“Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.”

Plagiarists, at least, have the merit of preservation.

Grief is the agony of an instant; the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

A precedent embalms a principle.

There is no gambling like politics.

Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

We moralize among ruins.

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.

Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Desperation can make a person do surprising things.

Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

And nothing fuels a good flirtation Like need and anger and desperation No, the moth don’t care if the flame is real.

There’s a sense of desperation in Afghanistan because of the lack of funding and the fact that the U.S. only has a one-track military strategy. It doesn’t have an economic and political game plan.

The label sort of capitalized on that desperation and that competition.

The legacy of the embargo will be Cuba’s poverty and desperation. When the island comes out of it, they’ll be even more desperate than they are now about the things they think they’ve missed.

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.