It is in the nature of cats to do a certain amount of unescorted roaming. – Adlai Stevenson
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. – Adlai Stevenson
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. – Adlai Stevenson
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation. – Adlai Stevenson
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there, lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. – Mark Twain