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Opinion
Such and so various are the tastes of men.
AKENSIDE, MARK
I am my own ancestor.
JUNOT, ANDOCHE
Old friends are best. King James used to call for his old shoes; they were easiest for his feet.
SELDEN, JOHN
I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
With the single of exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his.
SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
THOREAU, HENRY DAVID
I agree with no man’s opinions. I have some of my own.
TURGENEV, IVAN SERGEIEVITCH
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the univere.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The same person can be, without any contradiction… a liberal, a woman, a vegetarian, a long-distance runner…
AMARTYA SEN
Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
Bernard M. Baruch
There are as many opinions as there are experts.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Oratory
Our swords shall play the orator for us.
MARLOWE, CHRISTOPHER
When I see a bird that walks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck.
Richard Cardinal Cushing
Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orator really did lose his virginity.
Benjamin Disraeli
It depends. If I am to speak ten minutes, I need a week for preparation; if fifteen minutes, three days; if half an hour, two days; if an hour, I am ready now.
Josephus Daniels
Order
Order is heaven’s first law.
POPE, ALEXANDER
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM
To conceive order, to return to order, to realize order in oneself, around oneself, of oneself, this is aesthetic and moral beauty, ….
Henri Frederic Amiel
He who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows out the plan, carries on a thread which will guide him through the labrynth of the most busy life.
Hugh Blair