A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. – Benjamin Franklin Category: great
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. – F. Scott Fitzgerald Category: great
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. – Thomas Carlyle Category: great
Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man — the biography of the man himself cannot be written. – Mark Twain, Autobiography, 1924 Category: Self
A man should look as if he has bought his clothes with intelligence, put them on with care and then forgotten all about them. – Hardy Amies Category: Fashion
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself; and how little I deserve it. – W. S. Gilbert Category: Inferiority
What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief. – Paul Ryan Category: Leadership
