You can't make this shit up.
David Simon, Creator of The Wire, 2002-08
When events change, I change my mind. What do you do?
Dr. Paul Samuelson, Nobel Laureate, Meet the Press, 1970
The first rule of Indonesia business is 'Never steal anything small'.
James M. Hawes, Tryce, 1983
Haven't you heard, it's a battle of words. And most of them are lies.
Pink Floyd, Us and Them, Misquoted, 1973
By the sword you did your work, and by the sword you die.
Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 458 B.C.
Everybody’s gotta die sometime, Red.
Sergeant Barnes, Platoon, 1986
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at with no result.
Winston Churchill, Cuba, 1895
Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
Winston Churchill, October 1939
Never do anything that you wouldn't want your mother to read about in your hometown newspaper.
Bradley West, Deutsche Bank, 1995-1999
Nothing is lost save honor.
Jim Fisk, American Robber Baron, 1869
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lectures on the Philosophy of History, 1837
I affirm that might is right, justice the interest of the stronger.
Plato, The Republic, 375 B.C.
God, please don't let me fuck up.
The Fighter Pilot's Prayer, U.S. Air Force
You see, but you do not observe.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, A Scandal in Bohemia, 1892
Dead men tell no tales.
John Dryden, The Spanish Friar, 1681
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Narcotics Anonymous, 1981
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
Malcolm S. Forbes, As quoted by Earl Wilson, 1972
Desperate times call for desperate measures.
Hippocrates
Plurality must never be posited without necessity.
William of Occam, 14th century Philosopher and Theologian
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four, 1890
Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Mark Twain, American Author
There are decades where nothing happens, and weeks where decades happen.
Vladimir Lenin, 1919, probably apocryphal
Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war.
William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act 3, Scene I
Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, 1961
What a long, strange trip it’s been.
Robert Hunter, Truckin’, The Grateful Dead, 1970
On second marriages: The triumph of hope over experience.
Samuel Johnson, The Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791