Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person goodnight.
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen Glasgow
One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
Gail Godwin
Our movement took a grip on cowardly Marxism and from it extracted the meaning of socialism. It also took from the cowardly middle-class parties their nationalism. Throwing both into the cauldron of our way of life there emerged, as clear as a crystal, the synthesis -- German National Socialism.
Hermann Goering
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Stephen Covey
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, attributed,
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
Plato
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
Anatole France
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.
Harry Firestone
I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
Dave Barry
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Josh Billings
The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.
Edward W. Howe
The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.
Kin Hubbard
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
Michel de Montaigne
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
James Fenimore Cooper
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
John Stuart Mill
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.
Alan Coren
Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy.
Robert Anthony
The grand essentials of happiness are: something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Allan K. Chalmers
Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.
Benjamin Disraeli
Happiness is not a destination. It is a method of life.
Burton Hills
Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.
Cynthia Nelms
Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead.
Scottish Proverb
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon
It is better that ten guilty escape than one innocent suffer.
William Blackstone, 'Commentarie
Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke
The law isn't justice. It's a very imperfect mechanism. If you press exactly the right buttons and are also lucky, justice may show up in the answer. A mechanism is all the law was ever intended to be.
Raymond Chandler
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Norm Crosby
There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.
Clarence Darrow
A court is a place where what was confused before becomes more unsettled than ever.
Henry Waldorf Francis
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.can be found attributed to: Herbert Spencer, Robert Frost, Michael Pritchard, John Fredericksen, humorous
Anon.
Justice is incidental to law and order.
J. Edgar Hoover
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H. L. Mencken
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
Mark Twain
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