Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.
-Gore Vidal
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
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
-Lord Acton
A solution shall not another problem create.
-Tom Burtonwood
Never mistake motion for action.
-Ernest Hemingway
To regard anyone except yourself as responsible for your judgement is to be a slave, not a free man, It is from this fact that the liberal arts acquire their name
-Mortimer Adler