Edward Gibbon Famous Quotes
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind."
"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true by the philosopher, as equally false and by the magistrate, as equally useful."
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
"We improve ourselves by victories over ourself. There must be contests, and you must win."
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Edward Gibbon Quotations
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"The less their ability, the more their conceit."
Ahad HaAm
"If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I am too much of a skeptic to deny the possibility of anything.
Thomas Huxley
"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly."
William Shakespeare
"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
John Kenneth Galbraith
"The trouble was, all people saw on television were a few of my outspoken supporters out front and they came away thinking that was me."
George Stanley McGovern
"When a thing is done, advice comes too late."
Romanian Proverb
"She wanted something to happen - something, anything she did not know what."
Kate Chopin
"Asking 'Who ought to be the boss' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tennor in the quartet' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."
Henry Ford