John F. Kennedy

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

When power leads man towards arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.


George Bernard Shaw

He who has never hoped can never despair.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him crazy.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

The liars punishment is, not in the least that he cannot be believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

I like a state of continuing becoming with a goal in front and not behind.

I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them; that’s the essence of inhumanity.

To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynism by those who have not got it.


Oscar Wilde

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

We all lie in the gutter, but some of us look up to the stars.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the society.

Men always want to be a woman’s first love. Women like to be a man’s last romance.

Woman begins by resisting a man’s advances and ends by blocking his retreat.


Woody Allen

It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.


Charlie Chaplin

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.


Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.


Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

The Americans will always do the right thing… after they’ve exhausted all the alternatives.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.


Albert Einstein

Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one’s living at it.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.


Benjamin Franclin

Well done is better than well said.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

They that can give up an essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.


Thomas Jefferson

I have not observed the men’s honesty to increase with their riches.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small degree of it.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Most virtues when carried upon certain bounds degenerate into vices.

Men are disposed to live honestly if the means of doing so are open to them.

Everyone who asks justice should do justice.

Moral duties are as obligatory on nations as on individuals.



Jorge Santayana

Those who don’t learn from the mistakes of history are doomed to repeat them.


Franclin Delano Roosevelt

The only thing to fear is fear itself.

More than an end of war we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.