Ambrose Bierce

 Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage. 

- Ambrose Bierce

Nat King Cole

 The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things. 

- Nat King Cole

Wernher von Braun

 Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. 

- Wernher von Braun

Albert Schweitzer

Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

- Albert Schweitzer

Harry S Truman

 It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

- Harry S Truman

Wayne Gretzky

 You miss 100% of the shots you don't take. 

- Wayne Gretzky

Theodore Roosevelt

 No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. 

- Theodore Roosevelt

Galileo Galilei

 All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. 

- Galileo Galilei

Kurt Vonnegut

 The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. 

- Kurt Vonnegut

Henny Youngman

 You have a nice personality, but not for a human being. 

- Henny Youngman

Thomas Jefferson

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. 

- Thomas Jefferson

Harvey Fierstein

 Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself. 

- Harvey Fierstein

Aristotle

 Homer has taught all other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. 

- Aristotle

Mark Twain

 Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel. 

- Mark Twain

Henry Kissinger

 The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. 

- Henry Kissinger