Who Quotes

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap heap.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

I really love idiot, enlightened characters - these characters who fail to engage with the drama of their immediate circumstances; they fail to be reactive and enrolled by drama as it happens around them.

I'm happy to be alive, I'm happy to be who I am.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.

George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.

I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

He who is brave is free.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore.