IMPROMPTU TOPICS--QUOTATIONS

Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

--John F. Kennedy

The computer is a moron.

--Peter Drucker

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

--Flip Wilson

Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

--John F. Kennedy

Don't complain. Don't explain.

--Henry Ford II

Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.

--Andrew Young

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there.

--Colonel Sanders

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing to the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

--John F. Kennedy

All currency is neurotic currency.

--Norman O. Brown

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes.

--Gore Vidal

There is no such thing as a free lunch.

--Milton Friedman

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

--John F. Kennedy

The only thing we learn from history is that we do not learn.

--Earl Warren

We develop the kind of citizens we deserve.

--Robert F. Kennedy

Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.

--Albert Einstein

Nothing recedes like success.

--Walter Winchell

One fifth of the people are against everything all of the time.

--Robert F. Kennedy

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

--John F. Kennedy

Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with people.

--Don Corleone

The reason why worry kills more people than works is that more people worry than work.

--Robert Frost

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

--Golda Meir

If we cannot now end our differences at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

--John F. Kennedy

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

--Ayn Rand

Choice has always been a privilege of those who could pay for it.

--Ellen Frankfort

The buck stops with the guy who signs the checks.

--Rupert Murdock

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

--John F. Kennedy

Money is the barometer of society's virtue.

I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.

--Bill Cosby

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm still a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. SIGH. There's so little hope for advancement.

--Snoopy

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

--John F. Kennedy

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.

--Earl Wilson

An honest man is one who knows that he can't consume more than he has produced.

--Ayn Rand

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

--Henry Miller

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

--John F. Kennedy

We can never have enough of that we all do not want.

--Eric Hoffer

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

--J. Paul Getty

The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us for what we have.

--Dr. Joyce Brothers

The man who damns money has obtained it dishonestly; the man who respects it has earned it.

--Ayn Rand

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

--John F. Kennedy

People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.

--Eric Hoffer

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them anyway.

--Ronald Reagan.

The government solution to a problem is usually as bad as the problem.

--Milton Friedman

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

--Michael Kordo

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back again when it begins to rain.

--Robert Frost

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

--Aristotle Onassis

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.

--Walter Kerr

People are not born bastards. They have to work at it.

--Rod McKuen

Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push and you push alone.

--Laurence Peter

Be awful nice to 'em going up, because you're gonna meet 'em all comin' down.

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph. D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

--Fats Domino

Nowadays people can be divided into three classes--The Haves, the Have-Nots, and the Have-Not-Paid-For-What-They-Haves.

--Earl Wilson

A genius is one who can do anything except make a living.

--Joey Adams

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

--Mike Romanoff

The world is full of willing people--some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

--Robert Frost

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.

--Walter Lippman

The real problem is what to do with the problem-solvers after the problems are solved.

--Gay Talese

Obviously, the answer to oil spills is to paper-train the tankers.

--Ralph Nader

Man cannot live by incompetence alone.

--Laurence Peter

The feminine mystique has succeeded in burying millions of American women alive.

--Betty Friedman

A liberated woman is one who feels confident in herself, and is happy in what she is doing. She is a person who has a sense of self--it all comes down to a freedom of choice.

--Betty Ford

If I have to, I can do anything. I am strong; I an invincible; I am a woman.

--Helen Reddy

Anatomy is destiny.

--Sigmund Freud

Boys will be boys these days and so, apparently, will girls.

--Jane Howard

If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.

--Florynce Kennedy

All men are rapists and that's all they are. They rape us with their eyes, their laws, and their codes.

--Marilyn French

The image of a woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

--Kate Millett

The notion that the maternal wish and the activity of mothering are instinctive or biologically predestined is baloney.

--Betty Rollin

The biggest sin is sitting on your ass.

--Florynce Kennedy

I don't think that man is a woman's natural enemy. Perhaps his lawyer is.

--Shana Alexander

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

--Clare Boothe Luce

Don't agonize. Organize.

--Florynce Kennedy

God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made women.

--Adela Rogers St. John

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.

--Cornelia Otis Skinner

Work is not really new for women; what is new for women is the chance to be leaders.

--Clay Felker

You cannot decree women to be sexually free when they are not economically free.

--Shere Hite

No gesture is more gallant than the courage to spit in the eye.

There is a fine line between being sweet and innocent and being a tough broad.

--Phyllis George

A sharp knife cuts the quickest and hurts the least.

