The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.
- Abraham Lincoln
In fact history does not belong to us; but we belong to it.
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.
- Jimmy Durante
One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears by listening to them.
- Dean Rusk
It is said that the night brings counsel, but it is not said that the counsel is necessarily good.
- Jules Verne
Sometimes I thank God… for cheeseburgers.
- Garth Brooks
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.
- Ronald Reagan
If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of me.
- Dwight L. Moody
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.
- Rosa Parks
Common sense is very uncommon.
- Horace Greeley
The purpose of education is to keep a culture from being drowned in senseless repetitions, each of which claims to offer a new insight.
- Harold Rosenberg
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
I know at last what distinguishes man from animals; financial worries.
- Romain Rolland
I’m not too interested in talking about the past. It doesn’t do us any good whatsoever.
- Gregg Popovich
Death and the dice level all distinctions.
- Samuel Foote
Every man without passions has within him no principle of action, nor motive to act.
- Claude Adrien Helvetius
You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
- Virginia Woolf
He who defends everything defends nothing.
- Frederick the Great
The greatest ability in business is to get along with others and to influence their actions.
- John Hancock
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
- Lord Byron
The fact is, I diet every day of my life. I have to work at it. But I diet so I can pig out.
- Jack Nicklaus
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
- Robert E. Lee
There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.
- Montesquieu
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
- Benjamin Franklin