Quote #1666
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Quote #9649
Building castles in the air, and making yourself a laughing-stock.
Quote #12835
The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.
Quote #12393
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Quote #20993
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like...
Quote #14417
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Quote #12544
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Quote #13758
You can’t tell me that cowboys, when they’re branding cattle, don’t sort of ‘accidentally’...
Quote #13119
Fragile as reason is and limited as law is as the institutionalised medium of...
Quote #4337
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.