Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.
Vince Lombardi

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
Mark Twain

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Mark Twain

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain

Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Mark Twain

I make it a rule never to smoke while I'm sleeping.
Mark Twain

People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.
Abraham Lincoln

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.
Abraham Lincoln

I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.
Abraham Lincoln

How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

If you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
Abraham Lincoln

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.
Abraham Lincoln

He who molds the public sentiment... makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.
Abraham Lincoln

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.
Martin Luther King, Jr.