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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
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
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
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 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 €200 million, €100 million, €50 million or €10 million, but that's something between God, the HMRC and myself.
— Wilbur Smith
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
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
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
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
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
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
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