Wisdom Sayings
231 sayings found from the Modern era from 231 authors
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With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon.
An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
No doubt I shall emerge from it all a different man, but quite who I've not found out.
A bad plan that is well executed will yield much better results than a good plan that is poorly executed.
Men, I am not ordering you to attack. I am ordering you to die.
How depressing it has been, Even within the palace.
Old age is the most unexpected of all things that can happen to a man.
I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary figure, Jesus Christ.
Silence is argument carried out by other means.
You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.
There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.
We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.
I am the father of Uganda, and a father must be strict.
You must sacrifice every thought, every ideology for the good of the nation and for the serenity of our fatherhood.
That interview must have done much good. The English people do not know how badly China is governed.
The United States is also a one-party state but, with typical American extravagance, they have two of them.
A minimum of comfort is necessary for the practice of virtue.
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
I owe the public nothing.
I have been driven to the wall by these men, and I mean to have my revenge.