In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

My dad was a Marine. He was one of the Montford Point Marines. Those are the equivalent of the Tuskegee Airmen for Marines. He's a tough, tough guy. When I was 15 we had a fight, and I didn't speak to him for 10 years.

Larry Elder

Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must.

Victor Hugo

How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!

Ogden Nash

Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

That all men are equal is a proposition which at ordinary times no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Aldous Huxley

Friends are born, not made.

Henry Adams

Sweet are the uses of adversity.

William Shakespeare

Never Be Still unless you're resting. If you're not at rest, you should be taking action.

Brian A. Brown

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Eugene Ionesco

Young people in the business have grown up and made the wrong decisions, or bad decisions, and haven't been good role models. To be someone that people look up to is important to me.

Justin Bieber

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead.

Edward Hoagland

The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.

Oliver Wendell Holmes