Fewer Quote by Peter De Vries Download Open image “A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.” — Peter De Vries ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fewer Inspirational Language Man Verbose Men Politician Politician Man Politics Verbose Verbose Fewer
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. — Harry S Truman Copy Share Image
No man can be a politician, except he be first a historian or a traveller; for except he can see what must be, or… — James Harrington Copy Share Image
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. — David Lloyd George Copy Share Image
A politician is a man who understands government, and it takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
[A politician is] a person skilled in the art of compromise. Usually an elected official who has compromised to get nominated, compromised to get… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. — George Will Copy Share Image
The politician is . . . trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have… — Edward R. Murrow Copy Share Image
What is inherently wrong with the word 'politician' if the fellow has devoted his life to holding public office and trying to do something… — Richard J. Daley Copy Share Image
Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them,… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty and women their happiness — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
“Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues.… — Peter De Vries Copy Share Image
It was a conscious decision on my part to take up fewer films. And if you're not seen that often on screen, nobody calls… — Johnny Lever Copy Share Image
It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I would like to see fewer actors modeling, or if they're going to model to the extent that they are modeling, then I think… — Stephanie Seymour Copy Share Image
When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer… — Mike Honda Copy Share Image
In general, we should be able to agree that those who have greater opportunities and face fewer impediments have a greater responsibility to do… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to… — David Tang Copy Share Image
You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
I've been vegan for 15 years, and it turns out it makes a very big impact on the environment to eat fewer animal products,… — Emily Deschanel Copy Share Image
If Inigo Montoya were around now, he wouldn't need to storm the castle to bring his father's murderer to justice; the police would do… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Recipients of transfers set a bad example for others, including their children, other relatives, and friends, who see that one can receive goods, services,… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image