sad quotes about him

He struggles to exude authority. He furrows his brow, trying to look more sagacious, but he ends up looking as if he has indigestion. Appearing confused at his own speech, he seems like a first-grade actor in a production of James and the Giant Peach. Are his blinks Morse code for "Oh, man, don't let that teleprompter break?" ~Maureen Dowd, about George W. Bush



A good pun is its own reword. ~Author Unknown



What a commentary on civilization, when being alone is being suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it - like a secret vice. ~Anne Morrow Lindbergh



I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. ~John Steinbeck



And the crazy part of it was even if you were clever, even if you spent your adolescence reading John Donne and Shaw, even if you studied history or zoology or physics and hoped to spend your life pursuing some difficult and challenging career, you still had a mind full of all the soupy longings that every high-school girl was awash in... underneath it, all you longed to be was annihilated by love, to be swept off your feet, to be filled up by a giant prick spouting sperm, soapsuds, silk and satins and, of course, money. ~Erica Jong



Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends. ~George Bernard Shaw



The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven. ~David Lloyd George



The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul. ~John Quincy Adams



The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. ~Charles R. Brown



I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. ~Josh Billings



Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~Samuel Johnson



The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals. ~Leo Tolstoy



No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. ~Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849



Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes. ~Oscar Wilde, Lady Windemere's Fan, 1896



Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers. ~Lewis Mumford, The Brown Decades



If cheerleaders are so easy, why aren't you with one? ~Author Unknown



Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. ~William Hazlitt



The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention. ~Oscar Wilde



To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. ~Henry David Thoreau