Jack > Jack's Quotes

“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.”
― Will Rogers

“The most peaceful thing in the world is plowing a field. Chances are you’ll do your best thinking that way. And that’s why I’ve always thought and said, farmers are the smartest people in the world, they don’t go for high hats and they can spot a phony a mile off.”
― Harry Truman

“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.”
― Benjamin Franklin Wade

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
― Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater

“The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him.”
― Cher

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain

“If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.”
― Dean Koontz

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”
― Ingrid Bergman

“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
― George Eliot

“And so it goes...”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.”
― Dave Barry

“In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“And now please note that I have raised my right hand. And that means that I'm not kidding, that whatever I say next I believe to be true. So here it goes: The most spiritually splendid American phenomenon of my lifetime wasn't our contribution to the defeat of the Nazis, in which I played such a large part, or Ronald Reagan's overthrow of Godless Communism, in Russia at least.

The most spiritually splendid American phenomenon of my lifetime is how African-American citizens have maintained their dignity and self-respect, despite their having been treated by white Americans, both in and out of government, and simply because of their skin color, as though they were contemptible and loathsome, and even diseased."

"If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.