michele bachmann quotes

To perceive Christmas through its wrapping becomes more difficult with every year. ~E.B. White, "The Distant Music of the Hounds," The Second Tree from the Corner, 1954



I've got dreams in hidden places and extra smiles for when I'm blue. ~Author Unknown



Statistics may be defined as "a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty." ~W.A. Wallis



That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore. ~Michael Patrick King, Sex and the City, "The Good Fight"



The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist. ~T.H. Huxley, "Evolution and Ethics," 1893



I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left. ~Voltaire



Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. ~Grover Cleveland, 1905



No man is a failure who is enjoying life. ~William Feather



I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. ~Diane Ackerman



Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. ~Charles Caleb Colton



Men are those creatures with two legs and eight hands. ~Jayne Mansfield



Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be. ~Duane Michals



Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. ~George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872



If the sole reason why you must not kill your neighbour is because God has forbidden it and will severely punish you for it in this or the next life - then, when you learn that there is no God and that you need not fear His punishment, you will certainly kill your neighbour without hesitation, and you can only be prevented from doing so by mundane force. Thus either these dangerous masses must be held down most severely and kept most carefully away from any chance of intellectual awakening, or else the relationship between civilization and religion must undergo a fundamental revision. ~Sigmund Freud, The Future of an Illusion



Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord.



If vegetarians eat vegetables, what do humanitarians eat? ~Author Unknown



The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through eternity. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



You can't hide your true colours as you approach the autumn of your life. ~Author Unknown



One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. ~Will Durant



As it takes two to make a quarrel, so it takes two to make a disease, the microbe and its host. ~Charles V. Chapin