Being first lady is the hardest unpaid job in the world.
Pat Nixon

A woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

I’ve learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.
Martha Washington

Even though people may be well known, they hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth: birth, marriage and death.
Jackie Kennedy

And in my own life, in my own small way, I’ve tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That’s why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us – no matter what our age or background or walk of life – each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.
Michelle Obama

My mother’s love has always been a sustaining force for our family, and one of my greatest joys is seeing her integrity, her compassion, her intelligence reflected in my daughters.
Michelle Obama

I began wearing hats as a young lawyer because it helped me to establish my professional identity. Before that, whenever I was at a meeting, someone would ask me to get coffee.
Bella Abzug

The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes.
Bella Abzug

I’m for catching every Japanese in America, Alaska, and Hawai’i now and putting them in concentration camps.
Francis Biddle

The Constitution has not greatly bothered any wartime President.
Francis Biddle

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
William Jennings Bryan

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
William Jennings Bryan

Certainly the existence of these huge nuclear force was important for the ultimate confrontation, let’s say, over western Europe. You just can’t use them to deal with a situation like Afghanistan.
Lloyd Cutler

I think the President himself is a remarkably intelligent, decent, ethical man. I think he did very well, but I think the job builds up over expectations which all candidates contribute to including this President that simply cannot be fulfilled.
Lloyd Cutler

If that vital spark that we find in a grain of wheat can pass unchanged through countless deaths and resurrections, will the spirit of man be unable to pass from this body to another?
William Jennings Bryan

A positive attitude is not going to save you. What it’s going to do is, everyday, between now and the day you die, whether that’s a short time from now or a long time from now, that every day, you’re going to actually live.
Elizabeth Edwards

But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful.
Elizabeth Edwards

Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
Samuel Gompers

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. H.L. Mencken

There is precious little hope to be got out of whatever keeps us industrious, but there is a chance for us whenever we cease work and become stargazers. H.M. Tomlinson

The end of labor is to gain leisure. Aristotle

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend. Doug Larson

Labor Day is a glorious holiday because your child will be going back to school the next day. It would have been called Independence Day, but that name was already taken. Bill Dodds

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics. (Benjamin Disraeli)

When in doubt, tell the truth. (Mark Twain)

No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. (Abraham Lincoln)

A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. (Edgar J. Mohn)

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying. (Oscar Wilde)

Lying is done with words and also with silence. (Adrienne Rich)

Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others. ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him. (Benjamin Franklin)

Periods of wholesome laziness, after days of energetic effort, will wonderfully tone up the mind and body. (Grenville Kleiser)

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. (Jules Renard)

Laziness is the mother of efficiency. (Marian Propp)

Let us be lazy in everything, except in loving and drinking, except in being lazy.

My only hobby is laziness, which naturally rules out all others. (Granni Nazzano)

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness: there is also the success of others. (Jules Renard)