Wisdom Sayings

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Solutions are not the answer.

My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

I am not an angel, and I am not a saint, and I am not a prophet; but I am a man, and I am a man of action.

I would rather lose in a cause that will ultimately triumph than to triumph in a cause that will ultimately fail.

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

It is better to live one day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep.

Without anxiety and illness I should have been like a ship without a rudder.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

What is easiest is best in calculation.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain.

America is the Great Satan, the wounded snake.

Without Jerusalem, there will be no peace.

It is not enough to be a good Jew; you must be a good human being.

I would rather live a short life of glory than a long one of obscurity.

I must tell you that I was never a beautiful woman. But I am a very good cook.

It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.

I would rather be first in a small village in Gaul than second in Rome.