Deome’s most recent Quotables

My eyes lead me to sin. Shall I rip them out right now, Lord? Or should I just pick and choose which commandments I should obey, like the rest of your followers?

Lady Astor: Mr. Churchill, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea!
Winston Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.

If I miss one day's practice, I notice it. If I miss two days, the critics notice it. If I miss three days, the audience notices it.

Pride and poverty walk together.

I'm only superficial on the surface.

I actually hate to argue, but my first reaction when someone contradicts me is to call them stupid; obviously, courtesy and reason dictate that I should demonstrate this first.

Conscience is often our most defining feature.

Politics is the art of deciding who gets left out.

I don't complain about the weather. I save my complaints for things I can influence.

Worrying that someone is illegally benefiting from your tax dollars is like living in constant fear that someone might have stolen the penny you left in the spare change tray at the gas station.

The problem with economists is that they have the reasoning skills of pop-psychologists and the charisma of mathematicians.

Giving Bush credit for killing Osama bin Laden is like giving Gutenberg credit for the Kindle.

Nothing useless is, or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.

Truly shape and fashion these;
Leave no yawning gaps between;
Think not, because no man sees,
Such things will remain unseen.

In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the Gods see everywhere.

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, "Verify your quotations."

I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all Parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

The first lesson that you must learn is that, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.