Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream of things that never were and ask why not.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?