Charles Adams Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

11 Famous Quotes by Charles Adams
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“Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.”
Politics / government Quotes
“Custom said, 'Get up.' Society said, 'Get up.' Politics said, 'Get up.' The bus driver said, 'Get up.' But you gave her the power to stay seated. She heard your voice.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be radiating out into your room.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Buy a tin of food with no wrapper and be surprised at tea time.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Its like buying a bottle of milk and getting a bottle of orange........you just would not accept it would you????”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“The American experiment is the most tremendous and far reaching engine of social change which has ever either blessed or cursed mankind.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“This is your standard bulb. I can plug in the energy saving bulb that's equal to the incandescent bulb as you can see.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
“Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.”
Miscellaneous Quotes
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