If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces.
William Shakespeare

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
William Shakespeare

People teach their dogs to sit; it's a trick. I've been sitting my whole life, and a dog has never looked at me as though he thought I was tricky.
Mitch Hedberg

All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me.
Mitch Hedberg

Dad, I'm in some trouble. There's been an accident and you're going to hear all sorts of things about me from now on. Terrible things.
Edward Kennedy

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Henry David Thoreau

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Henry David Thoreau

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.
Henry David Thoreau

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.
Henry David Thoreau

I've always had a problem with the average macho man - they've always been a threat to me.
Kurt Cobain

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.
Bill Gates

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
Aristotle

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
Aristotle

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle

Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.
W. Clement Stone

All religions have been made by men.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.
Will Rogers

The 1928 Republican Convention opened with a prayer. If the Lord can see His way clear to bless the Republican Party the way it's been carrying on, then the rest of us ought to get it without even asking.
Will Rogers

An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
Will Rogers