Bugger Quotes

Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

My first day in Chicago,

September 4 1983,

I set foot in this city,

and just walking down the street,

it was like roots,

like the motherland.

I knew I belonged here.

I choose to live without

hope to protect myself

from disappointment.

It's very effective!

All the armies of Europe,

Asia and Africa combined,

with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted)

in their military chest;

with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force,

take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge,

in a trial of a thousand years.

When you have a dream,

you've got to grab it

and never let go.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored,

but that’s no reason not to give it.

Stand with anybody that stands right,

stand with him while he is right and part with him

when he goes wrong.

Upon the subject of education,

not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it,

I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we,

as a people, can be engaged in.

Sometimes it’s necessary to go a little crazy to stay sane.

It is the duty of society to

provide protection for the weak and helpless.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Few of us can stand prosperity.

Another man's, I mean.

Above anything else,

I hate to lose.

Laws made by common consent

must not be trampled on by individuals.

Learn from yesterday live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Look deep into nature,

and then you will understand everything better.

I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change.

I’m changing the things I cannot accept.

I was only trying to do what I thought was right,

according to my upbringing and my heart.

I die without seeing the dawn brighten over my native land.

You,

who have it to see,

welcome it—and forget not those who have fallen during the night.