Golliwog Quotes

#1. It's like the day you realize dolls are dolls. I pick up my old self and I see it's silly. A toy I've played with too often. It's a little sad, like an old golliwog at the bottom of the cupboard. Innocent and used-up and proud and silly.

John Fowles

#2. A mediocre person tells. A good person explains. A superior person demonstrates. A great person inspires others to see for themselves.

Harvey MacKay

#3. You're her reason for everything

Jay McLean

#4. As a broad generalisation, the more people trust each other in a society, the more prosperous that society is, and trust growth seems to precede income growth.

Matt Ridley

#5. Prayer is a force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men lifted out of sickness by the power of prayer. It is the only power in the world that overcomes the laws of nature.

Alexis Carrel

#6. All is a riddle to the man who trails a shadow. For that man walks in borrowed light, therefore he stumbles on his shadow.

Mikhail Naimy

#7. People are like nuts. There are lots of different kinds and they're all nuts.

Johnny Moscato

#8. Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

H.L. Mencken

#9. The German passion for bureaucracy
for written and signal forms ... to move about, to work, to exist
is like a steel pin pinning each French individual to a sheet of paper, the way an entomologist pins each specimen insect ...

Janet Flanner