Strange & Unusual Sayings

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

All warfare is based on deception.

His ears made him look like a taxicab with both doors open.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin; the Communists are a disease of the heart.

I am a strange compound of weakness and resolution! All my feelings are on the tortured rack; but I will not be a fool, if I can help it.

I hate the word 'facts.' I like the word 'truth.'

We are wont to imagine that it would be a pleasant pastime to be a potato and grow in the dark, but it is not so.

The state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.

I am not afraid that they will find bad governments, but that they will find governments that are not interested in the well-being of the people.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as truth is of systems of thought.

If a man is right, he has no reason to fear the judgment of others. If he is wrong, he has no reason to wish that judgment withheld.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

To read too many books is harmful.

I was often so tormented by unanswerable questions that I would put my head down on the table and cry.

A person does not act upon the world, the world acts upon him.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

I am looking for a man.

The greatest evil that can befall men is that they should consider themselves as perfect.