A clown's makeup and character, that's all he has to sell. He loves and believes in that character.
Emmett Kelly

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.
Ludwig Erhard

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes that he has got the biggest piece.
Paul Gauguin

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
Abba Eban

A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.
Thomas Fuller

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
Mort Sahl

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.
Thornton Wilder

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.
Edward Teller

A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing.
Victor Hugo

A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
William Graham Sumner

A happy home is one in which each spouse grants the possibility that the other may be right, though neither believes it.
Don Fraser

A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
Theodore White

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.
Henry A. Wallace

A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
Herodotus

A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true.
Demosthenes

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
Joseph Addison

A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.
Edvard Munch

A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Jeff Cooper

A teacher must believe in the value and interest of his subject as a doctor believes in health.
Gilbert Highet