Showing posts with label Calvin. Show all posts
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Saturday, July 23, 2011

Calvin Trillin

As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Calvin Trillin

Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
Calvin Trillin

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
Calvin Trillin

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.
Calvin Trillin

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Calvin Trillin

The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
Calvin Trillin

The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Calvin Trillin

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Calvin Trillin


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Saturday, March 26, 2011

Calvin Coolidge

Showing quotations 1 to 10 of 10 total Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong. Calvin CoolidgeI have never been hurt by anything I didn't say. Calvin CoolidgeIn a republic the first rule for the guidance of the citizen is obedience of the law. Calvin CoolidgeNever go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you. Calvin CoolidgeNo man ever listened himself out of a job. Calvin Coolidge Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. Calvin Coolidge Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin CoolidgeThere is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time. Calvin Coolidge, in a telegram, 1919The chief business of the American people is business. Calvin Coolidge, Speech in Washington, Jan. 17, 1925 Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. Calvin Coolidge, speech, June 11, 1928

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