History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

    Thomas A. Edison
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything

The English are not an inventive people; they don't eat enough pie

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls, and looks like work.

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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    Dwight D. Eisenhower
I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

Americans, indeed all freemen, remember that in the final choice, a soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as aprisoner's chains.

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

    T.S. Eliot
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

    Walter Elliott
Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you think.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Vigor is contagious, and whatever makes us either think or feel strongly ads to our power and enlarges our field of action.

What lies behind us and lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us

A man is known by the books he reads.

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis

The reward of a thing well done is to have it done.

Patience and fortitude conquer all things.

Truth is beautiful, without a doubt. But so are lies.

Men are what their mothers made them

Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body

    Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

    Desiderius Erasmus
War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

    Paul Erdos
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into thereoms.

    Marie Ebner-Eschenbach
In youth we learn; in age we understand.

    Euripides
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

    Richard Exely
Failing doesn't make you a failure. Giving up, accepting your failure, refusing to try again does!

    Antoine de Saint Exupery
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.