Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes, Love Quotes, Witty Quotes

It is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved? It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

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Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history ..... Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth

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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.

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Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

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Wagner’s music is better than it sounds.

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Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.

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The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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The covers of this book are too far apart.

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I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.

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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

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Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

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Human blunders usually do more to shape history than human wickedness.

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Howard Zinn was magical as a teacher. Witty, irreverent, and wise, he loved what he was teaching and clearly wanted his students to love it, also.

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