--Katherine Hepburn

Women--the greatest natural resource in the world today.

--Edward Steichen

Freedom, especially a woman's freedom, is a conquest to be made, not a gift to be received. It isn't granted. It must be taken.

--Federico Fellini

We have the right to our own bodies.

--Shere Hite

All too many men still seem to believe in a rather naive and egocentric way, that what feels good to them is automatically what feels good to women.

--Shere Hite

Free to be you and me.

--Marlo Thomas

All human life on the planet is born of women.

--Adrienne Rich

The woman is the fiber of the nation. She is the producer of life. A nation is only as good as its women.

--Muhammad Ali

I'd like to thank God, because SHE makes everything possible.

--Helen Reddy

The basic and essential human is the woman.

--Orson Wells

Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves.

--Betty Friedman

When you win, nothing hurts.

--Joe Namath

A spur of the moment is the essence of adventure.

--Anthony Armstrong-Jones

Man is not made for defeat.

--Ernest Hemingway

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

--Carl Sagan

American youth is looking for a reason to die.

--Jerry Rubin

Violence is as American as cherry pie.

--Stokley Carmichael

High school students are the largest oppressed minority in America.

--Mario Savio

If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag, wash it.

--Norman Thomas

If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together.

--Richard Nixon

A black person never leaves the ghetto.

--Sammy Davis Jr.

Nobody will save us from us but us.

--Reverend Jesse Jackson

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

We are a feelingless people. If we could really feel, the pain would be so great that we would stop all the suffering.

--Julian Beck

Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts--it's what you do with what you have left.

--Hubert Humphrey

You can kill a man but you can't kill an idea.

--Medgar Evers

Politics is the art of the possible.

--Lyndon B. Johnson

A man without a vote is a man without protection.

--Lyndon B. Johnson

You never want to give a man a present when he's feeling good.

--Lyndon B. Johnson

What convinces is conviction.

--Lyndon B. Johnson

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

--Lyndon B. Johnson

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

--Dwight D. Eisenhower

We did not choose to be the guardians at the gate. But there is no one else.

--Lyndon B. Johnson

War is not healthy for children and other living things.

--Antiwar Poster

All wars are popular for the first thirty days.

--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.

Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die.

--Salvador Dali

We need to devise a system within which peace will be more rewarding than war.

--Margaret Mead

Love means never having to say you're sorry.

--Erich Segal

Love never makes demands. Love is unconditional acceptance of him and his feelings.

--Marabel Morgan

Men are always ready to respect anything that bores them.

--Marilyn Monroe

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

--Hubert Humphrey

A successful marriage is not a gift; it is an achievement.

--Ann Landers

It takes two to destroy a marriage.

--Margaret Trudeau

No one ever filed for divorce on a full stomach.

--Mama Leone

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

--Mae West

Marriages are like diets. They can be ruined by having a little dish on the side.

--Earl Wilson

Divorce is defeat...It's an adult failure.

Illusion is the secret of beauty.

--George Masters

We should all just smell well and enjoy ourselves more.

--Cary Grant

The only thing people are interested in is people.

--Diana Vreeland

Pleasure is everything.

--Diana Vreeland

A good newspaper is a nation talking to itself.

All advertising is good news.

--Marshall McLuhan

The real news is bad news.

--Marshall McLuhan

Love is more important than what we can take...Please say with me three times--Love! Love! Love!

--Pele

Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing.

--Vince Lombardi (misquoted)

Winning isn't everything. It's how you react to losing.

--Vince Lombardi

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

--Heywood Hale Broun

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall.

--Vince Lombardi

I'm not a stunt man. I'm not a dare devil...I'm an explorer.

--Evel Knievel

Sports is the toy department of human life.

--Howard Cosell

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

--Dean Martin

Drinking is not a spectator sport.

--Jim Brosnan

Hurt is in your mind.

--Henry Lombardi to his son Vince

No on knows what to say in the loser's room.

--Muhammad Ali

Every time you win, you're reborn; when you lose, you die a little.

--George Allen

Becoming number one is easier than remaining number one.

--Bill Bradley

When you win, you're an old pro. When you lose, you're an old man.

--Charley Conerly

Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

--Charles O. Finley

All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.

--Joe Paterno

I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

--Reggie Jackson

Everybody's negotiable.

--Muhammad Ali

All I have is natural ability.

--Mickey Mantle.

Read my lips. No new taxes!

--George Bush

Date: 2014-12-29; view: 1021