Quotable utterings of the famous (Part 4)

The following text is originally lifted from the trivia section of The Jakarta Post.

~Compiled from various sources~

• "Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives" - Abba Eban.
• "A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually" - Abba Eban.
• "To sit alone with my conscience will be judgement enough for me" - Charles William Stubbs.
• "Sanity is a madness put to good uses" - George Santayana.
• "Imitation is the sincerest form of television" - Fred Allen.
• "Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest" - Mark Twain.
• "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take" - Adlai Stevenson.
• "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research" - Wilson Mizner.
• "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers" - T.S. Eliot.
• "Criticism is prejudice made plausible" - Henry Louis Mencken.
• "It is better to be quotable than to be honest" - Tom Stoppard.
• "Opportunities multiply as they are seized" - Sun Tzu.
• "The best way to predict the future is to invent it" - Alan Kay.
• "Never mistake motion for action" - Ernest Hemingway.
• "Hell is paved with good Samaritans" - William Holden.
• "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time" - George Bernard Shaw.
• "Well done is better than well said" - Benjamin Franklin.
• "The average person thinks he isn't" - Father Larry Lorenzoni.
• "Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd. Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd" - William Congreve.
• "A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted" - Helen Rowland.
• "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century" - Lewis Perelman.
• "Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency" - Lewis Perelman.
• "Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required" - Sir Winston Churchill.
• "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till the other is ready" - Henry David Thoreau.
• "There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal" - Sigfried Hulzer.
• "Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done" - Carl Gauss while working, when informed that his wife is dying.
• "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty" - Sir Winston Churchill.
• "I think it would be a good idea" - Mahatma Gandhi when asked what he thought of Western civilisation.
• "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" - Edward Burke.
• "I'm not a member of any organised party, I'm a Democrat" - Will Rogers.
• "If stupidity got us into this mess, why can't it get us out?" - Will Rogers.
• "The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy" - Von Clausewitz.
• "Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity" - Irving Kristol.
• "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt" - Mark Twain.
• "A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood" - General George S. Patton.
• "After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one" - Cato the Elder aka. Marcus Porcius Cato.
• "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know" - Abraham Lincoln.
• "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something" - last words of Pancho Villa.
• "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins" - Oliver Wendell Holmes.
• "The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense" - Tom Clancy.
• "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog" - Mark Twain.
• "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot have both" - Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince.
• "Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame" - Benjamin Franklin.
• "The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep" - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live.
• "Half this game is 99% mental" - Yogi Berra.
• "There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole" - Bill Wulf.
• "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher" - Flannery O'Connor.
• "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire" - Sir Winston Churchill.
• "I criticise by creation - not by finding fault" - Cicero.
• "Love is friendship set on fire" - Jeremy Taylor.
• "God gave men both a penis and brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time" - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair.
• "My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate" - Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked what his current profession was.
• "Woman was God's second mistake" - Friedrich Nietzsche.
• "This isn't right, this isn't even wrong" - Wolfgang Pauli, upon reading a young physicist's paper.
• "For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the not-worth-knowing" - Henry Louis Mencken.