A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.

Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.

When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.

No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

A thief believes everybody steals.

Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

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

Instead of loving your enemies - treat your friends a little better.

It is hard to convince a high-school student that he will encounter a lot of problems more difficult than those of algebra and geometry.

Some men storm imaginary Alps all their lives, and die in the foothills cursing difficulties which do not exist.

You needn't love your enemy, but if you refrain from telling lies about him, you are doing well enough.

Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.

No man would listen to you talk if he didn't know it was his turn next.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

If a man has money, it is usually a sign, too, that he knows how to take care of it; don't imagine his money is easy to get simply because he has plenty of it.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers.

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

At the end, the realization is that she had to get to a place in her life where she could drop her guard and make peace with the fact that whether she had a small amount of time, that she had to kind of live it completely through, instead of living by the rules.

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.

The fact is I've been in Massachusetts for the last two weeks, and it seems over the last few days that the price is increasing by the hour at the pump, so there needs to be an aggressive investigation.

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Working-class Americans have waited too long, close to a decade in fact, for an increase in the minimum wage. This has been the second longest period without a pay raise since the Federal minimum wage law was first enacted in 1938.

The fact is, Latinos now own their own lives and I believe they can afford to look back without judgment.

The fact that it's science fiction gives you the license to do anything you want to do.

It has to do with the fact that Ford, for all his greatness, is an Irish egomaniac, as anyone who knows him will say.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

I think the fact that I'm so well known to be gay makes it very difficult to have a convincing relationship with a woman on screen. It wouldn't be at all difficult for me to kiss a woman - I'll kiss a frog if you like.

People expect us to be different, but we're not. We're very similar people, and it's because we're so similar and close to each other that we make each other laugh - in fact we make each other laugh more than we make anyone else laugh.

I can't tell you how hard I worked the last year. In fact, I worked so hard that I know I can't maintain that same work level in 2001, so I've got to quit something.

The miracle of light pours over the green and brown expanse of saw grass and of water, shining and slowly moving, the grass and water that is the meaning and the central fact of the Everglades. It is a river of grass.

The key to accepting responsibility for your life is to accept the fact that your choices, every one of them, are leading you inexorably to either success or failure, however you define those terms.

In fact I have nightmares about having children. I want to carry a baby and feel the life within me and in my dream, I do. But every time after it's born, there's this incredible fear, this pounding pulse of fear. It's a real bad nightmare.

All my songs were solo voices. Just me singing. In fact, that was the gimmick - no gimmick. Just singing straight with not too much background.

The fact is that young people are going to have sex whether you like it or not.

We have stabilized our economy. We took over a very sick economy, and we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month. We have stopped the hemorrhaging. In fact, we had 140,000 job growth last month. And that's what I call progress.

As a matter of fact they'd blacken us down. I guess there's a reason that according to what the Caucasian wanted us to look like. He wanted us to look-if we were Black, then he had his idea of what we look like.

I felt pretty comfortable with Westerns, apart from the fact I couldn't ride.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance.

Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing.

There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.