“Every saint has a past: Every sinner has a future.”

“Everyone is entitled to own opinion but not own facts.” – Moynihan

President Calvin Coolidge was famous for his taciturnity. One morning of a Sunday he left Mrs. Coolidge at home in the White House and went across Lafayette Square to St. John’s Church for Sunday worship. When he returned, she asked how the service had been. He said, “Fine.” She asked what the sermon was about. He said, “Sin.” She said, “Well, what about it?” He said he was against it.

“Lives end but their stories don’t have to.”

“In our financial districts there’s been a decline in the assets we’ve bought with the assets we’ve borrowed.”

“No life is worth living that isn’t straight and true.” – Calia Saxon, ex-black slave

“If you can’t run with the big dogs, stay on the porch.”

“I have enough for the rest of my life so long as I’m hit tomorrow by a truck.”

“If you feed the bear, he’ll eat you last.”

“Every disaster is a change.”

“Fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run.” – Kipling

“I like paying taxes. With them I buy civilization.” – O.W. Holmes Jr.

You can wish someone “fair winds and following seas.”

“No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.” – Samuel Johnson

“The music that can deepest reach and cure all ills is cordial speech.” – R.W. Emerson

“If men will not all be ruled by the 10 Commandments, they shall be governed by the 10,000 commandments.” – Chesterton

“When you fight a monster take care that in the process you do not become one.” – Bourdin

“Never miss a chance to shut up.” – Will Rogers

“Stop the world, I want to get off.”

“One is more delightful for being told one is delightful, just as one is more angry for being told one is angry.”

“Sometimes something is nestled snuggly in the attics of our minds.”

“Absent minded professor who kissed the street car goodbye, jumped on his wife and went to town.”

“I think the world is run by ‘C’ students.”

“No one can look back on his school days and say with the truth that they were altogether unhappy.” – Orwell

There have been nearly 15,000 books written about Abraham Lincoln.

“Me against my brother, me and my brother against our cousin, me, my brother and my cousin against the stranger.” – Arab proverb

“It’s 98 percent of lawyers who give the rest a bad name.”

“No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms of government that have been tried from time to time.” – Churchill

Mother Teresa’s estate after she died: 80 cents.

“It is possible that blondes also prefer gentlemen.” – Mamie Van Doren

“The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows that the average man can see much better than he can think.” – Dorothy Parker

“To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak.” – Jean Massillon (1725)

“When you hear hoof beats, think horses not zebras.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear.” – C.S. Lewis

“A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – George Moore

“It takes a smart husband to have the last word and not use it.”

“No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.”

– Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947)

“Miracles are propitious accidents, the natural causes of which are too complicated to be really understood.” – George Santayana

“He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”

“A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.” – Montaigne

“Never go to bed mad, stay up and fight.” – Phyllis Diller

“Love is not blind, it sees more and not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.” – Rabbi Julius Gordon

“I kissed my first girl and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. I haven’t had time for tobacco since.” – Arturo Toscanini

TOMBSTONE: “This ain’t bad once you get used to it.”

Attorney Austin Cunningham has been the president of five business companies and in 1988 was named Outstanding Elder Citizen of the Year for South Carolina.

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