Robert Byrne Quotations

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Winter is nature's way of saying, 'Up yours.'

Until you walk a mile in another man's moccasins you can't imagine the smell.

Memorial Service: Farewell party for someone who already left.

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.

Doing a thing well is often a waste of time.

Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.

Anybody who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography.

No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life.

Properties that are undervalued get pushed up to value or above because there will be more than one person interested. Once buyers get drawn into a negotiation, they get focused on winning the house and often lose track of the price they pay.

People can argue back and forth whether climate is going to change, but they can't argue that (acidity) is going to change, because we can predict that with certainty and we can see it's happening. The effects in the end are going to be global.

Anyone who believes that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach flunked geography

In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.