Ursus Wehrli Quotes
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Elections have consequences, and at the end of the day, I won. So I think on that one I trump you.
Barack Obama -
Guantanamo will be closed no later than one year from now.
Barack Obama -
Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.
Oscar Wilde -
The way I run my business seems to be easier than the way I run my life.
Donald Trump -
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain -
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
Mark Twain
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If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.
Mark Twain -
Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
Mark Twain -
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Mark Twain -
Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.
Mark Twain -
The lack of money is the root of all evil.
Mark Twain -
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
Mark Twain
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The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
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Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Mark Twain -
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
Mark Twain -
The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
Mark Twain -
There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
Mark Twain -
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
Mark Twain
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If you want your children to be smart, tell them stories. If you want them to be really smart, tell them more stories. If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them even more stories.
Albert Einstein -
I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
Lee Iacocca -
Wherefore also these Kinds [elements] occupied different places even before the universe was organised and generated out of them. Before that time, in truth, all these were in a state devoid of reason or measure, but when the work of setting in order this Universe was being undertaken, fire and water and earth and air, although possessing some traces of their known nature, were yet disposed as everything is likely to be in the absence of God; and inasmuch as this was then their natural condition, God began by first marking them out into shapes by means of forms and numbers.
Plato -
You never know a line is crooked unless you have a straight one to put next to it.
Socrates -
No wisdom that she may gain by experience and reflection hereafter, will compensate the loss of her present hilarity.
William Cowper -
We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
Ursus Wehrli