Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. Indeed he has a lot to be modest about.
Winston Churchill
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
In bridge clubs and in councils of state the passions are the same.
Mason Cooley
During times of universal deceit telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
Thomas Merton
The world is quickly bored by the recital of misfortune and willing avoids the sight of distress.
W. Somerset Maugham
We say little when vanity does not make us speak.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Such hath it been - shall be - beneath the sun the many still must labor for the one
Lord Byron
Let us be of good cheer however remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.
James Russell Lowell
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
Laurence J. Peter
