There are some people that just have a knack of putting great understanding of the human condition into just a few words. Here are a few (I'll start out by getting into trouble):
Silence gives the proper grace to women. Sophocles
Wickedness is always easier than virtue for it takes the short cut to everything. Samuel Johnson
The best laid plans of o' mice and men gang aft a-gley Robert Burns
Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens. Daniel Webster
The best of prophets of the future is the past. Lord Byron
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool and all His works must be contemplated with respect. Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to. Mark Twain
A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect. Horace Porter
Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Advice is the smallest current coin. Ambrose Bierce
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Alva Edison
The cruelest lies are often told in silence. Robert Louis Stevenson
The great question...which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is "What does a woman want.?" Sigmund Freud
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. Will Rogers
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with. Will Rogers
And this last for today, one of my all time favorites;
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain
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