No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth. (Francis Bacon, Of Truth)

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more manÕs nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. (Francis Bacon, Of Revenge)

A little philosophy inclineth manÕs mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth menÕs minds about to religion. (Francis Bacon, Of Atheism)

Knowledge is power. (Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est) (Francis Bacon, Meditationes Sacrae. De Haeresibus.)

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Francis Bacon

A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.
Francis Bacon

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Francis Bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

Acorns were good until bread was found.
Francis Bacon

All rising to great place is by a winding stair.
Francis Bacon

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
Francis Bacon

As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon

Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
Francis Bacon

Books will speak plain when counsellors blanch.
Francis Bacon

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Francis Bacon

By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis Bacon

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.
Francis Bacon

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Francis Bacon

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Francis Bacon

Cure the disease and kill the patient.
Francis Bacon

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon

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

Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
Francis Bacon

Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon

Friends are thieves of time.
Francis Bacon

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon

God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis Bacon

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis Bacon

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
Francis Bacon

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis Bacon

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Francis Bacon

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Francis Bacon

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Francis Bacon

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon

If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
Francis Bacon

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge, of Wisdom heaven-born, remain sweet running waters, thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.
Francis Bacon

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
Francis Bacon

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis Bacon

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
Francis Bacon

It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon

It was prettily devised of Aesop, "The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! "
Francis Bacon

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Francis Bacon

Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Francis Bacon

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon

Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Francis Bacon

Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Francis Bacon

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Francis Bacon

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
Francis Bacon

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
Francis Bacon

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon

Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
Francis Bacon

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Francis Bacon

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Francis Bacon

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
Francis Bacon

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Francis Bacon

Oh! death will find me long before I tire of watching you.
Francis Bacon

Opportunity makes a thief.
Francis Bacon

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
Francis Bacon

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
Francis Bacon

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon

Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
Francis Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Francis Bacon

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
Francis Bacon

Science is but an image of the truth.
Francis Bacon

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
Francis Bacon

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

Silence is the virtue of fools.
Francis Bacon

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
Francis Bacon

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
Francis Bacon

Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
Francis Bacon

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors.
Francis Bacon

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Francis Bacon

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
Francis Bacon

The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
Francis Bacon

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Francis Bacon

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Francis Bacon

The place of justice is a hallowed place.
Francis Bacon

The remedy is worse than the disease.
Francis Bacon

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
Francis Bacon

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon

The wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon

The worst men often give the best advice.
Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
Francis Bacon

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.
Francis Bacon

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
Francis Bacon

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Francis Bacon

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
Francis Bacon

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

This communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects; for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.
Francis Bacon

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon

Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.
Francis Bacon

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.
Francis Bacon

Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
Francis Bacon

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
Francis Bacon

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
Francis Bacon

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
Francis Bacon

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon

With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
Francis Bacon

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.
Francis Bacon

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
Francis Bacon

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon

Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries.
Richard Wagner

Curiously enough, our historical memory of the splendour of the German name dates from a period that was so harmful to the German character, namely, the period when the Germans ruled over non-German (ausserdeutsche) peoples.
Richard Wagner

Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.
Richard Wagner

I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.
Richard Wagner

I am fond of them, of the inferior beings of the abyss, of those who are full of longing.
Richard Wagner

I hate this fast growing tendency to chain men to machines in big factories and deprive them of all joy in their efforts - the plan will lead to cheap men and cheap products.
Richard Wagner

I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.
Richard Wagner

I write music with an exclamation point!
Richard Wagner

Imagination creates reality.
Richard Wagner

Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner

One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.
Richard Wagner

The birth of the new German spirit brought with it the rebirth of the German people: the German War of Liberation of 1813, 1814 and 1815 suddenly familiarised us with this people.
Richard Wagner

The word "deutsch" is also found in the verb "deuten" (to make plain): thus "deutsch" is what is plain to us, the familiar, the wonted, that which was inherited from our fathers and springs from our very own soil.
Richard Wagner

Whatever my passions demand of me, I become for the time being - musician, poet, director, author, lecturer or anything else.
Richard Wagner

