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Stanislaus I: What is fame?...

Stanislaus I: What is fame?...

What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as...

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George III: George the Third...

George III: George the Third...

George the Third
Ought never to have occurred
One can only wonder
At so grotesque a...

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Christina of Sweden: Life becomes useless...

Christina of Sweden: Life becomes useless...

Life becomes useless and insipid when we have no longer either friends or enemies.

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Christina of Sweden: God has neither...

Christina of Sweden: God has neither...

God has neither form nor shape under which we can know Him; when he speaks of Himself in metaphors and similes, He is...

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Marie Antoinette: Qu'ils mangent de...

Marie Antoinette: Qu'ils mangent de...

'Qu'ils mangent de la brioche.' Let them eat cake.

Source: Traditional but wrong...

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Marie Antoinette: I was a...

Marie Antoinette: I was a...

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my...

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Elizabeth II: We lost the...

Elizabeth II: We lost the...

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding...

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Louis XIV: Whatever side I...

Louis XIV: Whatever side I...

Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be blamed.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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James I: He was a...

James I: He was a...

He was a bold man who first swallowed an oyster.

Source: Attributed by Thomas...

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Jennie Jerome Churchill: He has a...

Jennie Jerome Churchill: He has a...

He has a future and I have a past, so we should be all right.

Source: Referring to...

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Denis Healey: She approaches the...

Denis Healey: She approaches the...

She approaches the problem of our country with all the one-dimensional subtlety of a comic...

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Franklin Pierce: [F]requently the more...

Franklin Pierce: [F]requently the more...

[F]requently the more trifling the subject the more animated and protracted the...

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Ulysses S Grant: My failures have...

Ulysses S Grant: My failures have...

My failures have been errors in judgment, not of intent.

Source: Speech, 5 Dec...

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Theodore Roosevelt: Far better to...

Theodore Roosevelt: Far better to...

Far better to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with...

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Harry S Truman: It is amazing...

Harry S Truman: It is amazing...

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

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Lyndon B Johnson: We must open...

Lyndon B Johnson: We must open...

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those...

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Lyndon B Johnson: I'm a compromiser...

Lyndon B Johnson: I'm a compromiser...

I'm a compromiser and a maneuverer. I try to get something. That's the way our system...

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Richard Nixon: Let us begin...

Richard Nixon: Let us begin...

Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth --to see it like it is, and tell it like it is --to find the truth,...

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Richard Nixon: Success is not...

Richard Nixon: Success is not...

Success is not a harbor but a voyage with its own perils to the spirit. The game of life is to come up a winner, to be...

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James Madison: It will be...

James Madison: It will be...

It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so...

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