I know not anything more pleasant, or more instructive, than to compare experience with expectation, or to register from time to time… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Our understanding of the thought of the past is liable to be the more adequate, the less the historian is convinced of… — Leo Strauss Copy Share Image
Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature. — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
An annual or frequent choice of Magistrates, who in a year, or in a few years, are again left upon a level… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
In the process of burning out these confusions, we discover enlightenment. If the process were otherwise, the awakened state of mind would… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may… — Mary Antin Copy Share Image
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Giant Wimbleweather burst into one of those not very intelligent laughs to which the nicer sort of Giants are so liable. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than a moving plane, ship or train. There… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You must, to get through life well, practice industry with economy, never create a debt for anything that is not absolutely necessary,… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
Weakness has its hidden resources, as well as strength. There is a degree of folly and meanness which we cannot calculate upon,… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Those who have more power are liable to sin more; no theorem in geometry is more certain than this. — Lord Acton Copy Share Image
One of the worst diseases to which the human creature is liable is its disease of thinking. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
It is worth remembering that our cities occupy important sites, and therefore some kind of settlement is liable to be there. — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
All scientific work is incomplete - whether it be observational or experimental. All scientific work is liable to be upset or modified… — Austin Bradford Hill Copy Share Image
We hold that the greatest right in the world is the right to be wrong, that in the exercise thereof people have… — William Randolph Hearst Copy Share Image
Paper money is liable to be abused, has been, is, and forever will be abused, in every country in which it is… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
When it comes to owning the seed for collecting royalties, the GMO companies say, 'it's mine.' But when it comes to contamination,… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is probably no one, however rigid his virtue, who is not liable to find himself, by the complexity of circumstances, living… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
![“He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad…” quote by Erwin Rommel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/000/erwin-rommel-13336_black_he-hitler-seemed-very-depressed-and-upse_2488046.jpg)