ISTP Quotes

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can. Julius Caesar

I came, I saw, I conquered. Julius Caesar

I had rather be first in a village than second at Rome. Julius Caesar

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. Julius Caesar

In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. Julius Caesar

It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. Julius Caesar

It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. Julius Caesar

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true. Julius Caesar

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also. Julius Caesar

Which death is preferably to every other? "The unexpected". Julius Caesar

Every new time will give its law. Maxim Gorky

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is. Maxim Gorky

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere. Maxim Gorky

There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them. Maxim Gorky

When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery. Maxim Gorky

Action is the foundational key to all success. Pablo Picasso

An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought. Pablo Picasso

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. Pablo Picasso

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso

Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions. Pablo Picasso

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create. Pablo Picasso

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction. Pablo Picasso

Everything you can imagine is real. Pablo Picasso

He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law. Pablo Picasso

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.
Pablo Picasso

I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.
Pablo Picasso

I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Pablo Picasso

It means nothing to me. I have no opinion about it, and I don't care.
Pablo Picasso

It takes a long time to become young.
Pablo Picasso

My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
Pablo Picasso

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
Pablo Picasso

One must act in painting as in life, directly.
Pablo Picasso

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Pablo Picasso

Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.
Pablo Picasso

The hidden harmony is better than the obvious.
Pablo Picasso

The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face.
Pablo Picasso

What is a face, really? Its own photo? Its make-up? Or is it a face as painted by such or such painter? That which is in front? Inside? Behind? And the rest? Doesn't everyone look at himself in his own particular way? Deformations simply do not exist.
Pablo Picasso

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.
Pablo Picasso

Youth has no age.
Pablo Picasso

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
William Faulkner

Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.
William Faulkner

Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
William Faulkner

I believe that man will not merely endure. He will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance.
William Faulkner

I decline to accept the end of man.
William Faulkner

I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you.
William Faulkner

I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
William Faulkner

I'm inclined to think that a military background wouldn't hurt anyone.
William Faulkner

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies.
William Faulkner

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.
William Faulkner

It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work.
William Faulkner

Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
William Faulkner

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner

Maybe the only thing worse than having to give gratitude constantly is having to accept it.
William Faulkner

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.
William Faulkner

Others have done it before me. I can, too.
William Faulkner

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner

Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
William Faulkner

The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
William Faulkner

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner

The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.
William Faulkner

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
William Faulkner

The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past.
William Faulkner

There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.
William Faulkner

This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
William Faulkner

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.
William Faulkner

Before this time to-morrow I shall have gained a peerage, or Westminister Abbey.
Horatio Nelson

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
Horatio Nelson

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.
Horatio Nelson

England expects that every man will do his duty.
Horatio Nelson

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.
Horatio Nelson

Firstly you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own regarding their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly you must hate a Frenchman as you hate the devil.
Horatio Nelson

Gentlemen, when the enemy is committed to a mistake we must not interrupt him too soon.
Horatio Nelson

I cannot command winds and weather.
Horatio Nelson

I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.
Horatio Nelson

I could not tread these perilous paths in safety, if I did not keep a saving sense of humor.
Horatio Nelson

I have always been a quarter of an hour before my time and it has made a man of me.
Horatio Nelson


If a man consults whether he is to fight, when he has the power in his own hands, it is certain that his opinion is against fighting.
Horatio Nelson

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.
Horatio Nelson

In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.
Horatio Nelson

It is warm work; and this day may be the last to any of us at a moment. But mark you! I would not be elsewhere for thousands. - at the Battle of Copenhagen.
Horatio Nelson

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.
Horatio Nelson

My character and good name are in my own keeping. Life with disgrace is dreadful. A glorious death is to be envied.
Horatio Nelson

My greatest happiness is to serve my gracious King and Country and I am envious only of glory; for if it be a sin to covet glory I am the most offending soul alive.
Horatio Nelson

Never break the neutrality of a port or place, but never consider as neutral any place from whence an attack is allowed to be made.
Horatio Nelson

No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.
Horatio Nelson

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.
Horatio Nelson

Our country will, I believe, sooner forgive an officer for attacking an enemy than for letting it alone.
Horatio Nelson

Recollect that you must be a seaman to be an officer and also that you cannot be a good officer without being a gentleman.
Horatio Nelson

The bravest man feels an anxiety 'circa praecordia' as he enters the battle, but he dreads disgrace more.
Horatio Nelson

The business of the English commander-in-chief being first to bring an enemy fleet to battle on the most advantageous terms to himself, (I mean that of laying his ships close on board the enemy, as expeditiously as possible); and secondly to continue them there until the business is decided.
Horatio Nelson

The Neapolitan officers did not lose much honour, for God knows they had not much to lose - but they lost all they had.
Horatio Nelson

Time is everything; five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat.
Horatio Nelson

