Poltroons Quotes

#1. Congress consists of one-third, more or less, scoundrels; two-thirds, more or less, idiots; and three-thirds, more or less, poltroons.

H.L. Mencken

#2. Poltroons, cowards, skulkers and dastards.

Eustache Deschamps

#3. There is something, like a feeling, that reminds me of happy days filled with exploration and imagination. Days where the rest of the world fell behind me and only left a friend.

Angeles Kossio

#4. Whose happiness is so firmly established that he has no quarrel from any side with his estate of life?

Boethius

#5. When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them ... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.

Azzedine Alaia

#6. I engage my subjects in conversation, patterned after psychiatric questioning, with the aim of discovering something about the reasoning underlying their right but especially their wrong answers.

Jean Piaget

#7. The entire party and country should hurl into the fire and break the neck of anyone who dared trample underfoot the sacred edict of the party on the defense of women's rights.

Enver Hoxha

#8. I'm a very pragmatic soul. I'm part of the business and I'm a bit of a cynic when it comes to being an over-believer in spiritual or in paranormal matters.

Jane Anderson

#9. Bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you

Anonymous

#10. The results of the irrevocable decisions in her life, the commitments she had leaped into without thought, with only the sure and perfect knowledge that it mattered not where her feet landed because her heart was certain.
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Erica Bauermeister

#11. Do all the good you can, by all means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all times you can,to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.

John Wesley

#12. Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn't work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.

Mitt Romney

#13. They [homeless people] are constructed ideologically to be oppressed to the level of losing their humanity. It is not by chance it is a design.

Bruno De Oliveira

#14. Someone once said the fundamental reason we get married is because have a universal human need for a witness.

Roger Ebert