Selected Quotes

"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours. "

"Nine men in ten are would be suicides. "

"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself. "

"When you're finished changing, you're finished. "

"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. "

"Who had deceived thee so often as thyself? "

"Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. "

"If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. "

"He that can have patience can have what he will. "

"Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead "

"For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise. "

"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong. "

"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously. "

"‘It is said that a lady once admiringly asked Zukertort how many moves he could see ahead, and that he replied, “Madam, if the position is sufficiently simple, and I look a long time, I can sometimes see ‘one’ move ahead.”’ "

"I only think one move ahead, but it is the right one "

"Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you. "

"Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical. "

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it. "

"It’s déjà vu all over again. "

"We made too many wrong mistakes. "

"If you don’t know where you’re going, you might wind up someplace else. "

"It gets late early out here. "

"I always thought that record would stand until it was broken. "

"Even Napoleon had his Watergate. "

"Pair up in threes. "