Clay Pell famous quotes

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.
-- Clay Pell

#Men #Secret #Way

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.
-- Clay Pell

#People #Ballet #Coffins

My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me.
-- Clay Pell

#Voting #Bakers #Puff

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.

I'm not good at secrets, so don't tell me any.

All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.

And the founder of Christianity made no secret indeed of his estimation of the Jewish people. When He found it necessary, He drove those enemies of the human race out of the Temple of God.

I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit. "No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way.

To justify God's ways to man.

War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life.

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.