An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
—Winston Churchill
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
—Arnold Toynbee
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
—Eugene McCarthy
In the Fiji islands, it appears, cannibalism is now familiar. They eat their own wives and children. We only devour widows' houses, and great merchants outwit and absorb the substance of small ones, and every man feeds on his neighbor's labor if he can. It is a milder form of cannibalism.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
—Christopher Hampton
It's a little like wrestling a gorilla. You don't quit when you're tired; you quit when the gorilla is tired.
—Robert Strauss
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
—E. W. Dijkstra
Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers.
—Robert Green Ingersoll