P. G. Wodehouse Quotes

I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan

P. G. Wodehouse

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• We have just been working hard to have people to come out to vote and to make sure people understand how important the election is.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
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  • Working Hard

• For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.

  

  Barry McGee
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• I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
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• Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.

  

  Wang Jianlin
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• The things that make me happy most are my family and working.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
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• I will get to the truth, if not in Ukrainian courts, then in international ones. I will fight to my last breath. They want to put me in prison but that won't help. My voice will be heard even louder from prison than now, and the whole world will hear me.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • World
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  • Help

• Solving a problem created by debt... by creating more debt is a fool's errand.

  

  Olivier Sarkozy
  • Problem
  • Fool
  • Debt

• Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'

  

  Dale Archer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I was lucky enough to see with my own eyes the recent stock-market crash, where they lost several million dollars, a rabble of dead money that went sliding off into the sea.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Money
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• When we train men for war, we lose some part of every man we train - even if we win the war. When we train men to be better nurturers, even men who fail the course will have won. And so will every child they ever meet. Training men to love is a nation’s best investment.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
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• It had already occurred to him that he would probably never be safe again in his life and he wondered if that was something that you got used to. And if you did?

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Life

• Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.

  

  Alan Turing
  • Science

• You can never really relax until you've signed that contract with your team.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Team
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• Believe it or not, the Navy requires plebes to actually be able to swim.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
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• When I do a Western, I often wonder what I would have really done in that situation.

  

  Kevin Costner
  • Done
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• A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.

  

  David Mamet
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• I've never wanted to be a person where somebody would be like, 'I like her; she's okay.' Love or hate is fine, because it sells tickets.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
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• Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

  

  Elmer Bernstein
  • Today

• A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.

  

  Pratibha Patil
  • Knowledge
  • Rain

• Part of being not only a liberal but also a human is to make your own decisions.

  

  Margrethe Vestager

• To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Race

• We take men's obligation to earn money, and when they do it well, we blame them for having power and being oppressors. And when they don't do it all, women just don't marry men who are reading 'I'm Okay, You're Okay' in the unemployment line.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• I have a friend who lives by a three-word philosophy: Seize the Moment. Just possibly, she may be the wisest woman on this planet.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Moments
  • Serious
  • Philosophy

• I'm all for rational enjoyment, and so forth, but I think a fellow makes himself conspicuous when he throws soft-boiled eggs at the electric fan

  

  P. G. Wodehouse