They Say

I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have.

Once you don't smile on film, they say, 'Let's have that bloke who doesn't smile.'

What white man can say I never stole his land or a penny of his money? Yet they say that I am a thief.

Some women flirt more with what they say, and some with what they do.

They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

I don't argue with people... if they say I'm not funny, they're right, for them.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

Don't trust everyone, especially if they say, 'Trust me.'

Truth, they say, is but too often in difficulties, but is never finally suppressed.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, 'Huh. It works. It makes sense.'

Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

Incongruity, they say, is one of the main ingredients of humor. Maybe it's because everybody can feel superior to me. I honestly don't know.

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.

How can they say my life is not a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?