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Ten Random Quotes

"'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?"
Dr. Charles Edwards

"When the eagles are silent the parrots begin to jabber."
Winston Churchill

"No man can have a 'yellow streak' and last. He must pay much attention to his nerves or temperament. He must hide every flaw."
Christy Mathewson

"I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one."
Oliver North

"People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet."
Sa'Di

"No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions."
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

"A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again."
Pam Brown

"The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God."
Abraham Joshua Heschel

"Fluttering and dancing in the breeze."
William Wordsworth

"All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey."
John Dryden

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