John Nance Garner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • Practice is a talent. Perseverance is a talent. Hard work is a talent.

  • If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already.

  • I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me...

  • I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

  • No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

  • We must enhance the light, not fight the darkness.

  • Bismarck fought 'necessary' wars and killed thousands, the idealists of the twentieth century fight 'just' wars and kill millions.

  • I don't know how long a child will remain utterly static in front of the television, but my guess is that it could be well into their thirties.

  • Oh, Eeyore, you are wet!” said Piglet, feeling him. Eeyore shook himself, and asked somebody to explain to Piglet what happened when you had been inside a river for quite a long time.

  • Autumn can be glorious but menacing too - the long shadows, brisk winds, scurrying leaves, impending frost.

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