No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

I can resist everything except temptation.

We don’t have to guess what Mitt Romney would have done if he were president. Because he told us. He said we should let foreclosures – and I quote – ‚hit the bottom‘ so the market could – I quote – ‚run its course.‘

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

People see me on the street, and they point to me, and they’re like, ‚Hey! All right, all right, all right!‘

You and I, the people of God, have permission to come before the throne of Heaven at any time we will, and we are encouraged to come there with great boldness.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.

The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.

Never was it given to mortal man – To lie so boldly as we women can.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

I’m a bold Christian, not a scaredy-cat Christian.

There is nothing so stable as change.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Littera scripta manet – ‚The written word will remain‘. That’s true, but it won’t be that much comfort to me.

As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don’t like their rules, whose would you use?

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Swearing is industry language. For as long as we’re alive it’s not going to change. You’ve got to be boisterous to get results.

If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men’s cottage princes‘ palaces.

They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it’s not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction.

A lie cannot live.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Nature is not human hearted.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

That which does not kill us makes us stronger.