Shemp Howard Quotes

#1. A good lawyer never asks a witness a question she doesn't know the answer to.' 'But, Margaret, I'm not trying to be a good lawyer. I'm trying to be a good friend.

E.L. Konigsburg

#2. With politicians, artful evasion is always preferable to the outright lie.

Molly Ivins

#3. It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

Anne Bronte

#4. When I was a kid, I was one of those really obnoxious 'oooh oooh' girls, with my hand up in the air constantly. I've learned over the years that that's not so attractive, so I've censored that.

Claire Danes

#5. Many are so used to laurels and presume that they are real winners.

Dejan Stojanovic

#6. You don't want to bite your nose off to spite your face

Paul Merson

#7. Rome wasn't built in a day, and neit'er was Syracuse.

Shemp Howard

#8. The process by which the inanimate becomes animate seems to the audience to be a real miracle.

Sergei Obraztsov

#9. Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

Theodore Martin

#10. The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.

Henri Nouwen

#11. There's a thousand reasons why I shouldn't drink ... but I can't think of one right now.

Shemp Howard

#12. The short hair fits my personality more. I think maybe, with long hair, it was a role - I was playing dress-up a bit.

Natalie Maines

#13. We have time. Fear tangled into her clothes, cinched the shirt, spiraled into the veins.

E.J. Koh

#14. A farmer is dependent on too many things outside his control; it makes for modesty.

Bharati Mukherjee

#15. Chuckled, referring to the time Markel had used up sixty percent of the system's resources to simulate a series of space battles in real time for one of his war games. Markel flushed.

Anne McCaffrey

#16. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Mark Twain