Then, not all quotes are good ones

"...you don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect"
-Edwin Meese, Attorney General of the United States 1985-88

(facepalm)

“If we wish to examine a problem and have no other authority to whom we can turn, then we must put our intelligence to the test.”
― Dante Alighieri, De Vulgari Eloquintia, I, IX, 1-4

The man who has no imagination has no wings.

Muhammad Ali

“Experience is that wonderful faculty that lets us recognize our mistakes when we make them again.”
– Anonymous

Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.”
― Aristotle

One that I recently discovered:

“I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” - Michael Jordan

You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them.

Desmond Tutu

"Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit."
―Aristotle

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde

Heard at First Manassas
 

"Yes! O Lordy, I am killed!" unknown(slightly wounded) 5th Virginian. "Well" I said, ' if you are really killed, why in the devil don't you stop hallooing?...' He is still alive today, but he never forgave me!"- Pvt John Opie -5th Virginia Inf. at First Bull Run...the Great Skedaddle:D

"If liberty and equality are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
― Aristotle

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.

Muhammad Ali

"Patriotism. Combustible rubbish ready to the torch of any one ambitious to illuminate his name."
― Ambrose Bierce

You may delay, but time will not.

Benjamin Franklin

"As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand."
― Josh Billings

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

Carl Sagan

"I like nonsense; it wakes up the braincells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope which is what I do, and that enables me to laugh at life's realities." --Dr. Seuss

"The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day we were aware of only one Earth."
― Sultan Bin Salman al-Saud, of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, after having been on the International Space Station