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VIRGINIA CONSTITUTION & BYLAWS
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QUOTABLE QUOTES some famous, some not so famous..........
"Say what you mean, and mean what you say." --My grandfather, Farley McDavid (I have heard him say this all my life. I found words close to this in Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland. But my grandfather doesn't know how to read. So as far as I'm concerned, it's my grandfather's quote.)
"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why He makes so many of them." --Abraham Lincoln
"The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight." --Theodore Roosevelt
"Life is tough. Life is tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
"Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible." --Herbert V. Prochnow
"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone." --Charles De Gaulle
"One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.... --Marie Curie
"The more you are in the right the more natural that everyone else should be bullied into thinking likewise." -- George Orwell
"If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others." -- Francois, Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)
"The only place success comes before work is a dictionary." -- Vidal Sassoon (yes, the hair guy)
"A little rebellion now and then is a good thing." -- Thomas Jefferson
"You never get a second chance to make a good first impression." --Unknown
"I remain just one thing, and one thing only -- and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician." --Charlie Chaplin
"Variety's the very spice of life That gives it all its flavour." --William Cowper (1731-1800)
"Most women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him." --Marlene Dietrich
"The only people who like change are wet babies." --Unknown
"An old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that it was not best to swap horses in mid-stream." --Abraham Lincoln
"Slaves must be driven, free men respond to a
cause" --Richard Carr The following are excerpts from The Devil's Dictionary (1906) written by Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (1842?- 1914). He was a writer and journalist. Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. Brain, n. An apparatus with which we think that we think. Debauchee, n. One who has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it. Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me. Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and happiness is assured. Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all two. Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
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