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Joseph-Desire Mobutu Sese Seko: Mature, or not...

Joseph-Desire Mobutu Sese Seko: Mature, or not...

Mature, or not mature, a fruit falls in face of the storm of history. [Mure, ou pas mure, un fruit tombe comme meme...

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Joseph-Desire Mobutu Sese Seko: I will sell...

Joseph-Desire Mobutu Sese Seko: I will sell...

I will sell by head at a very high cost. [Je venderai ma tete tres chere.]

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Elizabeth I: Brass shines as...

Elizabeth I: Brass shines as...

Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.

Source: Letter,...

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George McGovern: You know, sometimes,...

George McGovern: You know, sometimes,...

You know, sometimes, when they say you are ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad...

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Jennie Jerome Churchill: There is no...

Jennie Jerome Churchill: There is no...

There is no such thing as a moral dress -- it's people who are moral or immoral.

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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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Daniel Moynihan: Citizen participation [is]...

Daniel Moynihan: Citizen participation [is]...

Citizen participation [is] a device whereby public officials induce nonpublic individuals to act in a way the...

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Daniel Moynihan: It is perhaps...

Daniel Moynihan: It is perhaps...

It is perhaps common in the world for individuals and nations to suffer for their noble qualities more than for their...

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William Howard Taft: One cannot always...

William Howard Taft: One cannot always...

One cannot always be sure of the truth of what one hears if he happens to be President of the United...

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Richard Nixon: I would have...

Richard Nixon: I would have...

I would have made a good Pope.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, ed....

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John Quincy Adams: I inhabit a...

John Quincy Adams: I inhabit a...

I inhabit a weak, frail, decayed tenement battered by the winds and broken in on by the storms, and, from all I can...

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Thomas Jefferson: A good cause...

Thomas Jefferson: A good cause...

A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies....

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Thomas Jefferson: Great innovations should...

Thomas Jefferson: Great innovations should...

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Source: Letter, 2 May...

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Naomi Mitchison: It was all...

Naomi Mitchison: It was all...

It was all coming out from somewhere, and I just had the job of writing it down. I was, however, determined that the...

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Brian Moore: As always on...

Brian Moore: As always on...

As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every...

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John Fowles: Men love war...

John Fowles: Men love war...

Men love war because it allows them to look serious. Because it is the one thing that stops women laughing at...

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Gloria Naylor: I don't believe...

Gloria Naylor: I don't believe...

I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed...

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Gloria Naylor: One should be...

Gloria Naylor: One should be...

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire...

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Aldous Huxley: The smallest fact...

Aldous Huxley: The smallest fact...

The smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

Source: cited...

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Hugh Walpole: It isn't life...

Hugh Walpole: It isn't life...

It isn't life that matters, it's the courage you bring to it.

Source: In My...

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