Subject: Beliefs » Opinion (Page 6)

The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

(1918 – 2002) advice columnist

He would not blow his nose without moralizing on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

(1903 – 1974) English intellectual, literary critic & writer

He doesn’t have much of a reputation or so I’ve heard.

If you want to get rid of somebody, just tell him something for his own good.

(1868 – 1930) cartoonist, humorist & journalist

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

(1906 – 1972) pianist, composer, author, comedian & actor

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing.

(1905 –1998) American author

Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you’ve got a pretty neck.

(1915 – ) American film, television & stage actor

Public opinion is the worst of all opinions.

(1741 – 1794) French writer

It's great to be with Bill Buckley because you don't have to think; he takes a position and you automatically take the opposite and you know you are right.

(1908 – 2006) Canadian-American economist

An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics.

(1900 – 1965) diplomat & Democratic politician

Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.

(1957 – ) cartoonist (Dilbert)

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.

(1894 – 1961) author, cartoonist & humorist

Finally, a guy who says what people who aren’t thinking are thinking.

(1962 – ) American political satirist, writer, television host & comedian

He is a modest little man who has a good deal to be modest about.

(1874 – 1965) British prime minister, politician, statesman & orator

We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road; they get run over.

(1897 – 1960) Welsh labor leader & politician

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

(1872 – 1970) British philosopher, mathematician, historian & social critic

Sacred cows make the best hamburger.

Samuel Clemens (1835 – 1910) author & humorist

Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.

People have the persona that all Texans wear cowboy hats.