Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weeaken or tire. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
It is very easy to tell the difference between man-made and God-made objects. The more you magnify man-made objects, the cruder they look, but the more you magnify God-made objects,…
Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
I have just returned from Boston. It is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island?.to find one real friend…
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
To love beauty is to see light.
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
A reasonable man adapts himself to his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.
Failure is the only opportunity to begin again more intelligently.
Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.
Men have always been afraid that women could get along without them.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
It ain't braggin' if you can back it up.
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can.
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.
Sex between a man and a woman can be absolutely wonderful - provided you get between the right man and the right woman.
If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure.
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Free men are the strongest men.
Some succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.
There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of…
A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
The Nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection,…
Science is not about building a body of known 'facts'. It is a method for asking awkward questions and subjecting them to a reality-check, thus avoiding the human tendency to…
The only good thing about books is that they can be adapted into films.
No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel…
I want to thank everyone who made this night necessary.
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.
There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation than for bread.
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion.
Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.
Children are innocent and love justice, while most adults are wicked and prefer mercy.
To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
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If I ran a school, I'd give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I'd give the top grades to…
So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Strength lies not in defense but in attack.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Woman are meant to be loved, not to be understood.
Funny how the new things are the old things.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters.
Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies.
It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem…
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can…
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.
The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
A bore is a fellow who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.
The best of life is conversation, and the greatest success is confidence, or perfect understanding between two people.
The whole trouble is that we won't let God help us.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers…
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
To be a leader means to be able to move masses.
We'll never know where John Kerry stands on an issue because he?ll take both sides ? all three sides, four sides, however many sides there are ? of an issue.