If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what ...
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the ...
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM I would rather hear the pleased laugh of a child over some feature of my exhibition than receive as ...
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM Every man
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM Never attempt to catch a whale with a minnow.
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing than by believing in too much.
P. T. (PHINEAS TAYLOR) BARNUM You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you ca...
PHINEAS T. BARNUM Every crowd has a silver lining.
PHINEAS TAYLOR BARNUM Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
PHINEAS TAYLOR BARNUM Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season,...
P. T. BARNUM To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as...
P. T. BARNUM Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
P. T. BARNUM In the United States, where we have more land than people, it is not at all difficult for persons in...
P. T. BARNUM There is scarcely anything that drags a person down like debt.
P. T. BARNUM Witchcraft is one of the most baseless, absurd, disgusting and silly of all the humbugs.
P. T. BARNUM Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lig...
P. T. BARNUM No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can u...
P. T. BARNUM Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.
P. T. BARNUM Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar ge...
P. T. BARNUM Clowns are the pegs on which the circus is hung.
P. T. BARNUM Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
P. T. BARNUM There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning a...
P. T. BARNUM True economy consists in always making the income exceed the out-go. Wear the old clothes a little l...
P. T. BARNUM He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
P. T. BARNUM Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!
P. T. BARNUM Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
P. T. BARNUM Every crowd has a silver lining.
P. T. BARNUM There's a sucker born every minute.
P. T. BARNUM Medicine is the means by which we poor feeble creatures try to keep from dying or aching.
P. T. BARNUM The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the bas...
P. T. BARNUM Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
P. T. BARNUM The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the expos...
P. T. BARNUM As a general thing, I have not 'duped the world' nor attempted to do so... I have generally ...
P. T. BARNUM A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its at...
P. T. BARNUM Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business. Large stores, gilt signs, fl...
P. T. BARNUM Every man should make his son or daughter learn some useful trade or profession, so that in these da...
P. T. BARNUM Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
PHINEAS FLETCHER Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.
PHINEAS FLETCHER When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises; Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:...
PHINEAS FLETCHER The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, ...
PHINEAS FLETCHER Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and princ...
PHINEAS FLETCHER Feast of David, Bishop of Menevia, Patron of Wales, c.601 Is a mediator between the eternal spiri...
P. T. FORSYTH Standards are not established by your proclamations they are established by your routines.
T JAY TAYLOR My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my che...
MEREDITH T. TAYLOR Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better.
T JAY TAYLOR There, amongst the angry water was the glow of green eyes, hundreds of them encompassed the entire a...
MEREDITH T. TAYLOR If it were easy it would not be any fun.
T JAY TAYLOR The greatest reward for your actions is not the respect you gain from others but the respect you gai...
T JAY TAYLOR When you are designing your plan, think not in terms of what you need to do, think in terms of what ...
T. JAY TAYLOR When you are designing your plan, think not in terms of what you need to do, think in term of what y...
T. JAY TAYLOR If you're looking for the easy challenge, you're not cut out for success.
T JAY TAYLOR It's never easy when you're constantly looking to become more.
T JAY TAYLOR They are from another world, another way of life that somehow has merged with our own. These worlds ...
MEREDITH T. TAYLOR My life had become a puzzle - its pieces scattered about like paper in the wind, with no one there t...
MEREDITH T. TAYLOR Without promotion something terrible happens... Nothing!
P.T. BARNUM Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product.
P.T. BARNUM Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.
P.T. BARNUM They're really, really neat projects because nobody wants to fund them and everybody is scared of th...
JIM BARNUM My timing was just really on with the growth and the desire for these things.
JIM BARNUM Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the ...
P.T. BARNUM There's a sucker born every minute
P.T. BARNUM Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.
P.T. BARNUM More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing in nothing, than by believing too much
P.T. BARNUM Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant
P.T. BARNUM If I shoot at the sun I may hit a star
P.T. BARNUM Every crowd has a silver lining.
