When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride,
He shouts to scare the monster, who will often turn aside.
But the she-bear thus accosted, rends the peasant tooth and nail
For the female of the species is deadlier than the male.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

--Rudyard Kipling

The men women marry,
And why they marry them, will always be
A marvel and a mystery to the world.

--H.W.Longfellow

Never do today what can be put off till tomorrow.

--Mathew Browne

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

--Neil Armstrong

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

--Napoleon

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.

--Winston Churchill

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

--Blaise Pascal

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

--Lord Acton

The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

What luck for the rulers that men do not think.

Strength lies not in defense but in attack.

Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

--Adolf Hitler

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

--Martin Luther King Jr

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.

-- Nikita Khruschev

Winning is not everything. It's the only thing.

--Vince Lombardi

Under capitalism man exploits man; under socialism the reverse is true.

--Polish Proverb

The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it.

--J. Robert Oppenheimer

The world is full of willing people; some wiling to work, the rest willing to let them.

--Robert Frost

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

--John Kenneth Galbraith

There is nothing permanent except change.

--Heraclitus

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

--Charles Caleb Colton

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

--Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean,
for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

--Henry B. Adams

It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.

--Alfred Adler

I was irrevocably bethrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilized music in the world.

--Sir Peter Ustinov

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.

--John F. Kennedy

A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

--Chester Nimitz

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

--Alex Hamilton

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women.

--Katherine Hepburn

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

--Harry S. Truman

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

--Ronald Reagan

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

--Bertrand Russel

If silence is golden, speech is Platinum. It spreads wisdom, dispels ignorance, ventilates grievances, stimulates curiosity, lightens the spirits and lessens the fundamental loneliness of the soul.

--Jan Struther

There is no more pleasant spectacle for an elderly gentleman than that of a young girl of the present day, so competent and so self-assured, who can run an office and play a hard game of tennis, who is intelligently concerned with public affairs and can appreciate the arts, and prepared to stand on her own feet, faces life with cool, shrewd and tolerant eyes.

--Somerset Maugham

It is quite strange. More than anything else, what typifies an average Indian is not so much the caste, creed or community, but the quixotic natures: a love of gossip, a relentless desire to probe into the workings of another's life, a passion for the private minuatae of the lives of all known and unknown persons, an inability to let things lie dormant and unexplored. Indeed, this collective gaze of communal inquisitiveness touches all- be it politicians, film stars, bureaucrats, writers or Mrs Mehta and her daughter next door.

Confidence, that elusive quality that cannot be bottled and bought, is as powerful and exhilarating as champagne when you have it, and as treacherous as hemlock if it flees.

--From The Hindu.

The overwhelming majority of those who came from the nations of the Old World to our American shores were not the laggards, not the timorous, not the failures. They were men and women who had the supreme courage to strike out for themselves, to abandon language and relatives, to start at the bottom, without money and without knowlegde of life in a very young civilization...They came to us speaking many tongues- but a single language, the universal language of human aspiration.

--Franklin Delano Roosevelt

On Pride:In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our national passions so hard to subdue as Pride. Disguise it, struggle to beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this autobiography; for even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be PROUD of my humility.

In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.

--Benjamin Franklin

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

--Sir Isaac Newton