Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.
Strive to maintain appearances, and the world will give you credit for everything else.
Although personally I am pleased that explosives have been invented, I believe we should not improve them.
The politician becomes a statesman when he starts to think about the next generations and not the next elections.
If the present tries to judge the past, it will lose the future.
The further back you can look, the further ahead you will see.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal distribution of wealth. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equitable distribution of misery.
There are three types of people; those who worry themselves to death, those who work themselves to death, and those who bore themselves to death.
Dictatorship, fetishistic devotion to one man, is an ephemeral thing, a state of society in which one cannot express one's own thoughts, in which children denounce their parents to the police; such a state cannot last long.
Quotations, when etched into our memory, suggest original thoughts to us; moreover, they awaken in us the desire to read the authors from whom they have been taken.
Personally, I am always willing to learn, although I don't always like to be given lessons.