History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
[Among the Arapeh. . . both father and mother are held responsible for child care by the entire community. . . ] If one comments upon a middle-aged man as good-looking, the people answer: 'Good-looking? Ye-e-e-s? But you should have seen him before he bore all those children'.
The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
A lot of teams, I think, are just happy to make the post-season. Here, you have to win.