Great Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

Paul Tabori, _The Natural Science of Stupidity_. (New York: ChiltonCompany, 1960), p. 104.


Modern war has decimated many a country; but it has always spawned millions of bureaucrats. They fatten on shortages and thrive on trouble. Peace can never offer such opportunities for exercising petty tyrannies, using red tape to regiment the individual and making life generally unpleasant.

Steve Chandler


There are no optimistic or pessimistic personalities. There are only single, individual choices for optimistic or pessimistic thoughts.

William Feather


A hotel isn't like a home, but it's better than being a house guest.

Alexander Pope


Let me tell you I am better acquainted with you for a long absence, as men are with themselves for a long affliction absence does but hold off a friend, to make one see him the truer.

Cornelius Tacitus


That cannot be safe which is not honourable.

Henry Clay


I had rather be right than be President.

James Thurber


It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde


When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

Havelock Ellis


The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Horace


Whatever advice you give, be brief.

William Shakespeare


And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.

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