Quote #11221
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something...
Quote #9576
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring,...
Quote #859
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the...
Quote #17642
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Quote #8953
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of...
Quote #16352
Formula for success Underpromise and overdeliver.
Quote #13872
If aliens from outer space ever come and we show them our civilization and...
Quote #12310
Lasciate ogni speranza voi ch’entrate. (Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here)
Quote #5559
Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing...
Quote #12957
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself — and you are...