Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.

The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence.

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, gigantic when it precedes him, and pigmy in its proportions when it follows.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits.

I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep.

Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts.

Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good.

To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man.

Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour.

Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government.

She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows.

Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime.

Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for.

A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars.

Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts.

What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime Crime is the last resort of political half wits.

Espresso is to Italy what champagne is to France.

We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.

I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

Too much free time is certainly a monkey's paw in disguise. Most people can't handle a structureless life.

The man forget not, though in rags he lies, and know the mortal through a crown's disguise.

And that's just what I'm saying. I would never want to be like certain people, who change the way they dress, go out in disguise, wear a big floppy hat and dark shades. I would hate that.

We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.

There are people hell-bent on the idea that we're a Christian band in disguise, and that we have some secret message. We have no spiritual affiliation with this music. It's simply about life experience.

I beg of you... never assume an inner or an outer pose, never a disguise.

They've gone to great length to disguise the fact that I'm not in the band, even sending out a photo to promoters with my picture in it which then winds up in some of the ads on the flyers.

Sometimes failure isn't an opportunity in disguise, it's just you.

There are some legitimate security issues, but I believe many of the objections the administration is making are not for security reasons, but to disguise mistakes that were made prior to Sept. 11.

Praise undeserved, is satire in disguise.

Each one of them is Jesus in disguise.

I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.

The weeping of an heir is laughter in disguise.

Naked is the best disguise.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no time.

Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.

There are others who aim at popularity under the disguise of patriotism.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.

Most of the appearance of mirth in the world is not mirth, it is art. The wounded spirit is not seen, but walks under a disguise.