Quotes on "P"

PARENTHOOD

There are times when parenhood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
Peter De Vries

Some people seem compelled by unkind fate to parental servitude for life. There is no form of penal servitude worse than this.
Samuel Butler

PATIENCE

Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.
Ambrose Bierce

PATRIOTISM

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson

"My country, right or wrong" is like saying "My mother, drunk or sober."
G.K. Chesterton

PEOPLE

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
Oscar Wilde

When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst.
H. Allen Smith

The devil is a optimist if he thinks he can make people meaner.
Karl Kraus

People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
Anatole France

PESSIMIST

Pessimist: one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde

A pessimist thinks everybody is a nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
Don Marquis

POLITENESS

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.
Samuel Johnson

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.
Ambrose Bierce

POLITICIANS

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burgler.
H.L. Mencken

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles De Gualle

Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
David Broder

POLITICS

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Ambrose Bierce

Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Eugene McCarthy

You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.
James Thurber

PREJUDICE

I am free of all predjudices. I hate everyone equally.
W.C. Fields

I don't like principles. I prefer predjudices.
Oscar Wilde

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their predjudices.
William James

PRINCIPLES

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
Alfred Adler

I like persons better than principles and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.
Oscar Wilde

PUNNING

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
Fred Allen

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