Quotations

Here are some interesting or amusing or thought-provoking quotations:-

'There is time for work. And time for love.  That leaves no other time.' Coco Chanel

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.'  Abraham Lincoln

'Those are my principles.  If you don't like them, I have others.'  Groucho Marx

'There is no such thing as fun for all the family.'  Jerry Seinfeld

'I think the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.' Joan Crawford

'Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. ' - Thomas Jefferson (3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”  Thomas Jefferson

“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.”  Thomas Jefferson

“If once the people become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature, in spite of individual exceptions.”   Thomas Jefferson
 
“Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny”   Thomas Jefferson 

“I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.”  Thomas Jefferson

Jean Harlow was at a dinner party and continually addressed Margot Asquith (wife of British prime minister Herbert Asquith) as "Margot", pronouncing the "T". Margot finally had enough and said to her, "No, Jean, the 'T' is silent, like in 'Harlow'".

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