Almost Quotes

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. ~ Every class is unfit to govern … Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.

There is nothing to match the whoosh and soar, the almost magical flight of a beautifully hit drive or 5-iron.

Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority: still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority.

I feel like I wrote that. If I go in there and fix it, it’s almost like something I wrote.

I can’t read in a car, because I’ll get sick. It’s almost instant.

I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.

And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.

I own almost 100 hotels in North America. Some of them are only in management, but some of them we have some small stakes in them.

It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals.