For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault to speak as he writes, for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
Arthur SchopenhauerA lot of people have said I'd have probably done better in my career if I hadn't looked so cheap and gaudy. But I dress to be comfortable for me and you shouldn't be blamed because you want to look pretty.
Dolly PartonThe Trinitarian believes a virgin to be the mother of a son who is her maker.
Francis BaconI love all men who think even those who think otherwise than myself.
Victor HugoPresidents quickly realize that while a single act might destroy the world they live in no one single decision can make life suddenly better or can turn history around for the good.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI don't mind making jokes but I don't want to look like one.
Marilyn MonroeWhen I say that human beings are just gene machines one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
Richard DawkinsWith foxes we must play the fox.
Thomas FullerThere is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are as it were laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
Eric Hoffer