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A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. Planck, Max
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man’s brow. Brower, Charles
A person over age 65 who drinks says that his doctor recommends it. Smith, Bob
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury. Mill, John Stuart
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. France, Anatole
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. Beecher, Henry Ward
A pious man is one who would be an atheist if the king were. La Bruyere, Jean
A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice. Bergamin, José
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it. Dumas, Alexandre (père)
A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. Churchill, Winston
A poem is never finished only abandoned Valery, Paul
A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking. Emerson, Ralph Waldo
