Every war is ironic because every war is worse than expected. Every war constitutes an irony of situation because its means are so melodramatically disproportionate to its presumed ends.

The history of persecution is a history of endeavors to cheat nature, to make water run up hill, to twist a rope of sand.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Empty pockets make empty heads.

William Carlos Williams

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

Bertolt Brecht

The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.

Tacitus

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means.

Susan Sontag

The whole problem is to establish communication with ones self.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science.

Robert Green Ingersoll

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

Adoniram Judson

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

Alphonse de Lamartine

Over the years, I've come to realize that determination makes one to punch above one's weight.

Ogwo David Emenike

Somebody has to tell the E.P.A. that we don't need you monkeying around and fiddling around and getting in our business with every kind of regulation you can dream up. You're doing nothing more than killing jobs. It's a cemetery for jobs at the E.P.A.

Rick Perry

No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

Tacitus