Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Can you top this?

Liberty, equality, fraternity.

People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

He had been, he said, an unconscionable time dying; but he hoped that they would excuse it.

What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?

Optimist: A man who gets treed by a lion but enjoys the scenery.

Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, through the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.

Prosperity depends more on wanting what you have than having what you want.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature or do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

He was the word that spake it, He took the bread and brake it; And what that word did make it, I do believe and take it.

Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

Only little people pay taxes.

Education is not a preparation for life, education is life itself.

Why wilt thou add to all the griefs I suffer Imaginary ills, and fancy'd tortures?

It was swept under the carpet.

A cult is a religion with no political power.

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself.