Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.

All some folks want is their fair share and yours.

Improvement begins with I.

Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it.

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.

Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time.

The fewer the facts, the stronger the opinion.

One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

Success isn't a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Laughter is a tranquilizer with no side effects.

One of the true tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.

Telling a teenager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath.

What the country needs are a few labor-making inventions.

The trouble with the future is that it usually arrives before we're ready for it.

Success isnt a result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

The fewer the facts the stronger the opinion.

In life as in football you wont go far unless you know where the goalposts are.

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down

A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame a little less than his share of the credit.

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not smashing it.

People with tact have less to retract.

The reporter is the daily prisoner of clocked facts. On all working days, he is expected to do his best in one swift swipe at each story.

As far as I know, only a small minority of mathematicians, even of those with Platonist views, accept the idea that there may be mathematical facts which are true but unknowable.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

The truth is more important than the facts.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

Facts, according to my ideas, are merely the elements of truths, and not the truths themselves; of all matters there are none so utterly useless by themselves as your mere matters of fact.

The intelligence investigation under the leadership of Senator Church, which I know has helped cause this investigation by you, points out that the agencies did not disclose certain facts to us and that certain plots were going on.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

Facts can be turned into art if one is artful enough.

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

Truth in science is always determined from observational facts.

I have fully cooperated with the investigation and before the grand jury, and I'm quite confident at the end of the day that we'll know what facts are in this particular case.

When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry. The poet, too, is not nearly so concerned with describing facts as with creating images.

Neither facts nor pictures seem to sink into our centers of feeling any more.

One of the most obvious facts about grown-ups, to a child, is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.

I knew the wild riders and the vacant land were about to vanish forever... and the more I considered the subject, the bigger the forever loomed. Without knowing how to do it, I began to record some facts around me, and the more I looked the more the panorama unfolded.

Facts are, insurance ratings are really dependent on the notion that some people are higher risk than others.

To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.

Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

In writing biography, fact and fiction shouldn't be mixed. And if they are, the fictional points should be printed in red ink, the facts printed in black ink.

Advocates of unrestricted abortion do not want the public to focus on these undeniable facts of fetal development, but the facts cannot be ignored.

In science, all facts, no matter how trivial or banal, enjoy democratic equality.