When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?
At Kiel, as elsewhere, a day goes by somehow or other.
In lighthearted countries, people joked about this phenomenon, but such serious, practical countries as England, America, and Germany were deeply concerned.
Great robbers always resemble honest folk. Fellows who have rascally faces have only one course to take, and that is to remain honest; otherwise, they would be arrested off-hand.
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.
[we see that] science is eminently perfectible, and that each theory has constantly to give way to a fresh one.
Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.
Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.
Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.
Gratitude unifies the mind of man with the intelligence of substance, so that man's thoughts are received by the formless.
Buhari is a child crawling at 72, he has nothing to offer