Father was a man who respected time and never had enough of it. He used it like a miser, saving and spending it in his own ways. Degna Marconi
Daughter of Guglielmo Marconi (Physicist and inventor of a ‘wireless communications system’ (1874-1937)) in ‘My Father, Marconi’ on his work ethic.
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
No one ever won a war by dying for their country. They …
No one ever won a war by dying for their country. They won by making the other son-of-a-bitch die for his. General George.C. Patton
General G.C. Patton (1885-1945), one of two variations (Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley, 2000)
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower …
Death lies on her, like an untimely frost upon the sweetest flower of all the field. William Shakespeare
Rom & Jul, Act iv, Sc.4
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which …
We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the 15 others which we do possess. Mark Twain
It takes a lot of brains to enjoy satire, humor, and wit – …
It takes a lot of brains to enjoy satire, humor, and wit – but none to be offended by them. The Midnight Skulker, B.C.
B.C. the comic strip
The only person who listens to both sides of the argument is …
The only person who listens to both sides of the argument is the fellow in the next apartment. Anonymous
From The Fountainhead, August 25, 1999, page 12
We’re doing what’s right today. Steve Jobs …
We’re doing what’s right today.
Steve Jobs
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking …
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. Everitt Dirksen
Member of Congress
My God, how little my countrymen know what precious blessings they are …
My God, how little my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of and which no other people on earth enjoy. I confess I had no idea of it myself. While we shall see multiplied instances of Europeans going to live in America, I venture to say, no man now living will ever see an instance of an American removing to settle in Europe, and continuing there. Thomas Jefferson
in a letter from Europe, to James Monroe In 1785
The only person who listens to both sides of the argument is …
The only person who listens to both sides of the argument is the fellow in the next apartment. Anonymous
From The Fountainhead, August 25, 1999, page 12