October One-liners

Here are October’s additions to the one-liners collection.

  • “There’s no device known to mankind that will prevent people from being idiots.” - Mark Rasch
  • “I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.” - Nancy Mitford
  • “History is a set of lies agreed upon.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “You cannot lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.” - Napoleon Bonaparte
  • “I am the captain of my soul.” - Nelson Mandela
  • “Quitting is leading, too.” - Nelson Mandela
  • “It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.” - Niccolo Machiavelli
  • “Never was anything great achieved without danger.” - Niccolo Machiavelli
  • “Politics have no relation to morals.” - Niccolo Machiavelli
  • “A writer needs a pen, a painter needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army.” - Orson Welles
  • “Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.” - Orson Welles
  • “A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.” - Oscar Wilde
  • “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.” - Oscar Wilde
  • “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” - Oscar Wilde
  • “Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.” - Oscar Wilde
  • “I don’t want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there.” - Oscar Wilde
  • “To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.” - Oscar Wilde
  • “Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.” - Ozzy Osbourne
  • “Could be worse… I could be Sting.” - Ozzy Osbourne
  • “Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.” - Ozzy Osbourne

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