#their

Old maids sweeten their tea with scandal. ↗

— Josh Billings

#old #scandal #sweeten #tea #their

Let tyrants shake their iron rod. ↗

— William Billings

#rod #shake #their #tyrants

There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age. ↗

— John Agyekum Kufuor

#been #before #chance #children #country

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#called #cared #children #day #did

Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#hero #just #look #own #story

A lot of people that embark on spiritual endeavors tended to, especially in the '60s and '70s, they tended to give up what they had before and cut themselves off from their lives, previous life as it were. But, I don't think that one should do that. ↗

— Dave Davies

#cut #embark #endeavors #especially #give

Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of these books are aimed at gullible folk, and they usually make much more money for their authors than they do for the investing public. ↗

— Gavyn Davies

#authors #book #books #folk #gullible

As it happens, I have personally been something of an enthusiast for the London Olympic games, mainly on the grounds a) that a bit of wasteland will be made nice and b) that it tends to make everybody happy that their country should be the centre of world attention for a couple of weeks in their life. ↗

— Evan Davis

#been #bit #centre #country #couple

The message from the United States and Europe is that governments must live within their means. ↗

— Julie Bishop

#governments #live #means #message #must

No one making less than $250,000 under Barack Obama's plan will see one single penny of their tax raised, whether it's their capital gains tax, their income tax, investment tax, any tax. ↗

— Joe Biden

#barack #capital #capital gains #gains #income