Claude Pepper Quotes

#1. A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him, 'At my age, I don't even buy green bananas.'

Claude Pepper

#2. As incredible as it sounds, an unhappy man does not realize that happiness is better than unhappiness. Knowing only his own concealed anguish, he worships it, which is the same as self-worship.

Vernon Howard

#3. From his angle, the curtain seems to form itself into a shrouded, wavering figure, indescribably terrifying in its very indistinctness. Something waiting, hovering on the threshold of the visible world. Some half-embodied fear gradually assuming a hideous outer form.

Christopher Isherwood

#4. Life is like riding a bicycle: you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.

Claude Pepper

#5. A man blessed with a good mamma and a good wife has no right to complain about anything else.

Claude Pepper

#6. People naturally believe things they see. Nobody argues with the irrefutable postings on YouTube.

Andrew Smith

#7. I' tired of old people being labeled as worthless,useless,toothless and sexless

Claude Pepper

#8. Being temporarily broke sharpens the mirror's reflection.

Garry Fitchett

#9. FBI laboratory scientists said Sunday they have determined that the anthrax mailed to Senate offices last fall was fresh. They say it's only two years old. If the stuff is two years old and it's still fresh, it's not anthrax, it's Velveeta.

Argus Hamilton

#10. Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism.

Claude Pepper

#11. If more politicians in this country were thinking about the next generation instead of the next election, it might be better for the United States and the world.

Claude Pepper

#12. The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they've been appointed and thinking they've been anointed.

Claude Pepper

#13. From this process has emerged a parallel process of translating traditional working and living values into a new political and economic power - a power increasingly based upon the strength of money and those material things money can purchase.

Alex Campbell

#14. One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.

Claude Pepper