All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.
Oscar Wilde

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
Edgar Allan Poe

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.
Glenn Beck

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.
John Adams

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice and the general reason of mankind.
Jonathan Swift

I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
Rodney Dangerfield

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.
Karl Marx

Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source.
Leo Tolstoy

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.
Voltaire

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.
Jane Austen

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions.
Jane Austen

General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered serious international misconduct to manufacture a general war scare in an effort to achieve local political aims?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Rush Limbaugh

He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite, and flatterer, for Art and Science cannot exist but in minutely organized Particulars.
William Blake

Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
Julius Caesar