Elwood P Dowd Quotes

#1. In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.
~Elwood P. Dowd

Mary Chase

#2. The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

Pierre De Coubertin

#3. Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches; and obedience, Bane of all genius, virtue, freedom, truth, Makes slaves of men, and of the human frame A mechanized automaton.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#4. Still deep I burrow, waiting for tomorrow. Closed off, I bear. The open elements don't care. Laid here in this nest, dormant now I rest. Aching to live and roam, though still burrowed in my tomb. When time brings my spring, maybe I'll rise like a king.
-Anonymous

Linda Kage

#5. No, he is not vicious, nor is he in the least demented. His mind is a wonder chamber, from which he can extract treasures that you and I would give years of our life to acquire.

Robert W. Chambers

#6. Something that he wants to do. And when I answer his peremptory scratch at the door and hold the door open for him to walk through, he stops in the middle and lights a cigarette, just to hold me up.

E.B. White