The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.
Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.
Alphonse de Lamartine
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
James Russell Lowell
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
C. S. Lewis
Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by day.
Sometimes, when one person is missing, the whole world seems depopulated.
A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many.
Marilyn Monroe
Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.
We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.
Warren Buffett
Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
Sentiment is the poetry of the imagination.
I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites.
Nelson Mandela
Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God.
Thomas a Kempis
The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who move them.
I'm like a 6 on a scale of 1-20
Hope Denton
No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Graham Greene
A conscience without God is like a court without a judge.
Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.
Donald Rumsfeld
A child is fed with milk and praise.
Mary Lamb
I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.
Diane Wakoski
Pornography is literature designed to be read with one hand.
Angela Lambert
Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.
Corrie Ten Boom
Even as a kid I was never the generator of humor, but I always knew who was funny, who to hang out with.
Andrew Stanton
The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them.
Madame De Lambert
If we want everything to remain as it is, it will be necessary for everything to change.
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
A rut is a grave with no ends.
Alan Lampkin
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
Samuel Johnson
A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable.
Leslie Lamport
All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.
George Wald
I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.
Burt Lancaster
Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
Jack Herer
She looked as though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth --or anywhere else.
Else Lanchester
And what we've lost sight of is that performing manual labor with your hands is one of the most incredibly satisfying and positive things you can do.
Nick Offerman
The bottom line is in heaven.
Edwin H. Land
The 'Bird's Nest' National Stadium, which I helped to conceive, is designed to embody the Olympic spirit of 'fair competition.' It tells people that freedom is possible but needs fairness, courage and strength.
Ai Weiwei
Politeness is the slow poison of collaboration.
Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity.
We can take full comfort in realizing the continuing strength of our nation. America's lands remain radiantly rich with diversity, and freedom still reigns.
Ben Nelson
The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail.
Better be alone than in bad company.
Thomas Fuller
Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.
Saul Landau
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