FamousQuotes140: 02/12/2012

The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. - T.S. Eliot

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. - George Washington

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. - Morihei Ueshiba

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. - Winston Churchill

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. - Simone Weil

No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. - George Orwell

We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. - George Orwell

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it. - Lao Tzu

Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble. - Benjamin Franklin

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. - Albert Camus

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. - Jimi Hendrix

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. - Napoleon Bonaparte

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