Albert Einstein

No problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it
 
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.


A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
 
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.
 
 

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
 

 Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Everything should be as simple as it is, but not simpler.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Force always attracts men of low morality.

God always takes the simplest way.

God does not play dice.

God may be subtle, but he isn't plain mean.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil.

I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.

I have just got a new theory of eternity.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

Information is not knowledge.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
 

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.

Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Most people say that is it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Never lose a holy curiosity.

No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.
 

Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

People love chopping wood. In this activity one immediately sees results.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
 

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.
 

 The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

The environment is everything that isn't me.

The faster you go, the shorter you are.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
 
 The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

The only real valuable thing is intuition.
 

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

The only source of knowledge is experience.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder.

The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler.

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.
 

To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.

Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.  
 
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.

 You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

Cato the Elder 234 - 149 BC

"Rem tene; verba sequentur." (Grasp the subject, the words will follow.)

"Delenda est Carthago" (Carthage must be destroyed) 

Winston Churchill

•  I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. 

• A joke is a very serious thing. 

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

• A man does what he must - in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers and pressures - and that is the basis of all human morality. 

• A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. 

• A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. 

• A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. 

• All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. 

• Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. 

• Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. 

•  An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
   
• Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. 
   
• Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.  

• Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.  

• Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.
   
• Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.
   
• Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.
   
• Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others.
   
• Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
   
• Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

•  Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.
   
•  Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.
   
• Eating words has never given me indigestion.
   
•  Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
   
•  Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
   
•  For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.
   
•  For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
   
•  From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
   
•  Great and good are seldom the same man.
   
•  He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

• I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. 

• I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. 

• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

• I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns. 

• I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.

•  I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

• I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
  I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
  I like a man who grins when he fights.   
  I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
   
• I never worry about action, but only inaction.
   
•  I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside.
   
•  I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.
   
•  If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
   
•  If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
   
•  If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
   
•  If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
   
•  If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
   
•  If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
   
•  If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. 

•   If you're going through hell, keep going. 
   
   In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
  
  In those days he was wiser than he is now; he used to frequently take my advice.
  
  In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.
  
  In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
  
  In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
   
   India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.
  
  It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
   
   It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right.
  
  It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
  
  
  It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.
  
  It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
  
  It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
  
  It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
  
  It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
  
  Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
  
  Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.
  
  Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
  
  Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
  
  Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
   
• Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
  
  
  My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
  
  My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them.
  
  My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop.
  
  Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
  
  Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
  
  Never, never, never give up.
  
  "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.
  
  No crime is so great as daring to excel.
  
  No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
  
  
  No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections.
  
  Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
  
  Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
   
•  Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
  
  One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
  
  One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!
  
  Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.
  
  Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
  
  Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game.
  
  Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.   

• Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
   
  Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
  
  Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
  
  Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better.
  
  Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
  
  Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
  
  Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
  
  Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
  
  Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.
  
  Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.
  
  Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
  
  Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
  
  Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
  
  The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
  
  The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.
  
  The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
  
  The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
  
  The first quality that is needed is audacity.
  
  The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
  
  The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

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  The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
  
  The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
  
  The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.
  
  The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
  
  The price of greatness is responsibility.
  
  The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.
   
   The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
  
  The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
   
   The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.
   
   There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
  
  There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
  
  There is no such thing as a good tax.
  
  There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
  
  These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
  
  This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.
  
  This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.
  
  Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
  
  To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
  
  To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
  
  To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war.
• Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.
  
  True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
  
  Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
  
  War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.
  
  War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.
  
  We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.
  
  We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.
  
  We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
  
  We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
  
  We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.
  
  We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English.
  
  We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
  
  We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
  
  We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
  
  We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.
  
  We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
  
  We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.
  
  What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?
  
  When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
  
  When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin.
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  When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.
   
•  When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
  
  Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse.
  
  You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
  
  You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.

Abraham Lincoln

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. "

"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. "

"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? 
Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."

"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be." 

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

"Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."

"The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time"

"The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."

"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

John Wayne

"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid"