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  • #1
    William Francis Butler
    “The nation that will insist on drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is liable to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking done by cowards.”
    William Francis Butler, Charles George Gordon

  • #2
    Thucydides
    “War is a matter not so much of arms as of money.”
    Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War

  • #3
    Thucydides
    “Some legislators only wish to vengeance against a particular enemy. Others only look out for themselves. They devote very little time on the consideration of any public issue. They think that no harm will come from their neglect. They act as if it is always the business of somebody else to look after this or that. When this selfish notion is entertained by all, the commonwealth slowly begins to decay. ”
    Thucydides

  • #4
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #6
    Maurice Switzer
    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
    Maurice Switzer, Mrs. Goose, Her Book

  • #7
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    Mark Twain

  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #9
    Albert Einstein
    “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #10
    Albert Einstein
    “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #11
    Mark Twain
    “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.”
    Mark Twain

  • #12
    Mark Twain
    “Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
    Mark Twain

  • #13
    Mark Twain
    “Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”
    Mark Twain

  • #14
    Mark Twain
    “Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
    Mark Twain

  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?”
    Mark Twain

  • #16
    Mark Twain
    “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
    Mark Twain

  • #17
    Mark Twain
    “Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
    Mark Twain

  • #18
    Mark Twain
    “God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
    Mark Twain

  • #19
    Mark Twain
    “If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed.”
    Mark Twain

  • #20
    Mark Twain
    “History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
    Mark Twain

  • #21
    Laurence J. Peter
    “Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.”
    Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle

  • #22
    Albert Einstein
    “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #23
    Albert Einstein
    “Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters”
    Albert Einstein

  • #24
    Albert Einstein
    “When the solution is simple, God is answering.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #25
    Mark Twain
    “The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.”
    Mark Twain

  • #26
    Mark Twain
    “A clear conscience is the sure sign of a bad memory.”
    Mark Twain

  • #27
    Mark Twain
    “When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.”
    Mark Twain

  • #28
    Mark Twain
    “When angry, count four. When very angry, swear.”
    Mark Twain

  • #29
    Mark Twain
    “A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was getting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.”
    Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

  • #30
    Groucho Marx
    “I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.”
    Groucho Marx

  • #31
    Groucho Marx
    “Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.”
    Groucho Marx



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