the best quotes ever

rosesarered - was it Churchill who said that?

I like quotes that show absolutely nothing has changed in reality:

Laws are like spider's webs: if some poor weak creature come up against them, it is caught; but a bigger one can break through and get away. Solon of Athens (640 – 561 BC)

Yes Hollydaze indeed! A certain Culture minister springs to mind eh?

He who is not curious is an enemy of knowledge

(sorry, I don't know who made that a well-known)

'All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!'
Dr. Seuss

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke

"When shows break up, what but oneself is sure?". Walt Whitman.

'For evil to flourish, all that it needs is for good men to do nothing'
[can't remember who said this, or even if I have remembered it correctly!]

Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to device.

Walter Scott

I meant deceive

On addressing his men before one of the Napoleonic wars battles;
'I don't know what effect they will have on the enemy, but by God, they frighten me!' [a non complimentary reflection on the troops, spoken by the Duke of Wellington.]

Not spoken TO the men by the way, but as an aside, to one of his aides.

I may abhor what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire.

Familiarity breeds contempt and children.

Mark Twain

'Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.'

Charlotte Whittond

'Some see the glass as half-empty, some see the glass as half-full. I see the glass as too big.'

George Carlin