If there had been a censorship of the press in Rome we should have had today neither Horace nor Juvenal, nor the philosophical writings of Cicero.
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.
Doubt is not a very agreeable status, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
Truth is a fruit which should not be plucked until it is ripe.
The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything.
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.