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In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.

Robert Byrne, in Vice and Virtue

He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower.

Mary Howitt, in Happiness and Misery

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

Hans A. Bethe, in War and Peace

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

Winston Churchill, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Let's have some new clichés.

Samuel Goldwyn, in Art and Literature

Kindness is the beginning of cruelty.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Altruism and Cynicism

By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.

Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.

Frank Herbert, Dune, in Work and Recreation

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Christian Nevell Bovee, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics

Wise men don't need advice; fools don't take it.

Benjamin Franklin, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Silence is argument carried out by other means.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in Wisdom and Ignorance

You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.

Elbert Hubbard, in Wisdom and Ignorance

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

Thomas Jefferson, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation

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.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Lao Tsu, in Wealth and Poverty

It costs to be stupid. The stupider you are, the more it costs.

Sherrill Brown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Boring people are a reflection of boring people.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

Philip K. Dick, in Science and Religion

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in War and Peace

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

John F. Kennedy, (comment when asked about his heroism), in War and Peace