#bet

I have the greatest sympathy with the growth of the socialist party. I think they understand the evils that surround us and hammer them into people's minds better than we Liberals. ↗

— Charles Trevelyan

#evils #greatest #growth #hammer #i

Machiavelli taught me it was better to be feared than loved. Because if you are loved they sense you might be weak. I am a man of the people and help them but it is important to do so through strength. ↗

— Don King

#because #better #feared #help #i

Television should be kept in its proper place - beside us, before us, but never between us and the larger life. ↗

— Robert Fraser

#beside #between #kept #larger #life

I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters. ↗

— Russell B. Long

#earl #i #left #really #retire

College is a place to keep warm between high school and an early marriage. ↗

— George Gobel

#college #early #high #high school #keep

A fairly bright boy is far more intelligent and far better company than the average adult. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#adult #average #better #boy #bright

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#alphabet #character #form #looks #may

A friend is always good to have, but a lover's kiss is better than angels raining down on me. ↗

— Dave Matthews

#angels #better #down #friend #good

Thatcher once said that if she were a visitor from Mars required to create a constitutional system, "I would set up ... a hereditary monarchy, wonderfully trained, in duty and in leadership which understands example, which is always there, which is above politics, for which the whole nation has an affection and which is a symbol of patriotism. ↗

— Sally Bedell Smith

#margaret-thatcher #monarchy #queen-elizabeth-ii #the-queen #leadership

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent. ↗

— Tug McGraw

#between #ears #elbow #i #inches