History repeats itself and that's one of the things that's wrong with history.
I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with Watergate.
Left to ourselves we might pick the wrong health insurance the wrong mortgage the wrong school for our kids why unless they stop us we might pick the wrong light bulb.
Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head John Conyers says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it signed by a president who smokes funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?
Marriage is wild. I thought it was this perfect land of happiness and joy. Wrong! After you say you do you don't for a long time.
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue and always an enemy to happiness.
I see nothing wrong with the human trait to desire. In fact I consider it integral to our success mechanism. Becoming attached to what we desire is what causes the trouble. If you must have it in order to be happy then you are denying the happiness of the here and now.
When a small child I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment but soon flits away.
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.