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"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece." »G. K. Chesterton
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"Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest." »Wilson Mizner
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"Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest." »Wilson Mizner
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"It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true." »Bertrand Russell
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"On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks." »H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow"
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"That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent." »Aldous Huxley
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"Whoever said Marriage is a 5-5 proposition laid the foundation for more divorce fees than any other short sentence in our language." »Austin Elliot
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"Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistical structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies." »Alfred Korzybski, His book, Science And Sanity
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"There is something precious in our being mysteries to ourselves, in our being unable ever to see through even the person who is closest to our heart and to reckon with him as though he were a logical proposition or a problem in accounting." »Rudolf Karl Bultmann
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." »Abraham Lincoln
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"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn." »Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body." »John Adams
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"The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true. They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body." »John Adams
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"Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim." »Lord Macaulay
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"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them." »Adlai E. Jr. Stevenson
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"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth." »Abraham Lincoln
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"There's a dark side to each and every human soul. We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vadar in all of us. Thing is, this ain't no either or proposition. We're talking about dialectics, the good and the bad merging into us. You can run but you can't hide. My experience Face the darkness, stare it down. Own it. As brother Nietzsche said, being human is a complicated gig. Give that old dark night of the soul a hug Howl the eternal yes" »Stuart Stevens
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"Blaise Pascal used to mark with charcoal the walls of his playroom, seeking a means of making a circle perfectly round and a triangle whose sides and angle were all equal. He discovered these things for himself and then began to seek the relationship which existed between them. He did not know any mathematical terms and so he made up his own. Using these names he made axioms and finally developed perfect demonstrations, until he had come to the thirty-second proposition of Euclid." »C. M. Cox
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