Francis Bacon

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity does best discover vice, but adversity does best discover virtue.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Truth is a naked and open daylight.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

One of they key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace. Good people don’t go into government.

The female brain matures at maybe eighteen or so. The male brain doesn’t mature about until mid-twenties. In fact in some countries like Canada they’re thinking of treating young men in their early twenties as juveniles, because that’s basically what they are.

The more you can increase fear of drugs, crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all of the people.

Let’s not talk about Communism. Communism was just an idea, just pie in the sky.

Growing up in the place I did I never was aware of any other option but to question everything.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

It’s been fascinating – and exhilarating – watching this movement mushroom over the last few weeks, this campaign is about spreading a message of hope and change based on the central choice – five years or more of continued austerity, or a plan for investment and growth that stands up for the majority.

If people don’t like Marxism, they should blame the British Museum.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I’d been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

The option preferred by the privileged is for the fate of everyone else to be in the hands of insurance company executives whose goal, as Milton Friedman can explain, is to ensure maximum profit and market share: meaning the worst possible health care.

We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.

I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

We, in Syria, our point of view stems from our experience.