#vice

Poetry was invented as an mnemonic device to enable people to remember their prayers. ↗

#enable #invented #people #poetry #prayers

The best advice he gave me was to carry on. It would have been difficult to set foot back inside a TV studio if I hadn't carried on - I don't know if I would have ever gone back in. ↗

— Cilla Black

#back #been #best #carried #carry

When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. ↗

— Hugo Black

#advice #advised #again #carefully #could

There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

#better #business #california #coast #congress

My father was in the civil service. I can remember standing in a bus shelter in the pouring rain, and that we were allowed candy floss at the end of the holiday if we had behaved. ↗

— Honor Blackman

#behaved #bus #candy #civil #civil service

Expanding eligibility of family planning services to low-income women will maximize cost-savings to both federal and state governments, reduce the disparities in access to family planning services for low-income women, and decrease the incidence of abortion in the U.S. ↗

— Rosa DeLauro

#access #both #decrease #disparities #expanding

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. ↗

— Paul Erdos

#device #into #mathematician #theorems #turning

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues. ↗

— Rene Descartes

#greatest #minds #vices #virtues #well

But as I always say to people I'm essentially a public service person. ↗

— Tony Blair

#essentially #i #i always #people #person

Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ↗