Top 50 Quotes About Postage
#1. If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false
Tony Benn
#2. Don't ever make the mistake most New Yorkers do, of underestimating Chicago. They think it's only a postage stamp on a very large envelope, and they're the envelope.
Jeffrey Archer
#3. I've read up to Lot #49, which is a valuable postage stamp.
Lemony Snicket
#4. I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beautiful. I'm fast. I'm so mean I make medicine sick. I can't possibly be beat.
Muhammad Ali
#5. I never needed Panavision and stereophonic sound to woo the world. I did it in black and white on a screen the size of a postage stamp. Honey, that's talent.
Mae West
#6. If you're stuck you could always double up with me at my place. It's the size of a postage stamp, but the roses are the size of poodles. So it sort of evens out. -Austin
Katherine Applegate
#7. The average person's life can be summed up on a postage stamp. he came. He lived. He died.
Marilyn L. Rice
#8. Smoking dope and hanging up Che's picture is no more a
commitment than drinking milk and collecting postage stamps.
Abbie Hoffman
#9. Consider the postage stamp: its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.
Josh Billings
#10. The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.
Napoleon Hill
#11. All those postage-stamp front yards we used to have were reminders that we like clear spaces to see predators coming.
Daniel H. Wilson
#12. If the big publishers are doing so well, why do they require writers to send return postage with their manuscripts?
Dan Poynter
#13. There ain't any news in being good. You might write the doings of all the convents of the world on the back of a postage stamp, and have room to spare.
Finley Peter Dunne
#14. Some, like Lorne, who ran the Three Ps - the shop for paper, printing, and postage - went on as they had before.
Anne Bishop
#15. I collect postage stamps. That's the only thing I can afford to collect! I hope in five years' time to say, "Yes, I specialize in Gustav Dore first editions."
Peter Webber
#16. The United States Postal Service has a problem. People aren't sending as much mail as they used to. That means less postage revenue and difficulty paying the bills.
Matthew Yglesias
#17. He picked the postage stamp over the wall with aplomb.
Tim Flowers
#18. Of all Americans who have appeared on the nation's postage stamps, Ayn Rand is probably the only one to have thought that the United States government has no business delivering mail.
Thomas Mallon
#19. Certainly, it is more reasonable to devote one's life to women than to postage stamps, old snuff-boxes, or even to paintings and statues.
Marcel Proust
#20. There's nothing sadder to me than associations held together by nothing but the glue of postage stamps. If you can't see or hear or touch a man, it's best to let him go.
John Steinbeck
#21. The American head of state grew up with a mother on food stamps. The British head of state grew up with a mother on postage stamps. Is that a contrast that fills you with pride?
Johann Hari
#22. I get a lot of fan mail from girls. It's interesting because it's not just the U.S. - you get things from people all over the world. They send these postage stamps and you're like, 'Where do you live?' It's crazy. I'll get letters from the troops, too.
Jenna Ushkowitz
#23. I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it.
William Faulkner
#24. With full responsibility for my words as a professional biologist, I do not hesitate to say that all existing and genuine knowledge about the way in which the physical characteristics of human communities are related to their cultural capabilities can be written on the back of a postage stamp.
Lancelot Hogben
#25. I want any excuse to come home. My dad is not a spring chicken any more. If anyone says, 'Go buy a postage stamp in London,' I'll go and do it.
Emily Mortimer
#26. Returning to his quarters, he opened the window (though it was only the size of a postage stamp),
Amor Towles
#27. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there
Bob Proctor
#28. I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
Henry David Thoreau
#29. The US head of state grew up on food stamps. The British head of state grew up on the postage stamps.
Johann Hari
#30. Each had its own two-digit reference; when he punched that, the postage-stamp-size rectangle would expand until it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he had finished, he would flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination.
Arthur C. Clarke
#31. Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
William Butler Yeats
#32. When I turned thirteen and took a typing class, with typical early teen enthusiasm and total lack of critical ability, I started sending my stuff to publishers once I'd babysat long enough to earn the postage.
Sherwood Smith
#33. As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.
William Faulkner
#34. Everything can't be a postage-stamp-sized project. Everything can't be a chamber piece. Musicals aren't even meant to be that, or identified with it ... It's none of it simple.
Harold Prince
#35. I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere.
Mark Twain
#36. He has a chance to make somebody move over on Mount Rushmore. He's working for his place on the coins and the postage stamps.
Henry Graff
#37. I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.
Diane Lane
#39. Why do they put pictures of criminals up in the Post Office? What are we supposed to do, write to them? Why don't they just put their pictures on the postage stamps so the postmen can look for them while they deliver the mail?
Steven Wright
#40. The pleasure of possession, whether we possess trinkets, or offspring - or possibly books, or prints, or chessmen, or postage stamps - lies in showing these things to friends who are experiencing no immediate urge to look at them.
Agnes Repplier
#41. The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation's leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won't happen so quickly in Russia.
Vladimir Sorokin
#42. I really don't know where the independent fits in anymore when twenty-five million dollar movies are considered straight-to-video fare. We're like penny postage stamps.
Kurt Voss
#43. I dream that my face appears on a postage stamp.
John Cheever
#44. Paint with whatever material you please - with pipes, postage stamps, postcards or playing cards, painted paper, or newspapers.
Guillaume Apollinaire
#45. Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.
Elizabeth Bishop
#46. I've discovered something interesting," she said. "If you ever want to avoid somebody, this city's as small as a postage stamp. But if you ever really want to run into somebody, if you really hope and pray, it's as big as an ocean.
John Burnham Schwartz
#47. Be like a postage stamp - stick to one thing until you get there.
Josh Billings
#48. Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking, and I was started off by the postage stamps of our area.
V.S. Naipaul
#49. The President of today is just the postage stamp of tomorrow.
Gracie Allen
#50. If it takes the entire army and navy to deliver a postal card in Chicago, that card will be delivered.
Grover Cleveland
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