19th Century Slam Quotes

#1. Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.

John Cleese

#2. They say the farther away you are from the beach, the louder it sounds. That way it's always with you and you can always find your way back.

Kerry Kletter

#3. It is ingeniously named, for it looks just as a cross would look if it looked like something else.

Mark Twain

#4. If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Theodore Roosevelt

#5. How foolish it is for me to be completely honest with my wife about my shortcomings, but try to fool God!

Francis Chan

#6. One of the most meaningful things we can do as parents is teach our children the power of prayer, not just the routine of prayer.

Tad R. Callister

#7. You can't teach an old dog new tricks,

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#8. Even with my sunglasses on, my eyeballs were screaming in pain. Stupid beautiful sunrise in stupid Elf World.

Rick Riordan

#9. I wanted to end my life so bad and was in my car ready to go down that ramp into the water, and I did go part way, but I stopped. I went again and stopped. I then got out of the car and stood by the car a nervous wreck.

Susan Smith

#10. Each living art object, taken out of its native habitat so we can conveniently gaze at it, is like an animal in a zoo. Something about it has died in the removal.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#11. The Verbalist, 1894

Ammon Shea

#12. A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

Henry David Thoreau

#13. ...it is as it was meant to be...

Charles Kuralt