quotes about Yes Or No

“Do they think that I am such a damned fool as to think myself fit for President of the United States? No, sir; I know what I am fit for. I can command a body of men in a rough way, but I am not fit to be President.”

“If we are to preserve civilization, we must first remain civilized.”

“Death is turning out the lamp because the dawn has appeared.”

“It takes a wise man to discover a wise man.”

“In order to have middle-income, middle-paying jobs, the kinds of jobs that allow people to get ahead, you have to have higher level of training and skill acquisition and education than ever before.”

“I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.”

“I've been thinking a lot lately about taking chances, and how it's really just about overcoming your fears. Because the truth is, everytime you take a big risk in your life, no matter how it ends up, you're always glad you took it.”

“Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.”

Source : Hesiod, Callimachus, Theognis, James Davies, Sir Charles Abraham Elton (1856). “The Works of Hesiod, Callimachus, and Theognis”, p.194, London : H.G. Bohn

“And eat lots of mints, it fools the cops.”

“Disneyworld...is a historical reconstruction as sanitised as the Kremlin's, and a future vision as uncognisant of contemporary pointers as Peter Pan's. It is a magic carpet under which everything has been swept.”