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Sam Rayburn Quotes & Sayings

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No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut. — Sam Rayburn

There are no degrees in honorableness. You either are or you aren't. — Sam Rayburn

Poverty only tries men's souls. It is loneliness that breaks the heart. — Sam Rayburn

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there. — George Bernard Shaw

At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting. — Omar Dorsey

Enthusiasm is the DNA of making things happen. — Danielle LaPorte

Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without "taste," at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Life's a crazy trip. Make it worth the ride. — Sheila Renee Parker

Let the other fellow get the headlines. I'll take the laws. — Sam Rayburn

Poetry remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. — Jorge Luis Borges

You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too. — Sam Rayburn

When did having a life become an event you had to schedule? — Karen Marie Moning

When people don't tell you the truth what they really are saying is they don't value you or their relationship with you enough to be honest. — Shannon L. Alder

I like power and I like to use it. — Sam Rayburn

Readiness for opportunity makes for success. Opportunity often comes by accident; readiness never does. — Sam Rayburn

The real actor has a direct line to the collective heart. — Sam Rayburn

Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one. — Sam Rayburn

Son, always tell the truth. Then you'll never have to remember what you said the last time. — Sam Rayburn

Any man who will cheat for you will cheat against you. — Sam Rayburn

Don't ever talk until you know what you are talking about. — Sam Rayburn

If you want to get along, go along. — Sam Rayburn

I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, often for a very long time, before writing them down. — Ludwig Van Beethoven

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is. — Sam Rayburn

You'll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you don't have to remember what you have said, and you never forget what you have said. — Sam Rayburn

Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If you want to get along, go along. — Sam Rayburn

The author describes Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn as seldom at ease without a gavel in his hand. — Robert A. Caro

A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice. — Sam Rayburn

Any jackass can kick down a barn. It takes a carpenter to build on. — Sam Rayburn

They may be just as intelligent as you say. But I'd feel a helluva lot better if just one of them had ever run for sheriff. — Sam Rayburn

What would have happened to me if I would not have believed I would see the goodness of God? — Joel Osteen

Gun registration is not enough. — Janet Reno

A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one. — Sam Rayburn

There's no education in the second kick of a mule — Sam Rayburn

It's harder to do work that matters than work that doesn't! — Mani S. Sivasubramanian

Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here. — Sam Rayburn

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: It would kill him if he relaxed. — Robert A. Caro

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the nurse's office? I know it'd be a tight fit, but it would be sort of perfect. — Robyn Schneider

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.' — Sam Rayburn

Too many critics mistake the deliberations of the Congress for its decisions. — Sam Rayburn

God save us all from good-looking men. — James S.A. Corey