Notable Quotes for March
“The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.
The Theory of Relativity? That’s easy.”
— Albert Einstein
From a letter to Time Magazine
(February 22, 1963).
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger.
You don’t have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
— Nelson Mandela
“If you have a radio, the next (nine) months is a good time to have it (quit working).
All you will hear from now until the 4th of November will be: ‘We must get our government out of the hands of predatory wealth.’
‘The good people of this great country are burdened to death with taxes. Now what I intend to do is ...’ What he intends to do is try and get elected.
That’s all any of them intend to do. Another one that will hum over the old static every night will be: ‘This country has reached a crisis in its national existence.’”
— Will Rogers
Excerpt from Weekly Articles, 1924
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it.
— Mark Twain
May your glass be ever full.
May the roof over your head be always strong.
And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead.
— Traditional Irish Toast
March is a month without mercy for rabid basketball fans.
There is no such thing as a ‘gentleman gambler’ when the Big Dance rolls around. All sheep will be fleeced, all fools will be punished severely...
There are no Rules when the deal goes down in the final weeks of March. Even your good friends will turn into monsters.
— Hunter S. Thompson
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
— Albert Einstein
Everything is funny… as long as it happens to somebody else.
— Will Rogers
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more luck I have.
— Thomas Jefferson
Why do you Irish always answer a question with a question?’ asked President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
‘Do we now?’ came New York Mayor Al Smith’s reply
An irishman is never drunk as long as he can hold onto one blade of grass and not fall off the face of the earth.
— Irish Proverb