All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the other side of the hill'.
Duke of Wellington

An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
Duke of Wellington

As Lord Chesterfield said of the generals of his day, 'I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.'
Duke of Wellington

I used to say of Napoleon that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
Duke of Wellington

Next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained.
Duke of Wellington

Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth.
Duke of Wellington

Publish and be dammed.
Duke of Wellington

Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
Erwin Rommel

But courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity, or, if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility.
Erwin Rommel

Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning.
Erwin Rommel

In a man-to-man fight, the winner is he who has one more round in his magazine.
Erwin Rommel

The future battle on the ground will be preceded by battle in the air. This will determine which of the contestants has to suffer operational and tactical disadvantages and be forced throughout the battle into adoption compromise solutions.
Erwin Rommel

Air power is indivisible. If you split it up into compartments, you merely pull it to pieces and destroy its greatest asset, its flexibility.
Bernard Law Montgomery

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
Bernard Law Montgomery

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.
Bernard Law Montgomery

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.
Bernard Law Montgomery

I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it.
Bernard Law Montgomery

If we lose the war in the air we lose the war and we lose it quickly.
Bernard Law Montgomery

Leadership is the capacity and will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.
Bernard Law Montgomery

God makes me play well. That is why I always make the sign of a cross when I walk out on to the pitch. I feel I would be betraying him if I didn't.
Diego Maradona

I felt like Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Diego Maradona

I worked hard all my life for this. Those who say I don't deserve anything, that it all came easy, can kiss my arse.
Diego Maradona

The problem is that they are all stars at Madrid. You need someone to carry the water to the well.
Diego Maradona

“I don't think it's the best moment to join the team. I want to make it clear that I don't want to get in anyone's way.”
Diego Maradona quotes

“He is not having any problems coping and he carries the ball on his instep with the only problem being the speed he is going. He feels the ball and that is the difference from the rest.”
Diego Maradona quotes

“You are an example for him because you are a conqueror.”
Diego Maradona quotes

“To those of you who have cheered on my goals, I thank you from the bottom of my heart.”
Diego Maradona quotes

“I was waiting for my teammates to embrace me and no one came, ... I told them, 'Come hug me or the referee isn't going to allow it.'”
Diego Maradona quotes

“the Lord helps those who help themselves.”
Diego Maradona quotes

“Menotti didn't make a mistake because he won the World Cup. You can't criticize that.”
Diego Maradona quotes

All my life through, the new sights of Nature made me rejoice like a child.
Marie Curie

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
Marie Curie

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
Marie Curie

I was taught that the way of progress I neither swift nor easy.
Marie Curie

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Marie Curie

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
Marie Curie

I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 96% how I react to it.
Scipio Africanus

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.
Scipio Africanus

It is the part of a fool to say, I should not have thought.
Scipio Africanus

All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Mao Tse-Tung

Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Tse-Tung

Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.
Mao Tse-Tung

In waking a tiger, use a long stick.
Mao Tse-Tung

Khrushchev should get a one-ton medal.
Mao Tse-Tung

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
Mao Tse-Tung

Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
Mao Tse-Tung

Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
Mao Tse-Tung

People like me sound like a lot of big cannons.
Mao Tse-Tung

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.
Mao Tse-Tung

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung

Revolution is not a dinner party, not an essay, nor a painting, nor a piece of embroidery; it cannot be advanced softly, gradually, carefully, considerately, respectfully, politely, plainly and modestly.
Mao Tse-Tung

Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.
Mao Tse-Tung

Take the ideas of the masses (scattered and unsystematic ideas) and concentrate them (through study turn them into concentrated and systematic ideas), then go to the masses and propagate and explain these ideas until the masses embrace them as their own.
Mao Tse-Tung

The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.
Mao Tse-Tung

The guerrilla must move amongst the people as a fish swims in the sea.
Mao Tse-Tung

We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.
Mao Tse-Tung

When the enemy advances, withdraw; when he stops, harass; when he tires, strike; when he retreats, pursue.
Mao Tse-Tung

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
Jack Nicholson

I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
Jack Nicholson

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.
Jack Nicholson

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.
Jack Nicholson

Once you've been really 'bad' in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness you develop.
Jack Nicholson

Our generation are the new old. I remember what someone of 60 looked like when I was a kid. They didn't look like me.
Jack Nicholson

There's so much darn porn out there, I never got out of the house.
Jack Nicholson
On why he was giving up using the internet