For 50 years he entertained, challenged and amazed not only my generation, but also ones before mine and well after. He was sensational, brilliant, iconic and unique - the quintessential individual. He was my lifelong hero. His name was George Carlin.

Those who can serve best, those who help most, those who sacrifice most, those are the people who will be loved in life and honoured in death, when all questions of colour are swept away and when in a free country free citizens shall meet on equal grounds.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the "dahling" thing got started?

Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground.

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

The most popular labor saving device is still money.

I may be a dumb blonde, but I'm not that blonde.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.

It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten.

And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed by accident, or one house burned, or one vessel wrecked, or one steamboat blown up, or one cow run over on the Western Railroad, or one mad dog killed, or one lot of grasshoppers in the winter, - we need never read of another. One is enough. If you are acquainted with the principle, what do you care for a myriad instances and applications?

Ladies and gentlemen, well may we say 'God Save the Queen', because nothing will save the Governor-General. The proclamation you have just heard was countersigned Malcolm Fraser, who will go down in history as Kerr's cur.

Whether women are better than men I cannot say - but I can say they are certainly no worse.

They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.

I started out thinking of America as highways and state lines. As I got to know it better, I began to think of it as rivers.

Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose.

To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.

Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy.

The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.