quotes on republic day

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable. ~Hunter S. Thompson



Gardens are a form of autobiography. ~Sydney Eddison, Horticulture magazine, August/September 1993



Oliver Wendell Holmes once attended a meeting in which he was the shortest man present. "Dr. Holmes," quipped a friend, "I should think you'd feel rather small among us big fellows." "I do," retorted Holmes, "I feel like a dime among a lot of pennies." ~Author Unknown



History will see advertising "as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that." ~Malcolm Muggeridge, quoted in Eric Clark, The Want Makers: Inside the World of Advertising, 1988



Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~William Safire Only in grammar can you be more than perfect. ~William Safire



The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. As you grow older, you'll see white men cheat black men every day of your life, but let me tell you something and don't you forget it - whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash. ~Harper Lee



I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse they did not take my life; third, because although they took my all, it was not much; and fourth because it was I who was robbed, and not I who robbed. ~Matthew Henry



If you surveyed a hundred typical middle-aged Americans, I bet you'd find that only two of them could tell you their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbillies. ~Dave Barry



Name the season's first hurricane Zelda and fool Mother Nature into calling it a year. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel. ~Author Unknown



All television is educational television. The question is: what is it teaching? ~Nicholas Johnson



So shines the setting sun on adverse skies, and paints a rainbow on the storm. ~Isaac Watts



It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is going on here? ~Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989



The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law



Amount of time it takes for a dog to "do its business" is directly proportional to outside temperature + suitability of owner's outerwear. ~Betsy Canas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com



When leaders act contrary to conscience, we must act contrary to leaders. ~Veterans Fast for Life



The past is never dead, it is not even past. ~William Faulkner



Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. And lo, no one was there. ~Author Unknown



Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there. ~Author Unknown Do not be afraid of tomorrow; for God is already there. ~Author Unknown



We should all be concerned about the future because we will have to spend the rest of our lives there. ~Charles F. Kettering

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