Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
-Gore Vidal
Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.
-Paul Valéry
Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts
-Richard Feynman
Liberty consists in the division of power. Absolutism, in concentration of power.
-Lord Acton
When there is no news, we will give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.
-David Brinkley
If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh.
-Paul Valéry
A man may take to drink because he feels himself a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
-George Orwell
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
-Lord Acton
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
-Lord Acton
If you are going to permit Cesar Augustus you have to be ready for Caligula.
-Max Brooks