Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.
John Dewey

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. Mencken

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. Mencken

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. Mencken

Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.
Diane von Furstenberg

I never played much golf as a kid. I caddied quite a bit but never got serious into golf until about age 15.
Lee Trevino

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Charles M. Schulz

Michael Jackson was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It caused quite a controversy, because his nose isn't eligible for another fifteen years.
Conan O'Brien

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
Dylan Thomas

McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
Jon Stewart

I think I have something tonight that's not quite correct for evening wear. Blue suede shoes.
Elvis Presley

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.
Germaine Greer

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.
Susan Sontag

I sometimes got distracted easily and allowed my mind to wander when I needed to be focused. It's quite subtle, really, and just being aware of it helps.
Payne Stewart

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.
Jimmy Carter

It's quite nice to see that I didn't have to change who I was to reach two very different types of people.
Marc Jacobs

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
Jonas Salk

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.
Norman Rockwell

It's quite highly possible that I have peaked. I mean, I just can't imagine what else I could do beyond this. It's really a bittersweet kind of feeling.
Will Smith