"Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution? Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore."

-- Jay Leno

#Writing Quotes #Iraq Quotes #Giving Quotes

“With a stretch belt, anything can be a dress - a dinner napkin, a tablecloth, even a towel. Just wrap and snap, and away you go in an incredible outfit. Another plus is that the belt will pull all eyes to your lovely curves, and they even look good around a coat or a jacket.”
“I hate my body Hate what it remembers. Hate what it let him do.”

Source : Cheryl Rainfield (2013). “Stained”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I have a group of four or five friends that I consider my friends and best friends and people that I want to hold onto for the rest of my life.”
“However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.”

Source : George Washington (1989). “Maxims of George Washington: Political, Military, Social, Moral, and Religious”, Mount Vernon Ladies Assn of the
“Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should know something of the population of their saline empire, especially of those parts of it immediately in contact with their terrestrial domain, and the coasts of the Continent to which our United Kingdom appertains.”

Source : Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.3
“Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.”

Source : 1676 The Man of Mode or, Sir Fopling Flutter, act 1, sc.1.
“The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.”

Source : Quoted in People, 26 Dec. 1977. Although now associated with Tomlin, this saying appears anonymously in Robert Reisner, Graffiti (1971), in the form "Remember, even if you win the rat race - you're still a rat." Rosalie Maggio, in New Beacon Book of Quotations by Women, states that William Sloane Coffin said "Even if you win the rat-race, you're still a rat" as a chaplain at Williams College or Yale University in the 1950s or 1960s.
“An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.”

Source : 1924 Looking Forward And Others, 'The Hopeful Pessimist'.

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