"Oh, Mr. President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality."
Philander C. Knox(05/06/1853 – 10/12/1921)
US senator (PA) , on the acquisition of the Panama Canal
"Oh, Mr. President, do not let so great an achievement suffer from any taint of legality."
Philander C. Knox
"I have found little that is good about human beings. In my experience, most of them are trash."
Sigmund Freud
"We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us."
Rabindranath Tagore
"Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk."
Henry David Thoreau 
"To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse."
Rudolph Valentino
"We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning."
Bret Harte
"When you know what you're doing you can do what you want."
Moshe Feldenkrais
"I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could."
Orson Welles
"Now we can cross the shifting sands"
L. Frank Baum
"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past."
Maurice Maeterlinck
"The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and evil with activity."
Dr. Maria Montessori
"Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war."
Tony Blair
"Basically, we put our songs together in very much the same way the guys in Metallica do."
John Flansburgh
"I was too busy breaking up Tom and Nicole's marriage."
George Clooney
"Most women set out to change a man, and when they have changed him they do not like him."
Marlene Dietrich
"It's not hard to tell we was poor—when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline."
George Lindsey
