Showing posts with label hypocrisy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hypocrisy. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Please send me your comments

British author W. Somerset Maugham (Of Human Bondage) was born on this day in 1874. He wrote:

"People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise."
 

Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Cross your heart, and your fingers

The Pledge of Allegiance was sanctioned by Congress on this day in 1945.


"Nothing like a solemn oath. People always think you mean it." -- Norman Douglas.