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“All the greatest things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honour; duty; mercy; hope.”

Simple Freedom Honour Mercy
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Mark Mind Educate Entertain
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Man is by nature a political animal.
Man Nature Political Animal
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Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

Creats Image Regard Mode
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Teenagers these days are out of control. They eat like pigs, they are disrespectful of adults, they interrupt and contradict their parents, and they terrorize their teachers.

Teenager Control Interrupt Parent
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“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.”

Politics Ability Explain Happen
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“Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.”

Plans Spacious Energy Save
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The difference between a learned man and an ignorant one is the same as that between a living man and a corpse.

Between Ignorant Living Corpse
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All I can say is that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me
Alcohol Take Out Say
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Differ Much Dead Living
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The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar.

Master Metaphor Genius Perception
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Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions.
Man Himself Accept Negative
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“The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.”

Greatest Lesson Life Right
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“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”

Malice Truth Attack Ignorance
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“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, it’s also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Courage Stand Speak Listen
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“There is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions.”

Certainty Expectation Principle War
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Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Journey Discourage Climb Progress
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If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Regulation Destroy Respect Law
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The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it.
Proof Know Able Teach
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“In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

Course Confess Life Always
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The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Root Bitter Fruit Sweet
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“In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.”

Precious Truth Wartime Should
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The society that loses its grip on the past is in danger, for it produces men who know nothing but the present, and who are not aware that life had been, and could be, different from what it is.

Grip Danger Present Aware
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“There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.”

Difficult Climbing Leaning Wall
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The true and the approximately true are apprehended by the same faculty; it may also be noted that men have a sufficient natural instinct for what is true, and usually do arrive at the truth. Hence the man who makes a good guess at truth is likely to make a good guess at probabilities.

Approximate Apprehend Sufficient Guess
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The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

Ultimate Life Power Survival
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This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Reason Mother Devote Children
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

Children Honor Produce Educate
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Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result.
Nothing Life Shot Result
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To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.

Conscious Perceive Own Existence
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“No crime is so great as daring to excel.”

Daring Excel Crime Great
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“I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.”

Inspiration Renewed Vitality Atlantic
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The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Successful People Almost Everything
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Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

Price Pay Value Get
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It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.

Build Reputation Think Different
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It’s far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.

Better Wonderful Fair Price
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I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Look Jump Foot Bars
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Not doing what we love in the name of greed is the very poor management of our lives.

Love Greed Poor Management
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Risk comes from not knowing what you’re doing.
Risk Come What Know
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You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

Scientist Game Invest Beat
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Watch this pickpocket! “A hyperactive stock market is the pickpocket of enterprise.

Stock Market Hyperactive Enterprise
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

Fearful Greed Simple Attempt
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It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction.

Associate Behave People Direction
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The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.

Stock Market Money Patience
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The Greatest Enemies of Equity Investor are Expenses and Emotions.
Enemy Equity Investor Great
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No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can’t produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Great Talent Effort Woman
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Smart doesn't always equal rational. To be a successful investor you must divorce yourself from the fears and greed of the people around you, although it is almost impossible.

Smart Investor Greed People
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

Live Deed Breath Figure
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We make war that we may live in peace.
Make War May Peace
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We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

Praise Person Moment Length
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