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"support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man." »Nikita Khrushchev
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"There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you." »Millicent Carey McIntosh
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"It was a false maxim of Domitian that he who would gain the people of Rome must promise all things and perform nothing. For when a man is known to be false in his word, instead of a column, which he might be by keeping it, for others to rest upon, he becomes a reed, which no man will vouchsafe to lean upon. Like a floating island, when we come next day to seek it, it is carried from the place we left it in, and, instead of earth to build upon, we find nothing but inconstant and deceiving waves." »Feltham
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"Some of my friends support the measure, and some of my friends oppose it. I support my friends." »Everett Dirksen, Answering a question about a controversial senate bill. Quoted on a political talk show on WBEZ FM in Chicago.
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"It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after." »William Shakespeare
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"People don't have to like or support you, so you always have to say thank you." »Ruben Studdard
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"Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues." »John Locke
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"Be good to people in your way up, so if you ever fall you will need their support on your way down." »The Omani Shed
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"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support." »John Buchan
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"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts -- for support rather than for illumination." »Andrew Lang
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"Statistics are like a drunk with a lampost: used more for support than illumination." »Sir Winston Churchill
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"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence." »Frank Zappa
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"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Programming is like sex one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." »Michael Sinz
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"We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more." »Madame Swetchine
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"I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of toleration." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." »Thomas Jefferson
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"Men want the same thing from women that they want from their underwear... a little support, comfort, and freedom." »Jerry Seinfeld
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"It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this." »Bertrand Russell
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"The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it." »John Updike
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"Men want the same thing from women and their underwear: support, comfort, and freedom." »Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld
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"Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions." »Bias
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"If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating." »Leigh Hunt
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"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those" »Gilbert Highet
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"History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance ... was a neat idea." »Oliver L. North
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"They came out in the millions to show their dogged support for the woman the dictatorship claimed it had defeated in the election." »Corazn Cojuangco Aquino
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"support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed." »Whitney Moore Young
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"Tonight-to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans-I ask for your support. (On his Vietnam War policy)" »Richard Milhous Nixon
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