Apothegms are the most infallible mirror to represent a…

Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.

— Anonymous

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.

— Tryon Edwards

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

— Thomas Hood

Apothegms are in history, the same as pearls in the sand, or gold in the mine.

— Desiderius Erasmus

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence to decide the issue, because, as…

— Bertrand Russell

An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour…

— Benjamin Franklin

The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

— Dave Eggers

The impious presumption of legislators and rulers, civil as well as ecclesiastical, who, being themselves but fallible and uninspired men, have assumed dominion over…

— Thomas Jefferson

Some claim a place in the list of patriots, by an acrimonious and unremitting opposition to the court. This mark is by no means…

— Samuel Johnson

Reversal by a higher court is not proof that justice is thereby better done. There is no doubt that if there were a super-Supreme…

— Robert H. Jackson

We turn to Marx, therefore, not because he is infallible, but because he is inescapable.

— Robert Heilbroner

I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he…

— Scott Snyder

Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up…

— Sri Aurobindo

I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop… Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go,…

— Ellen Glasgow

Pleasure is by no means an infallible critical guide, but it is the least fallible.

— W. H. Auden