Quotes - Tim Garrity (garrityt) (Boston, MA) Showing 1-13 of 13

#1

“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
― Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

tags: misattributed-to-abraham-lincoln, misattributed-to-mark-twain, remaining-silent, wisdom

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#2

“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: hell, perseverance

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#3

“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.”
― Winston S. Churchill

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#4

“A lady came up to me one day and said 'Sir! You are drunk', to which I replied 'I am drunk today madam, and tomorrow I shall be sober but you will still be ugly.”
― Winston Churchill

tags: apocryphal, attributed-no-source, classic-insult, drinking, drunkenness, retort

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#5

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
― Winston S. Churchill

tags: democracy, elite, elitism, elitist, meritocracy, peasant, voter, voting

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#6

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”
― Walter Langer

tags: lies, paraphrased

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#7

“One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.”
― George W. Bush

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#8

“They misunderestimated me.”
― George W. Bush

tags: dumb, gibberish

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#9

“There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again.”
― George W. Bush

tags: bushism, dumb, foolishness, fools

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#10

“My job is a decision-making job, and as a result, I make a lot of decisions.”
― George W. Bush

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#11

“I don't care what the polls say. I don't. I'm doing what I think what's wrong.”
― George W. Bush

tags: dumb

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#12