Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.
Ted Turner

This City is what it is because our citizens are what they are.
Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.
Plato

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words "abortion" or "tax hikes" pass their lips.
Ann Coulter

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
Sigmund Freud

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
Sigmund Freud

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Stephen Leacock

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Stephen Leacock

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
Rodney Dangerfield

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
John Adams

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
John Adams

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.
Billy Graham

A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die.
Les Brown

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown

Just because Fate doesn't deal you the right cards, it doesn't mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.
Les Brown

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Les Brown

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Les Brown

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Thomas Paine

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da Vinci