Pauline Bonaparte Quotes

#1. Martyrdom is often the result of excessive gullibility.

Barbara Mertz

#2. I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#3. Nixon was a crook, of course, but he was also a rabid football fan - and he knew the game, which still astounds me, but I have always had a soft spot for him because of it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#4. She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

Henry James

#5. When in Rome, live as the Romans do; when elsewhere, live as they live elsewhere.

Saint Ambrose

#6. But why in the world do we need money, if all we ever do is keep working?

Arkady Strugatsky

#7. I think we're scared of intimacy - all of us, a little bit.

Brit Marling

#8. Modern colonialism won its great victories not so much through its military and technological prowess as through its ability to create secular hierarchies incompatible with the traditional order.

Ashis Nandy

#9. Now listen. If I think he's awful we'll just talk about the weather and the crops for a few minutes and then we'll have an ominous pause and stare at him. That always makes a man feel a perfect fool and the moment a man feels a fool he gets up and goes.

W. Somerset Maugham

#10. Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.

D.E. Stevenson

#11. In order to be kind, one must do. There is no point in thinking good thoughts and not acting on them. There is no currency in wishing things were better but not rolling up one's sleeves and helping to change them.

Ingrid Newkirk

#12. Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.

Leslie Carroll

#13. Lula's borderline too much of a good thing in lots of ways. It isn't exactly that Lula is fat; it's more that she's too short for her weight and her clothes are too small for the volume of flesh she carries.

Janet Evanovich