| "I wish I lived back in the Old west days, because I'd save up my money for about twenty years so I could buy a solid-gold pick. Then I'd go out west and start digging for gold. When someone came up and asked what I was doing, I'd say, 'Looking for gold, ya durn fool.' He'd say, 'Your pick is gold.' And I'd say, 'well, that was easy.' Good joke, huh" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow-red, yellow, brown, black and white-and we're all precious in God's sight." »Jesse Louis Jackson |
| "I have become a queer mixture of the East and the west, out of place everywhere, at home nowhere." »Jawaharlal Nehru |
| "My boat goes west, your's east. Heaven's a wind for both journeys." »Chao Li-hua |
| "Away back in that time-in 1492-there was a man by the name of Columbus came from across the great ocean, and he discovered the country for the white man. . . What did he find when he first arrived here Did he find a white man standing on the continent then . . . I stood here first, and Columbus first discovered me." »Chitto Harjo |
| "The little dictator who went to Moscow in his green fatigues to receive a bear hug did not forsake the doctrine of Lenin when he returned to the west and appeared in a two-piece suit. (On Daniel Ortega Saavedra)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "I hear it said that west Berlin is militarily untenable-and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men-brave men-will make it so." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun rose and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country" »Sitting Bull |
| "I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the white Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to 'order' than to justice who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice who constantly says 'I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action' who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for someone else's freedom who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a 'more convenient season.'" »Martin Luther King, Jr. |
| "It is not white hair that engenders wisdom." »Menander |
| "A white wall is the fool's paper." »French Proverb |
| "There will be no whitewash in the white House. (On Watergate investigation)" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "Lawyers and painters can soon change white to black." »Danish proverb |
| "The white House is the finest prison in the world." »Harry S Truman |
| "The snow doesn't give a soft white damn whom it touches." »e e cummings |
| "Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind." »Austin O'Malley |
| "It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice." »Deng Xiaoping |
| "You couldn't even prove the white House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt." »Ed Meese |
| "If you want to make beautiful music, you must play the black and the white notes together." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "I turned into the helicopter ... the red carpet was rolled up. ... The white House was behind us now." »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover, Tomorrow, just you wait and see." »Nat Burton |
| "I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white dude would come into my neighborhood after dark." »Dick Gregory |
| "When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray." »Dr. Laura Schlessinger |
| "When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came, an Indian said simply, Ours." »Father Andrew SDC |
| "Somewhere out in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the white House as the president' s spouse. I wish him well" »Barbara Bush |
| "Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow." »Lydia Maria Child |
| "If you see an animal and you can't tell if it's a skunk or a cat, here's a good saying to help 'Black-and-white, stinks all right. Tabby-colored, likes a fella.'" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "The white House is the leakiest place I've ever been in. (On special measures to ensure secrecy of plans to bomb Libya)" »Ronald Reagan |
| "Divine right went out with the American Revolution and doesn't belong to the white House aides. What meat do they eat that makes them grow so great" »Sam James Ervin, Jr. |
| "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the white House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
