“If villains understood the advantages of being virtuous, they would turn honest out of villainy.” — Ben Franklin

“My view of life is, that it’s next to impossible to convince anybody of anything.” — Lewis Carroll

“I cannot easily buy a blankbook to write thoughts in: they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.” — Thoreau

“To breed an animal with the right to make promises — is not this the paradoxical problem nature has set herself with regard to man?” — Nietzsche

“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” — Leonardo

“I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking.” — A.A. Milne

“Personally, I have always looked upon cricket as organized loafing.” — William Temple

“I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.” — G.K. Chesterton

“I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.” — H.L. Mencken

“Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising where praise is not due.” — Sydney Smith

“Now she is like everyone else.” — Charles de Gaulle, at the funeral of his daughter Anne, who had Down syndrome, February 1948