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We wanted to be certain they didn't have a bigger deficit, and Kennedy agreed with me. — Wilbur Mills

Litigation only makes lawyers fat. — Wilbur Smith

I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background. — Wilbur Smith

No profit was too small to despise; no loss was too small to abhor. — Wilbur Smith

The man who drinks Zambezi waters must always return to drink again. — Wilbur Smith

Sometimes you are garrulous, Taita.' Pharaoh was less than captivated by my lecture on the palace architecture. 'Get on — Wilbur Smith

There are people out there with an eye on my hard-earned cash who think that I am a pushover. I am not! — Wilbur Smith

They say if you drink Zambezi water with your mother's milk, you are always a slave of Africa, and I am. — Wilbur Smith

Silence as they crept in towards the island. Hal navigated by the compass, — Wilbur Smith

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes. — Wilbur Smith

Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday. — Richard Wilbur

What I wanted to do was see if we couldn't balance the budget. — Wilbur Mills

The tranquilizers he had been given had worn off, leaving him with a drug hangover and a bitter grudge against the entire world. — Wilbur Smith

Teach me, like you, to drink creation whole/ And casting out myself, become a soul. — Richard Wilbur

Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?" — Red Buttons

I'm a feminist. The women in my books in recent years have been powerful characters and I love to see a woman with a cute bottom walking past. — Wilbur Smith

War is the game played by old men with the lives of the young — Wilbur Smith

Always be suspicious of easy work, Dr. Wilbur Larch once said to Homer Wells. — John Irving

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness. — Ray Lyman Wilbur

We are all mere insects caught in the web that the gods spin for us. — Wilbur Smith

The fact that I had been on the point of making a similar heroic gesture was quite ignored, and this only increased my irritation. — Wilbur Smith

I think it's natural for any manager to want to grow his business. The question is at what rate, and in what direction, and in what format? — Wilbur Ross

Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Holless Wilbur Allen

Outside the open window
The morning air is all awash with angels. — Richard Wilbur

The eye is pleased when nature stoops to art. — Richard Wilbur

No bird can soar in a calm. — Wilbur Wright

Most women know that sex isgood for headaches. — Richard Wilbur

My father was my god. His approval was so valuable to me. — Wilbur Smith

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies. — Wilbur Wright

Ships are a strange kind of commodity because they're very lumpy, very big individual units, but they're commodities. — Wilbur Ross

They say I'm worth either â‚¬200 million, â‚¬100 million, â‚¬50 million or â‚¬10 million, but that's something between God, the HMRC and myself. — Wilbur Smith

There's nothing so aphrodisiacal for a woman as money and success. — Wilbur Smith

We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity. — Ray Lyman Wilbur

attempt to escape, — Wilbur Smith

It is not tricks of sense But the time's fright within me which distracts Least fancies into violence — Richard Wilbur

Trust me, Wilbur. People are very gullible. They'll believe anything they see in print. — E.B. White

Fly for me, Bird of the Sun. — Wilbur Smith

I Don't Have Time For Both A Wife And An Airplane. — Wilbur Wright

To claim, at a dead party, to have spotted a grackle,
When in fact you haven't of late, can do no harm. — Richard Wilbur

My mother-in-law speaks not a word of English. I speak not a word of Tajiki. So I smile at her ingratiatingly and she fixes me with a beady eye. — Wilbur Smith

It was Wilbur Larch who was the first man in Maine to call a television what it was: an idiot box. — John Irving

My first novel was rejected by some of the most eminent publishers in the world. Starting again was a real wrench. — Wilbur Smith

I like eggs and bacon," George tells me. "But" - his face clouds - "do you know that bacon is" - tears leap to his eyes - "Wilbur? — Huntley Fitzpatrick

Once in his lifetime every artist feels the hand of God and creates something that comes alive. — Crane Wilbur

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. — Wilbur Wright

A thrush, because I'd been wrong, Burst rightly into song In a world not vague, not lonely, Not governed by me only. — Richard Wilbur

