Charles Adams Quotes (12 Quotes)

We can't live without taxes, but we sure would like to have good ones.

Any exposed piping, go ahead and cover it with foam insulation.

The course has a strong practical element. Although it covers the theory of corrosion, the main emphasis is on practical advice based on actual examples from the yachting industry.

As an editor, I've always known that memoirs are selective truth. I don't know that I've ever known anybody who created things, made them up, so much as I know that people edit their memories. We all do this.

It's three inches thick, so it's going to keep all the heat inside your water heater that otherwise would be radiating out into your room.

If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.

You peel the back of the tape off, so when you go around the door, it seals those gaps off.

Buy a tin of food with no wrapper and be surprised at tea time.

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.

Secession by the South was a reaction against Lincoln's high-tax policy. In 1861 the slave issue was not critical.

Rulers do not reduce taxes to be kind. Expediency and greed create high taxation, and normally it takes an impending catastrophe to bring it down.

Because she sat where she sat, we are now sitting in Congress, ... We are sitting in the Supreme Court. We are sitting as CEOs and heads of universities.