Quips& Quotes

“The characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding and a vulgar manner.”

– Aristophanes

“Donald Trump is telling his supporters the voter turnout will be manipulated by the Democrats on November 8. Then again, this is coming from the guy who said, ‘Make sure you get out and vote November 28.’” – US talk-show host James Corden

“Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.” – Laurence J Peter, author of The Peter Principle

“Hillary is not on drugs – she just likes the ‘When they go low, we go high’ line.” – US bumper sticker

“Mishaps are like knives that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.” – James Russell Lowell, editor and diplomat

“They pass over … statesmen and able men, and they take up a fourth-rate lecturer, who cannot speak good grammar.” –

New York Herald on Abraham Lincoln’s nomination for president

“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.” – Winston Churchill

“Everybody is a genius.

But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein