Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. (Mark Twain)
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. (Confucius)
We will either find a way, or make one (Hannibal)
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex. (Oscar Wilde)
He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly... (Proverbs 1417a Bible)
The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality. (Henry Louis Mencken)
We learn the rope of life by untying its knots. (Jean Toomer)
Whoever is open, loyal, true of humane and affable demeanour honourable himself, and in his judgement of others faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
To come to be you must have a vision of Being, a Dream, a Purpose, a Principle. You will become what your vision is. (Peter Nivio Zarlenga)
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House-with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone. (John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh. (Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire)
'And yet,' demanded Councilor Barlow, 'what's he done Has he ever done a day's work in his life What great cause is he identified with' 'He's identified,' said the first speaker, 'with the great cause of cheering us all up.' (Arnold Bennett)
I can see clearly now ... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate... (Richard Milhous Nixon)
With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. (Charles Dickens)
No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it. (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
It is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while. (Hellen Keller)
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others. (Anais Nin)
An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning. (Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck)
Life is made up of small pleasures. Happiness is made up of those tiny successes. The big ones come too infrequently. And if you don't collect all these tiny successes, the big ones don't really mean anything. (Norman Lear)
Lighter is the wound foreseen. (Cato the Elder)