The luxury of one's own opinion.
 Otto von Bismarck
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
 George F. Kennan
Let us put Germany in the saddle, so to speak--it already knows how to ride.
 Otto von Bismarck
The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.
 George F. Kennan
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
 Richard Cumberland
Our manifest destiny is to overspread the continent allotted by Providence for the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.
 John Louis O'Sullivan
Life is too short, and Proust is too long.
 Anatole France
It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of the truth.
 John Locke
Self is hateful.
 Blaise Pascal
No law, written or unwritten, can be understood without a full knowledge of the facts out of which it arises, and to which it is to be applied.
 Louis Brandeis
God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness.
 William Stoughton
To ridicule philosophy is really to philosophize.
 Blaise Pascal
Things are always at their best in their beginning.
 Blaise Pascal
Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.
 Blaise Pascal
I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
 Blaise Pascal
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--forever.
 George Orwell
A woman always has her revenge ready.
 Molière
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
 Graham Greene
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
 Henry David Thoreau
I always make the first verse well, but I have trouble making the others.
 Molière
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