Quote #727
Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
Quote #24323
Possunt quia posse videntur. (They can because they think they can, from The Aeneid)
Quote #1469
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it...
Quote #8398
An elephant is a mouse, built to government specifications.
Quote #8538
The shah always falls in the end, Saddam always turns on you, and the...
Quote #24058
Happiness is like a sunbeam, which the least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often...
Quote #5029
Did you exchange a walk-on part in a war, for a leading role in...
Quote #25218
Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely...
Quote #34149
There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far...
Quote #3074
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than...