Mannie Elephant Quotes

#1. I took acres of fertile ignorance up to that place. And they started to pour preconceptions all over it. Like forty tons of cement. No thanks. I got out before it hardened. I did a year, passed

William McIlvanney

#2. If you would make yourself agreeable wherever you go, listen to the grievances of others but never relate your own.

Josh Billings

#3. I couldn't tell the truth if my life depended on it.

Rabih Alameddine

#4. All passions that allow themselves to be savored and digested are only mediocre."
-from "Of sadness

Michel De Montaigne

#5. In civil and political affairs, American women take no interest or concern, except so far as they sympathize with their family and personal friends; but in all cases, in which they do feel a concern, their opinions and feelings have a consideration, equal or even superior, to that of the other sex.

Catharine Beecher

#6. The truth will abolish fear." When

Malala Yousafzai

#7. I spend most of my days pacing around, muttering that I have no ideas, feeling like I'm walking a plank.

Aaron Sorkin

#8. Study the rules so that you won't beat yourself by not knowing something.

Babe Didrikson Zaharias