Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Rogers

It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.

William Feather

One of the funny things about the stock market is that every time one person buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.

William Faulkner

War and drink are the two things man is never too poor to buy.

William Faulkner

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.

Whoopi Goldberg

I don't like driving very much. That makes me very unhappy, because I scream a lot in the car, but other than that, life is actually pretty good.

Warren Spahn

Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

Ronald Reagan

I have left orders to be awakened at any time during national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.

Ronald Reagan

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Ronald Reagan

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

Ronald Reagan

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

Ronald Reagan

If you're explaining, you're losing.

Ronald Reagan

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience.

Ronald Reagan

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Ronald Reagan

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

Ronald Reagan

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpoint if necessary.

Ronald Reagan

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

Ronald Reagan

A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?

Ronald Reagan

I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.

Ronald Reagan

One picture is worth 1,000 denials.

Ronald Reagan

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Ronald Reagan

Before I refuse to take your questions, I have an opening statement.

Ronald Reagan

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

Ronald Reagan

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Ronald Reagan

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Ronald Reagan

Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders.

Ronald Reagan

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.

Ronald Reagan

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

Ronald Reagan

My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.

Ronald Reagan

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Ronald Reagan

I've noticed that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.

Ronald Reagan

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.