"No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes."

Gladstone, William E. on Failure
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"Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right."

Gladstone, William E. on Ethics
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"All the world over, I will back the masses against the classes."

Gladstone, William E. on Class
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"To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society."

Roosevelt, Theodore on Education
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"The right honorable gentlemen is indebted to his memory for his jokes and his imagination for his facts."

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley on Humor
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"There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get him off the thing he was educated in."

Rogers, Will on Experts
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. on Ability
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"Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel."

Walpole, Horace on Life and Living
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"Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot."

Chaplin, Charlie on Comedy and Comedians
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"I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color."

Malcolm X on Respectability
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"The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it."

Macleish, Archibald on America
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"America is a model of force and freedom and moderation -- with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people."

Byron, Lord on America
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"The ingrained idea that, because there is no king and they despise titles, the Americans are a free people is pathetically untrue. There is a perpetual interference with personal liberty over there that would not be tolerated in England for a week."

Asquith, Margot on Liberty
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"It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them."

James, Henry on America
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"Perhaps I am still very much of an American. That is to say, na?ve, optimistic, gullible. In the eyes of a European, what am I but an American to the core, an American who exposes his Americanism like a sore. Like it or not, I am a product of this land of plenty, a believer in superabundance, a believer in miracles."

Miller, Henry on America
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"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

Pope, Alexander on America
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"The English are predisposed to pride, the French to vanity."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on Nationalities and Nationalism
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"You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes."

Schirra Sr., Walter on Sons
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"Behind every successful man is a proud wife and a surprised mother-in-law."

Humphrey, Hubert H. on Mother-in-Laws
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"The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time."

Barrymore, John on Life and Living
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"Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life."

Craik, Dinah Mulock on Daughters
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"In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons."

Croesus on Fathers and Sons
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"Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience."

Waitley, Denis on Mistakes
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"We French found it and called it joie de vivre -- the joy of living."

Repound, Renee on Joy
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"Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that --one is sure to get into some mess before evening."

Keats, John on Pleasure
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"In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside."

Synge, J. M. on Sons
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"Irish Americans are no more Irish than Black Americans are Africans."

Geldof, Bob on Nationalities and Nationalism
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"An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards."

O'Malley, Austin on Nationalities and Nationalism
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"I like the English. They have the most rigid code of immorality in the world."

Bradbury, Malcolm on Nations
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"The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth."

Bradbury, Malcolm on Manners
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"The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt."

Chandler, Raymond on America
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"An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one."

Mikes, George on Order
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"If you hadnt entered the World War we would have made peace with Germany early in 1917. Had we made peace then there would have been no collapse in Russia followed by communism, no break-down in Italy followed by fascism, and Germany would not have signed the Versailles Treaty, which has enthroned nazi-ism in Germany. In other words, if America had stayed out of the war all of these isms wouldnt today be sweeping the Continent of Europe and breaking down parliamentary government, and if England had made peace early in 1917, it would have saved over 1,000,000 British, French, American, and other lives. "

Churchill, Winston on Uncategorised
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"Sticks and stones may break your bones when there's anger to impart. Spiteful words can hurt your feelings but silence breaks your heart. Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest."

Unknown, Source on Anger
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"No one can be as calculatedly rude as the British, which amazes Americans, who do not understand studied insult and can only offer abuse as a substitute."

Gallico, Paul on Insults
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"The only things one can admire at length are those one admires without knowing why."

Rostand, Jean on Admiration
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"Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood -- we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we."

Rostand, Jean on Prejudice
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"A man is not old as long as he is seeking something."

Rostand, Jean on Age and Aging
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"Prejudice is a great timesaver. It enables you to form opinions without bothering to get facts."

Unknown, Source on Prejudice
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"One can only give an unbiased opinion about things that do not interest one, which is no doubt the reason an unbiased opinion is always valueless. The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing."

Wilde, Oscar on Prejudice
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