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States Quotes - Page 55

Insanity is just a state of mind.

M*A*S*H, TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1972–1983.

We don't have any bad memories of the people of the United States.

"Iran's ex-president: U.S should show goodwill". Interview with Barbara Slavin, usatoday30.usatoday.com. February 6, 2005.

O wretched state! o bosom black as death!

William Shakespeare, Edmond Malone, George Steevens, Samuel Johnson (1790). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello”, p.327

Greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

William Shakespeare (1826). “The Dramatic Works of Shakespeare”, p.54

Good temper is an estate for life.

William Hazlitt (1848). “The Miscellaneous Works”

Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.

William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.116, Modern Library

Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada are the horns, the head, the neck, the shins, and the hoof of the ox, and the United States are the ribs, the sirloin, the kidneys, and the rest of the body.

William Cobbett (1933). “The Progress of a Plough-boy to a Seat in Parliament: As Exemplified in the History of the Life of William Cobbett, Member for Oldham”

One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide.

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.167, Rowman & Littlefield

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

"Warren Buffett on Recession, Taxing the Rich, and Capitalism's 'Regenerative Capacity'". Interview with Becky Quick, www.cnbc.com. September 23, 2010.