Wilbur brought the vision and Rodney executed it. — Gerard Butler

I have never had too much trouble for creative ideas to spring up in my mind. — Wilbur Smith

What's lightly hid is deepest understood, — Richard Wilbur

Duplicity thy name is woman! — Wilbur Smith

Wave of sound swept over the ring as every man in the convocation shouted together. — Wilbur Smith

The maxim that the "best is the cheapest" does not apply to food. — Wilbur Olin Atwater

History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead. — Wilbur Smith

wisdom of the outdoors, until — Wilbur Smith

Failure makes success so much sweeter, and allows you to thumb your nose at the crowds. — Wilbur Smith

Sometimes it is best for men not to attempt to interfere with destiny. Our prayers can be answered in ways which we do not expect and do not welcome. — Wilbur Smith

It is always a matter, my darling,
Of life or death, as I had forgotten. I wish
What I wished you before, but harder. — Richard Wilbur

I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness. — Wilbur Smith

When I vacate this sack of old bones I won't care what you do with it. Bury or burn it but don't make much fuss. — Wilbur Smith

We have worked all day to tidy the mess you have made. — Wilbur Smith

Beware of your most implacable enemy-yourself. — Wilbur Smith

I grew up in Rhodesia on my father's ranch and every year he used to take us on safari in some remote area of the wilderness. — Wilbur Smith

There was always a pass through the reef where the sweet water inhibited the growth of the coral. As — Wilbur Smith

The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation. — Ray Lyman Wilbur

It is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911 — David McCullough

Odd that a thing is most itself when likened — Richard Wilbur

they chewed on the cud. — Wilbur Smith

To me, my characters are more real than most people I meet. — Wilbur Smith

Banking, I would argue, is the most heavily regulated industry in the world. Regulations don't solve things. Supervision solves things. — Wilbur Ross

Composition for me is, externally at least, scarcely distinguishable from catatonia. — Richard Wilbur

If I have to die, then it's best to do so before I see everything I love, the land, the animals, the people, all of it destroyed. — Wilbur Smith

Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive. — Wilbur Wright

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know — Richard Wilbur

It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full. — Wilbur Smith

chariots that I would design with — Wilbur Smith

It's not the dying but the manner of it. — Wilbur Smith

Yet such is the perversity of human nature that I hungered for what I could never have and dreamed of the impossible. — Wilbur Smith

but death is the ultimate purpose of life. — Wilbur Smith

Wilbur blushed. "But I'm not terrific, Charlotte. I'm just about average for a pig." "You're — E.B. White

Wilbur had already made an immensely important and altogether original advance toward their goal. — David McCullough

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K. — Wilbur Smith

No bird soars in a calm. WILBUR WRIGHT — David McCullough

When it comes to fashion, even the most sensible woman is not to be trusted. — Wilbur Smith

I know it's politically incorrect but I enjoy things like the kick boxing and cock fighting. — Wilbur Smith

President Johnson had a habit of throwing dollars at a question and the question would disappear. — Wilbur Mills

It is a newspaper's duty to print the news and raise hell. Wilbur Storey — Harold Holzer

If the Wright Brothers were alive today, Orville would have to lay off Wilbur. — Robert Crandall

I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa. — Wilbur Smith

Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them. — Wilbur Smith

We could hardly wait to get up in the morning. — Wilbur Wright

Should five slaves dictate to a king? If five baboons bark, must the black-maned lion tremble? — Wilbur Smith

This book is dedicated to Wilbur and Orville Wright, without whom air sickness would still be just a dream. — Dave Barry

All my characters have got a big slice of me in them. A big piece of me, because it's my dialogue and this is the way I think and talk. — Wilbur Smith

It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one. — Wilbur Smith

What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit? — Richard Wilbur

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday. — Wilbur Smith

But those set to guard a treasure, are too often those who loot it. — Wilbur Smith

You're too old for this type of living,' he told — Wilbur Smith

Happiness cannot last, he thought. It is too intense. — Wilbur Smith

we arrived at the army's main encampment all — Wilbur Smith