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Letters Quotes

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I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.
Lewis Grizzard

I am often asked why I seem to have some enmity towards women, but the truth is I have wedded three of them.
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2.
If I had the power to influence Indian journals, I would have the following headlines printed in bold letters on the first page: Milk for the infants , Food for the adults and Education for all
Lala Lajpat Rai

If I had the authority to shape Indian newspapers, I would order prominent headlines on the front page reading: Infant Nourishment, Adult Rations and Universal Education.
3.
Oh no, honey, I can’t read little things like letters. I read big things like men.
Sojourner Truth

'Oh no, darling, I cannot decipher minuscule things like words. I interpret grandiose things like people.'
4.
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay.
Adrian Frutiger

'Helvetica is the standard, and Univers the formal attire. Helvetica is timeless.'
5.
Chieftains must understand that the spirit of the law is greater than its letter.
Attila the Hun

Leaders must recognize that the essence of the law is more important than its technicalities.
6.
Bestfriends has 11 letters, but so does Backstabber.
Wiz Khalifa

'Good companionship has 11 letters, but so does Betrayer.'
7.
For the sake of brevity, we will always represent this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e.
Leonhard Euler

We shall always denote this number 2.718281828459... by the letter e for succinctness.
8.
The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals
Plato

9.
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.
A. A. Milne

10.
The Bible is a letter God has sent to us; prayer is a letter we send to him.
Matthew Henry

11.
Another nice thing was that I would type out letters home for the admiral's stewards. They would then feed me the same food the admiral ate.
Jack Adams

12.
Fear is only a four letter word.
Jeff Hardy

13.
Later, I went down to the Washington field office and an onsite polygraph was administered. After reviewing the polygraph charts in private, the polygraph examiner told me that I had passed and that he believed I had nothing to do with the anthrax letters.
Steven Hatfill

14.
When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.
Sathya Sai Baba

15.
Dreams are like letters from God. Isn't it time you answered your mail?
Marie-Louise von Franz

16.
I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight.
Roy Cohn

17.
If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
Demetri Martin

18.
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.
Emily Dickinson

19.
If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!
Ronald Reagan

20.
Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
C. S. Lewis

21.
Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
Aristotle

22.
In old age we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.
Knut Hamsun

23.
I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.
Antjie Krog

24.
Paul commands: 'Therefore, brethren, stand fast and hold the Traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.' From this it is clear that they did not hand down everything by letter, but there is much also that was not written. Like that which was written, the unwritten too is worthy of belief. So let us regard the Tradition of the Church also as worthy of belief. Is it a Tradition? Seek no further.
Saint John Chrysostom

25.
A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.
Lawrence Durrell

26.
The more uninteresting the letter, the more useful it is to the typographer.
Piet Zwart

27.
I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.
John James Audubon

28.
If the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

29.
Do you tell me that the Bible is against our rights? Then I say that our claims do not rest upon a book written no one knows when, or by whom. Do you tell me what Paul or Peter says on the subject? Then again I reply that our claims do not rest on the opinions of any one, not even on those of Paul and Peter, . . . Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Ernestine Rose

30.
If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.
Claire Cook

31.
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts
Nick Bantock

32.
The one good thing about not seeing you is that I can write you letters.
Svetlana Alliluyeva

33.
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers.
Eudora Welty

34.
The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.
George P. Rowell

35.
You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.
Ada Leverson

36.
You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.
Michael Marshall Smith

37.
Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The question we ask over and over.
Marjorie Celona

38.
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical notation, the nature of its processes must consequently be arithmetical and numerical, rather than algebraical and analytical. This is an error. The engine can arrange and combine its numerical quantities exactly as if they were letters or any other general symbols; and in fact it might bring out its results in algebraical notation, were provisions made accordingly.
Ada Lovelace

39.
Never write a letter and never destroy one.
Cardinal Richelieu

40.
I didn't offer transparency. I provided one quarterly report in letter form. That was all you got. I basically demanded that if you're going to invest in my fund you need to accept my terms. The terms not being super highs, but just, I'm not going to cater to you.
Michael Burry

41.
There are now about as many different varieties of letters as there are different kinds of fools.
Eric Gill

42.
Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.
Fats Domino

43.
I love the rebelliousness of snail mail, and I love anything that can arrive with a postage stamp. There's something about that person's breath and hands on the letter.
Diane Lane

44.
Letters are things, not pictures of things.
Eric Gill

45.
truth is a letter from courage!
Zora Neale Hurston

46.
A 5 letter word for happiness: MONEY.
Mr. Krabs

47.
Just know what is happening in your mind - not happy or sad about it, not attached. If you suffer see it, know it, and be empty. It's like a letter - you have to open it before you can know what's in it.
Ajahn Chah

48.
My name will be written in fiery letters on the Champs Elysees.
Yves Saint Laurent

49.
Hope is the letter that never arrives delivered by the postman of my fear.
Edward Kowalczyk

50.
A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.
Peter De Vries