“Take care of the luxury, and the necessities will take care of themselves.”
-Oscar Wilde
“When people agree with me, I always feel that I must be wrong.
-Oscar Wilde, the Critic as an Artist
“If I had two faces, would I be showing you this one?”
-Abraham Lincoln
“The first thing we have to do is to kill all the lawyers.”
-William Shakespeare, Henry VI
“No me daráspena y ninguno se entregarapor ti.”
-[No quarter asked, and none given.]
“They are able because they think they are able.”
-Virgil, The Aeneid
“A wise man knows everything; a shrewd one, everybody.
-Anonymous
“Heaven ne’er helps the men who will not act.”
-Sophocles
“America is a tune. It must be sung together.”
-Gerald Stanley Lee, Crowds
“This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.”
-Samuel L. Clemens, Pudd’n head Wilson
“Beware the fury of a patient man.”
-Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel
“No sensible person ever made an apology.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Wise men argue cause and fools decide them.”
-Anacharsis
“Fortune favors the audacious.”
-Desiderus Erasmus