Sam Rayburn Quotes

#1. Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: It would kill him if he relaxed.

Robert A. Caro

#2. The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand.

Robert A. Caro

#3. A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

Sam Rayburn

#4. I want to build a machine that can drill wells for water. With this problem of water in many places in Africa, we need to find a solution for how you can dig wells so you can be pumping water from deeper places.

William Kamkwamba

#5. No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.

Sam Rayburn

#6. Don't ever talk until you know what you are talking about.

Sam Rayburn

#7. You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said.

Sam Rayburn

#8. The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart.

Sam Rayburn

#9. There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't.

Sam Rayburn

#10. Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here.

Sam Rayburn

#11. The person who will give you unexplained happiness, will also be the reason for your unexplained sadness.

Zayn Malik

#12. I want to do a romantic comedy. Like a 'When Harry Met Sally' romantic comedy ... A really sweet, show-my-vulnerability kind of role.

Zoe McLellan

#13. Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If you want to get along, go along.

Sam Rayburn

#14. Our peaceful borders and our peaceful history are important symbols, to be sure. What they symbolize, however, is the spirit of respect and restraint which allow us to cooperate, despite our differences, in way which help us both.

Richard M. Nixon

#15. If you want to get along, go along.

Sam Rayburn

#16. If at first you don't succeed, C4

Jamie Hyneman

#17. Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart.

Sam Rayburn

#18. I like power and I like to use it.

Sam Rayburn

#19. They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.

Sam Rayburn

#20. Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does.

Sam Rayburn

#21. Any jackass can kick down a barn. It takes a carpenter to build on.

Sam Rayburn

#22. Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you.

Sam Rayburn

#23. Within Siddhartha there slowly grew and ripened the knowledge of what wisdom really was and the goal of his long seeking. It was nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

Hermann Hesse

#24. Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws.

Sam Rayburn

#25. She'd been in a hermetically sealed bubble. A " couple bubble" that made the rest of the male species invisible.

Alexandra Potter

#26. Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time.

Sam Rayburn

#27. When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'

Sam Rayburn

#28. There is no beauty without order.

Pearl S. Buck

#29. Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions.

Sam Rayburn

#30. Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.

Sam Rayburn

#31. If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

Sam Rayburn

#32. There's no education in the second kick of a mule

Sam Rayburn

#33. A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.

Sam Rayburn

#34. You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.

Sam Rayburn