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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
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
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
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
Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
— Ray Lyman Wilbur
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
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 windowThe 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
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
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
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
What's lightly hid is deepest understood,
— Richard Wilbur
Duplicity thy name is woman!
— 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
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
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
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
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
I love the sea as much as I love the veldt of Africa.
— 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
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