We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

George Carlin

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called facts. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no facts at this table.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

Debbie Harry

American Beer is a lot like making love on a canoe - it's fucking close to water.

Eric Idle

Pakistan not only means freedom and independence but the Muslim Ideology which has to be preserved, which has come to us as a precious gift and treasure and which, we hope other will share with us.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

To err is human to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish poetry comes more closely in many respects to Japanese poetry than any other form of Western poetry.

Lafcadio Hearn

It's a terribly hard job to spend a billion dollars and get your money's worth.

George M. Humphrey

Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.

Gutzkow