Able Quote by Gracie Allen Download Open image “Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground.” — Gracie Allen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Ears Feet Fence Politician Politics
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A politician is an animal who can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground — American Proverb Copy Share Image
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get politicians who dig their feet into the sand and aren't willing to listen to another voice. — Elizabeth Edwards Copy Share Image
“A politician’s word is like a thick tree branch, and the people are all hanging on it. Well, I’ve got noose for you, politicians… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
My philosophy is that politicians should be jumped on as often as possible. — David Levine Copy Share Image
Few politicians are good at taking the high ground and throwing themselves off it. — Peter Mandelson Copy Share Image
“I can’t stand politicians. A politician is someone who promises you a bridge, even when there’s no river.” — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out. — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
It's foolish to bet on a horse without talking to him first. I know it seems silly to ask a horse who's going to… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
Gracie: "Don't give up, Blanche. Women don't do that. Look at Betsy Ross, Martha Washington-they didn't give up. Look at Nina Jones." Blanche Morton:… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
The on-stage Gracie may look poised, but the real Gracie is shy, a little self-conscious, and, before every performance of my life, panicky. — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
“Never place a period in your life where God only meant to place a comma.” — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
This country needs room to grow and expand. In all my own newspapers I read frightful tales of the shameful atrocities being perpetrated on… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
A friend asked her doctor if a woman should have children after thirty-five. I said, "Thirty-five children is enough for any woman. — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
I often put boiling water in the freezer. Then whenever I need boiling water,I simply defrost it. — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
As a well-known great man would have said if he had thought of it, "Don't go around offending people just because it can be… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
The Senate is the only show in the world where the cash customers have to sit in the balcony. — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
A young boy shouldn't be given up for hopeless just because he's lazy, surly, and good for nothing. Don't be discouraged by those things… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still… — Nas Copy Share Image
I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
