Wisdom Sayings

As soon as you stop wanting something, you get it.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

All reactionaries are paper tigers.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

The future depends on what you do today.

I guess I'm not the only one who heard their first good jazz in a whorehouse.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

To be the mother of a nation is a great thing.

The goal of socialism is communism.

I have found that when I want to send a message particularly far, I have to use the Italian language.

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.