Quotes

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever.

If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.

Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

Corporations have neither bodies to be punished, nor souls to be condemned, they therefore do as they like.

The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.

We are sometimes stirred by emotion and take it for zeal.

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be a sometimes a snob.

It takes two to speak the truth,-one to speak, and another to hear.

Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.

Ther are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.

Our life is fritted away by detail ... simplify, simplify.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

But words once spoke can never be recall'd.

Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.

There is a homely adage which runs 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; You will go far.'

Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

You will find it a very good practice always to verify your references, sir!

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Some people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

He knows death to the bone - Man has created death.