Matt's Flashcard Set

Voltaire (18)

(After being asked to renounce the Devil on his deathbed). Now, Now my good man, this is no time to be making enemies.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (32)

(The Social Contract) - Man was born free and he is everywhere in chains.

Plato (3)

Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.

Winston Churchill (75)

You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.

Oscar Wilde (86)

You can never be overdressed or over educated.

Rahm Emanuel (96)

You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.

Epictetus (53)

Your will needn't be affected by an incident unless you let it. Remember this with everything that happens to you.

Frank Sinatra (67)

Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Oscar Wilde (56)

Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.

Ernest Hemingway (38)

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Oscar Wilde (39)

Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much.

Voltaire (20)

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

Marcus Aurelius (30)

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (37)

For every minute you are angry you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (26)

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

Mark Twain (52)

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain (51)

Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company.

Serenity Prayer (15)

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

Epictetus (22)

Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle; Some things are within our control and some things are not.

Winston Churchill (71)

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.

Mark Twain (41)

History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.

Winston Churchill (76)

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Ronald Reagan (61)

How do you tell a Communist? Well its someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? Its someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Margaret Thatcher (11)

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

Winston Churchill (85)

I am prepared to meet my maker. Whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Oscar Wilde (60)

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Oscar Wilde (88)

I can resist anything except temptation.

Voltaire (25)

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

Victor Hugo (31)

I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses.

Benjamin Franklin (100)

I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night.

Winston Churchill (73)

I have a taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Queen Elizabeth I (5)

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

Thomas Jefferson (46)

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Thomas Jefferson (36)

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Winston Churchill (74)

I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

Friedrich Nietzsche (28)

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.

Ronald Reagan (83)

I've noticed that everyone for abortion has already been born.

Mark Twain (45)

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Abigail Van Buren (91)

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them and half as much money.

Robert Frost (64)

In 3 little words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

Aristotle (95)

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

Thomas Jefferson (54)

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Winston Churchill (69)

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

Dalai Lama (6)

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

Ben Franklin (16)

In this world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin (99)

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.

Jean Jacques Rousseau (27)

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Winston Churchill (65)

Lady Astor: Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee. Winston Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it.

Charles "Chuck" Swindoll (1)

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

Winston Churchill (78)

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. (Churchill was referring to the efforts of the Royal Air Force who were, at the time, fighting the Battle of Britain).

Oscar Wilde (87)

No good deed goes unpunished.

Thomas Jefferson (48)

Nothing gives one person so much an advantage over one person as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Oscar Wilde (57)

Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Soren Kirkegaard (29)

People understand me so little that they do not understand when I complain of being misunderstood.

Ronald Reagan (62)

Republicans believe that every day is the Fourth of July, but the democrats believe every day is April 15th.

Winston Churchill (72)

Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.

Winston Churchill (4)

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

Mark Twain (43)

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Winston Churchill (66)

Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.

Winston Churchill (82)

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

Mahatma Ghandi (8)

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Jimmy Johnson (14)

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.

Winston Churchill (89)

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessing; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Ronald Reagan (81)

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

George Patton (33)

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.

Ayn Rand (55)

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Winston Churchill (84)

The price of greatness is responsibility.

Margaret Thatcher (10)

The problem with socialism is you eventually run out of other people's money.

Ayn Rand (21)

The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.

Thomas Jefferson (50)

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

Mark Twain (93)

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

Oscar Wilde (58)

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Epictetus (7)

Things and people are not what we wish them to be, nor what they seem to be. They are what they are.

Voltaire (19)

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.

Thomas Jefferson (47)

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

George Washington (34)

To be prepared for war is on the most effective means of preserving peace.

Winston Churchill (70)

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Winston Churchill (23)

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Plato (92)

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Epictetus (90)

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

Mark Twain (44)

What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin.

Epictetus (9)

When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it.

Winston Churchill (79)

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

Oscar Wilde (59)

A good friend will always stab you from the front.

Jonathan Swift (97)

Blessed is he who expects nothing for he shall never be disappointed.

Winston Churchill (24)

Churchill: Madam, would you sleep with me for 5 million pounds? Socialite: My goodness, Mr. Churchill... Well, I suppose... we would have to discuss terms, of course. Churchill: Would you sleep with me for 5 pounds? Socialite: Mr. Churchill, what kind of woman do you think I am? Churchill: Madam, we've already established that. Now we are haggling about the price.

Epictetus (49)

Don't be concerned with other people's impressions of you. Stick with your purpose.

Benjamin Franklin (98)

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Winston Churchill (77)

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

Thomas Jefferson (35)

It does me no injury for my neighbors to say there are twenty Gods or no God.

Winston Churchill (68)

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Mark Twain (42)

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Voltaire (17)

It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one.

Aristotle (94)

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Winston Churchill (80)

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

Groucho Marx (13)

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Oscar Wilde (63)

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Abraham Maslow (40)

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

Robert Frost (2)

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Voltaire (12)

Use, do not abuse ... neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.