It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

Everyone can recognize history when it happens. Everyone can recognize history after is has happened; but only the wise man knows at the moment what is vital and permanent, what is lasting and memorable.

Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely.

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.

My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind of war, and that therefore He had interfered with a project that would have brought the war to a speedier conclusion.

What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all.

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.