"You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things." - Cleveland Amory

"I often wish . . . that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease." - Bliss Carman, attributed

"This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts." - Sir Winston Churchill

"Time dissipates to shining ether the solid angularity of facts." - RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Essays

"Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing." - THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY, letter (1860)

"Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful. . .
Get your facts first, and . . . then you can distort `em as much as you please."
- MARK TWAIN, quoted in Rudyard Kipling's From Sea to Sea