Famous Quotes & Sayings

Conrad Aiken

The truth--a hideous spectacle!

Sydney J. Harris

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.

Thomas Jefferson

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong.

Mason Cooley

Disillusionment is not truth.

Mason Cooley

Errors are more numerous than truths, but fortunately too divided among themselves to take power.

Mason Cooley

Truth is a necessary phantom.

Mason Cooley

Birth dates and bathroom scales tell more truth than I want to know.

Margaret Oliphant

Somehow even a popular fallacy has an aspect of truth when it suits one's own case.

Michel de Montaigne

I have never known a greater miracle, or monster, than myself.

Nicole Krauss

No, what I felt was the torment of waiting, stuck between the end of one sentence and the beginning of the next which might or might not bring a hail storm, plane crash, poetic justice, or a miraculous reversal.

Mark Twain

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial.

Marian Wright Edelman

Justice is not cheap. Justice is not quick. It is not ever finally achieved.

Peter Sellers

Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

Pythagoras

Without Justice, no realm may prosper.

Joseph Brant

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.

Ralph Steadman

There is no truly global justice.

Rahul Gandhi

All the public systems – administration, justice, education and political are designed to keep people with knowledge out. Such a system promotes mediocrity.

I wish I would have a real tragic love affair and get so bummed out that I'd just quit my job and become a bum for a few years, because I was thinking about doing that anyway.

Marilyn Monroe

Wouldn't it be nice to be like men, just getting notches in your belt, having affairs with the most atttractive men . . . and not getting emotionally involved.