Appraisement Quotes

#1. The young see what they wish to see. The old see what they do not wish.

Bette Lord

#2. I'm beginning to think that you should only be allowed to serve two terms, before madness sets in.

Chris Lowe

#3. As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.

Edward Abbey

#4. He despises what he sought; and he seeks that which he lately threw away.
[Lat., Quod petit spernit, repetit quod nuper omisit.]

Horace

#5. It is unfortunate we can't buy many business executives for what they are worth and sell them for what they think they are worth.

Malcolm Forbes

#6. Mum repeated the old adage that money can't buy you everything ... before adding that she prefers using credit cards instead.

Kirkland Ciccone

#7. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.

Robert Plant

#8. A kitten is, in the animal world, what a rosebud is in the garden.

Robert Sowthey

#9. If Dr. Karl Lueger had lived in Germany, he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.

Adolf Hitler

#10. A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Mahatma Gandhi

#11. In matters of literary and historical appraisement, one cannot operate with the methods of a laboratory or furnish the proof to be demanded in a court of law. The best is only the probable. Any who raise complaint have an easy remedy: to offer something better, something coherent and constructive.

Ronald Syme