Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.

Johann von Goethe

For the duration of its collective life, or the time during which its identity may be assumed, each class resembles a hotel or an omnibus, always full, but always of different people.

Joseph Schumpeter

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Phoebe Cary

My strength never came from political echelons, it came from the family. And from the fields and the lands and the flowers and everything I see there. My strength came from there.

Ariel Sharon

Friendships that have stood the test of time and chance are surely best, Brows may wrinkle, hair grow gray, Friendship never knows decay.

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However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

Nicholas Boileau

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

Eckhart Tolle

Poverty is multidimensional. It extends beyond money incomes to education, health care, political participation and advancement of one's own culture and social organisation.

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

A young man married is a man that's marred.

William Shakespeare

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Eleanor Marx

There's always an article coming out, saying, 'The new thing is funny women!'

Lena Dunham

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Warren Harding