Keep what you have; the known evil is best.
Titus Maccius Plautus

There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do and call it Hope.
Edward W. Howe

An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.
James Russell Lowell

I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time.
Jock Sturges

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?
George Whitefield

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
David Mamet

It has long been known for sure that the sight of tasty food makes a hungry man's mouth water; also lack of appetite has always been regarded as an undesirable phenomenon, from which one might conclude that appetite is essentially linked with the process of digestion.
Ivan Pavlov

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.
Avicenna

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
Buffalo Bill

Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which I am about to write as few men now living have known it.
Buffalo Bill

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.
Buffalo Bill

And I don't want to begin something, I don't want to write that first sentence until all the important connections in the novel are known to me. As if the story has already taken place, and it's my responsibility to put it in the right order to tell it to you.
John Irving

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
Calvin Trillin

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
Henry B. Adams

If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
George C. Marshall

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.
William Hazlitt

I am proud to be known to the world as the founder of the Illuminati.
Adam Weishaupt

He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.
William Tecumseh Sherman

I'd like to be known for more than being the guy in the big suit.
David Byrne

Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity.
Jean Cocteau