There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
Sun Tzu

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Oscar Wilde

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
Edgar Allan Poe

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe

Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him.
Ernest Hemingway

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
Jimi Hendrix

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
Jimi Hendrix

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams

You see people who have been very heavy in their life who have taken that body, trimmed it down, firmed it up through discipline, exercise and being able to say no. Eating properly, that all comes into it.
Mike Ditka

I've been into the habit of freezing white grapes and using them as a snack. Instead of eating peanuts or popcorn or something like that or pretzels, I just eat the white grapes.
Mike Ditka

War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
Ted Turner

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.
Eleanor Roosevelt

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
Henry Ford

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
Dale Carnegie

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
Dale Carnegie

My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.
Martin Luther

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want?"
Sigmund Freud

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.
Sigmund Freud

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund Freud

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund Freud