Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

The rules which experience suggest are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries.

R. S. Storrs

Soft words are hard arguments.

Thomas Fuller

The Cardinal is at his wit's end -- it is true that he had not far to go.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

True merit is like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes.

Edward F. Halifax

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Lucinda Williams

Numbers constitute the only universal language.

Nathanael West

The myth of the self-made man, has to be profoundly hypocritical: it is the self-serving demonstration that a lie is the truth.

Che Guevara

The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance.

Maya Angelou

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

Junius

The only religious way to think of death is as a part and parcel of life to regard it, with the understanding and the emotions, as the inviolable condition of life.

Thomas Mann

Come fu che le loro labbra s'incontrarono? Come avviene che l'uccello canta, che la neve si scioglie, che la rosa sboccia, che maggio d? i suoi fiori, che l'alba imbianca dietro gli alberi neri le cime frementi delle colline? Un bacio, e fu tutto.

Victor Hugo

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

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