Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category

Quote Of the Day

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” – Mark Twain

To All Prime Ministers – Past, Present & Future

“It is far safer to be feared than loved…” – Niccolò Machiavelli

A Few Weekend Quotes Relevant To Recent Canberra Musical Chairs Situation

“When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself public property.” – Thomas Jefferson “When you dig, be careful where you throw the dirt.” – WGP “The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.” – Samuel Smiles “The true measure of a man is how [...]

A Few Of My Favorite Quotes for the Weekend

“Little minds are wounded by the smallest things.” -La Rochefoucauld   “Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance”   -Sir Winston Churchill   “A meeting consists of a group of people who have little to say-until after the meeting ” -P.K Shaw

Quote of the Week

“Language is part of a mans character” -Francis Bacon

Quote of the Week

“In law, nothing is certain but the expense” -Samuel Butler

A Couple of Good Sunday Quotes

“Don’t fail for the want of trying-give it a go.”  – W.G.P   “If everybody remembered the past, nobody would ever forgive anybody.”    – Robert Lynd

Never Surrender, Winston Churchill 4 June 1940

“We shall defend our island Whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, We shall fight on the landing grounds, We shall fight in the fields And in the streets, We shall fight in the hills; We shall never surrender.” Winston Churchill 4 June 1940 Prime Minister British House of Commons

Ned Hay – Quote Of The Week

You can get almost everything accomplished if you don’t mind who gets the credit.  – Ned Hay