"Don't ask who said it? Ask what they said."

-- Thomas Aquinas

#Wisdom Quotes #Culture Quotes #Said Quotes

“Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.”
“Yes, I did have to struggle very hard to get this [the vote on the Iraq war] through, but the reason I did it was because I thought it was the right thing to do. I didn't take this on myself... just because I thought, 'Let's give myself a really hard time for a couple of years!”
“Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.”
“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”

Source : George Jean Nathan (1972). “The World in Falseface”, p.21, Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
“Astronomy ... is of all others the science which seems to present to us the most striking instance of waste in nature.”
“It has been aptly said that all Egypt is but the facade of an immense sepulcher.”

Source : Amelia B. Edwards (2011). “Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers”, p.5, Cambridge University Press
“One of the glories and terrors of working in public is that you do see if your output means anything to anyone.”
“I'm the kind of person who always likes to be doing something.”

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