Bill Cobbs Quotes

#1. A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax ... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. one should not be deterred from improving his possessions for fear lest they be taken away from him or another from opening up trade for fear of taxes;

Niccolo Machiavelli

#4. Ossie Davis was a man with great integrity, great honor and someone who I feel has done us all a great service just by being on the Earth.

Bill Cobbs

#5. I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull that off. I liked entertaining, but I was always drawn to some kind of technical work - some kind of honest labor.

Bill Cobbs

#6. If our inward griefs were written on our brows, how many who are envied now would be pitied. It would seem that they had their deadliest foe in their own breast, and their whole happiness would be reduced to mere seeming.

Pietro Metastasio

#7. Grow spiritually and help others to do so. It is the meaning of life.

Leo Tolstoy