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Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven, in Success and Failure

Sloppy thinking gets worse over time.

Jenny Holzer, in Wisdom and Ignorance

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

Hermione Gingold, in Food and Drink

Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.

Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.

Daniel Boorstin, in Success and Failure

Life's tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Benjamin Franklin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

We must become the change we want to see.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Egotism is the anesthetic given by a kindly nature to relieve the pain of being a damned fool.

Bellamy Brooks, in Altruism and Cynicism

The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.

Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts, in Life and Death

An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.

Mahatma Gandhi, in Vice and Virtue

Delay is preferable to error.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.

George Patton, in War and Peace and Work and Recreation

Ignorance does not necesarilly mean one has a lack of wisdom, for a most ignorant person can be one with much wisdom. It's "live and learn" that creates wisdom.

Austin Holmes, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.

Robert J. Oppenheimer, (quoting the Bhagavadgita after witnessing the first nuclear explosion), in War and Peace

He who spends his time reading aphorisms of another to have one of his own, has no time or brains to have any of his own.

M. Bernheisel, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Positive anything is better than negative nothing.

Elbert Hubbard, in Success and Failure

An aphorism is not an aphorism unless you know what it means.

Winston Churchill, in Wisdom and Ignorance

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.

Benjamin Disraeli, in Science and Religion

The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Edward Gibbon, in Success and Failure

Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.

Edward Everett, in War and Peace and Wisdom and Ignorance