P.T. BARNUM Young men starting in life should avoid running into debt. There is scarcely anything that drags a p...
P.T. BARNUM The foundation of success in life is good health: that is the substratum fortune; it is also the bas...
P.T. BARNUM The great ambition should be to excel all others engaged in the same occupation.
P.T. BARNUM The possession of a perfect knowledge of your business is an absolute necessity in order to insure s...
P.T. BARNUM Unless a man enters upon the vocation intended for him by nature, and best suited to his peculiar ge...
P.T. BARNUM MY THEORY: the trouble is in the mind, for the body is only the house for the mind to dwell in . . ....
PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY Every man is a part of each and our senses are attached to both. So when a man speaks of himself as ...
PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY The doctors take the bodily evidence as the disease. . . . disease is itself an impudent opinion. He...
PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY This I do partly mentally and partly by talking till I correct the wrong impressions and establish t...
PHINEAS PARKHURST QUIMBY Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either t...
A. J. P. TAYLOR Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to...
A. J. P. TAYLOR A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.
A. J. P. TAYLOR Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
A. J. P. TAYLOR Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered t...
A. J. P. TAYLOR He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and lik...
A. J. P. TAYLOR Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.
A. J. P. TAYLOR In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer - the wealth, prestige...
A. J. P. TAYLOR No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
A. J. P. TAYLOR No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
A. J. P. TAYLOR The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
A. J. P. TAYLOR Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
A. J. P. TAYLOR The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
A. J. P. TAYLOR In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer --the wealth, prestige...
A. J. P. TAYLOR There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more...
A. J. P. TAYLOR A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
A. J. P. TAYLOR The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war...
A. J. P. TAYLOR Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only...
A. J. P. TAYLOR Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themse...
A. J. P. TAYLOR A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
A. J. P. TAYLOR As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government a...
P. SATHASIVAM If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are a...
P. CHIDAMBARAM When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a commi...
P. CHIDAMBARAM The police force cannot be completely independent of the executive government.
P. CHIDAMBARAM We cannot afford to leave the poor behind.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I don't think we should label budgets even before the budget is presented.
P. CHIDAMBARAM A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Police can only act on intelligence.
P. CHIDAMBARAM In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
P. CHIDAMBARAM I think people respect governments that take decisions and act decisively.
P. CHIDAMBARAM Criticism of a policy is welcome. But in the garb of criticizing a policy, if you allege that the po...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Two successive commissioners in London police were fired by the mayor that came into office. That do...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is...
P. CHIDAMBARAM People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.
P. CHIDAMBARAM 'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst ...
P. CHIDAMBARAM I respect the view of a rating agency, but I do not make a budget for the rating agency. I make a bu...
P. CHIDAMBARAM It is possible that, post-Kyoto, the developed countries will recognise the requirements of the deve...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
P. CHIDAMBARAM All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
P. CHIDAMBARAM The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game ...
P. ORDESHOOK Today, to allege corruption seems to be the pastime of most people. All kinds of allegations are lev...
P. CHIDAMBARAM Carey's had though times as well, so between the two of us, it's perfect
P!NK My mum and I have an incredible friendship now after a mixture of pain, honesty, unconditional love ...
P!NK I can turn heartbreak into songs that help other people
P!NK Independence is a very subjective assessment.
P. CHIDAMBARAM There are checks and balances and broad separation of powers under the Constitution. Each organ of t...
P. SATHASIVAM Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'caus...
MASTER P The true source of cheerfulness is benevolence.
P. GODWIN Statistics are like lampposts: they are good to lean on, but they don't shed much light.
STORM P When your looking for the love you thought you had for someone and it starts to become too difficult...
JASHON P Love is about giving, about caring for the other person's welfare. Love is treating someone, in the ...
A. P. One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived
P. BOURGET ...music, music, records, records, noise to cover silence.
A. P. I feel pretty sure I know why the dinosaurs went extinct. They were waiting for Sam to pick out a ce...
P. ANASTASIA Cry in love, But never cry after breakup, It will cry your life.
PRASHANT P If I can go through what I've been through and do a television show with my son and then be a bo...
MASTER P So what! I'm still a rockstar, I got my rock moves, and I don't need you!
P!NK Nothing awakens the conscience like a lot of money.
P. SAINATH Denying the poor access to knowledge goes back a long way. The ancient Smriti political and legal sy...
P. SAINATH Too often, poverty and deprivation get covered as events. That is, when some disaster strikes, when ...
P. SAINATH I'm a fan of Jay-Z, I'mma always be a fan of Jay-Z.
T-PAIN Once people tell me I can't do stuff, I'm going to go and make it happen.
T-PAIN Most geniuses are weird.
T-PAIN I've got a song on every album, two songs as a matter of fact on every album without Auto-Tune, ...
T-PAIN As long as someone wants to hear my music, I don't care if it's a ringtone or the album or w...
T-PAIN When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big r...
T-PAIN I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go giv...
T-PAIN I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
T-PAIN I just keep my cars to myself.
T-PAIN I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same ti...
T-PAIN Anytime people read my tweets, they hear it in Auto-Tune.
T-PAIN I don't know if a song is going to be a hit or it's going to flop. I never know. I just do t...
T-PAIN The way that people show me love on Twitter? I don't know man. It's amazing.
T-PAIN My dad always told me that anyone's voice is just another instrument added to the music.
T-PAIN I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
T-PAIN I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
T-PAIN I've got to be sensible sometimes.
T-PAIN I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel.
MR. T A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they're scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is...
ICE T If I do a song where I'm angry, when it's time to perform it live I'm not mad, I'm h...
ICE T If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.
ICE T The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
ICE T My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot...
ICE T Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too ma...
ICE T If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
ICE T You can't come out on a record dissing the system and be on a label that's connected to the ...
ICE T An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say...
ICE T AIDS is such a scary thing and it's also the kind of thing that you think won't happen to yo...
ICE T Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to fi...
ICE T Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.
ICE T A good emcee will rhyme a lot of different ways. Don't limit yourself.
ICE T I think singing and acting go hand in hand. Take an R&B singer: one song says, 'I love you,&...
ICE T My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I unders...
ICE T I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be consider...
ICE T I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the ...
ICE T WWE asked me to be in the Hall of Fame, and I turned it down. You know why? They put Pete Rose in th...
MR. T I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the...
T-PAIN They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. Th...
T-PAIN I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am.
T-PAIN There's not much money in Tallahassee. Not many people can leave Tallahassee because they don...
T-PAIN There's a lot of stuff you've gotta know about Auto-Tune before you can start using it, beca...
T-PAIN I write my music.
T-PAIN People that watch Adult Swim don't watch the Oscars.
T-PAIN I'm pretty much in love with 'Adult Swim.'
T-PAIN I make sure I sing a cappella to let people know I can sing.
T-PAIN Keep in mind, you can use Auto-Tune and you can know how to work it perfectly, but you still have to...
T-PAIN I do YouTube my cars a lot.
T-PAIN My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, s...
T-PAIN I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.
T-PAIN My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to s...
T-PAIN Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
T-PAIN I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was...
T-PAIN We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
T-PAIN People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid.
T-PAIN You can't hate Britney Spears because, you know what, no matter what Britney Spears been doing, ...
T-PAIN Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that befo...
T-PAIN Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who p...
T-PAIN 'Nappy' is a state of mind, not an appearance.
T-PAIN To be a bodyguard is to be a kamikaze pilot. Dedicated.
MR. T The pain and hurt which i feel, go as deep as it is real; to be around and yet unseen, takes the ...
JAY T Passion makes the world go round. Love just makes it a safer place.
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