If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.
All other men are specialists, but his specialty is omniscience.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it.
Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really merely commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the planning, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chain of events, working through generations and leading to the most outer results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable.
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance is a philanthropist who has spent nearly a quarter of a million upon the London poor.
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.
When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible.
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature.
I never guess. It is a shocking habit -- destructive to the logical faculty.
What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.
Antoine De SaintExupery
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated -- there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.
A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanations.
Saki [Hector Hugh Munro]
Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.
Children are given to us to discourage our better emotions.
I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk
I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the nightmares because of my dreams.
To like and dislike the same things, this is what makes a solid friendship.
Sallust
He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
We employ the mind to rule, the body to serve.
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Those most moved to tears by every word of a preacher are generally weak and a rascal when the feelings evaporate.
We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.
Sir Winston Churchill
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.
No comment is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
I have never accepted what many people have kindly said-namely that I inspired the nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless, and as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it.
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter
True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.
From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
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