Quotable Quotes
 

"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less."
   ◊ Lewis Carroll
 

"I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
   ◊ Robert McCloskey
 

"If people had been as mealy-mouthed in centuries past as they are today, Ivan the Terrible would have been called Ivan the Inappropriate."
   ◊ Thomas Sowell
 

"Im not here to try and inpress you on my writting skill's."
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"Don't be so humble — you're not that great."
   ◊ Golda Meir
 

"Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters."
   ◊ Margaret Halsey
 

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
   ◊ Margaret Thatcher
 

"We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know."
   ◊ W.H. Auden


“I don't know much about being a millionaire, but I'll bet I'd be a darling at it.”
   ◊ Dorothy Parker


"Some days I don't seem to have much energy. Perhaps worse yet, I don't particularly want much energy."
   ◊ Thomas Sowell