Quote #11

If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen.

More from Nikita Khrushchev

  1. Politicians are the same all over: they promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
  2. When you are skinning your customers you should leave some skin on to grow again so that you can skin them again.
  3. He who cannot eat horsemeat need not do so. Let him eat pork. But he who cannot eat pork, let him eat horsemeat. It's simply a question of …
  4. Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.
  5. It will keep the wolf out.
  6. They talk about who won and who lost. Human reason won. Mankind won.
  7. Don't you worry about the foreign minister. The foreign minister will do anything I tell him. If I say: 'take down your trousers and sit wi…
  8. If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.

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