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It was the boast of Augustus that he found Rome of brick and left it of marble. But how much nobler will be the sovereign's boast when he shall have it to say that he found law... a sealed book and left it a living letter found it the patrimony of the rich and left it the inheritance of the poor found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression and left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence. – Henry Brougham
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. – Hunter S. Thompson
It was the most incredible thing that has ever happened to me in my life. It was as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you. – Ernest Rutheford
It was the same with those old birds in Greece and Rome as it is now. The only thing new in the world is the history you don't know. – Harry S Truman
It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. – Ornette Coleman
It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil. – Dag Hammarskjld
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it. – Mark Twain
It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it. – Albert Einstein, Letter, 24 March 1954. Quoted in "Albert Einstein: The Human Side," edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman
It wasn't that Microsoft was so brilliant or clever in copying the Mac, it's that the Mac was a sitting duck for 10 years. That's Apple's problem: Their differentiation evaporated. – Steve Jobs
It well becomes a young man to be modest. – Titus Maccius Plautus
It were not best that we should all think alike it is the difference of opinion that makes horse races. - from Pudd'nhead Wilson – Mark Twain
It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them. – Charles Haddon Spurgeon
It will be hard to discover a better [method of education] than that which the experience of so many ages has already discovered, and this may be summed up as consisting in gymnastics for the body, and _music_ for the soul... For this reason is a musical education so essential; since it causes Rhythm and Harmony to penetrate most intimately into the soul, taking the strongest hold upon it, filling it with _beauty_ and making the man _beautiful-minded_. – Plato, from a footnote in The Colloquy of Monos and Una, Edgar Allen Poe
It will generally be found that men who are constantly lamenting their ill luck are only reaping the consequences of their own neglect, mismanagement, and improvidence, or want of application. – Samuel Smiles
It will go down in history as a turning point for the music industry. This is landmark stuff. I can't overestimate it! – Steve Jobs
It will not be any European statesman who will unite Europe Europe will be united by the Chinese. – Charles De Gaulle
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. – George W. Foote
It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation. – Jane Austen
It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend to sound pretty silly in 5 years. – John Von Neumann (ca. 1949)
It would be a sad situation if the wrapper were better than the meat wrapped inside it. (referring to clothing) – Albert Einstein
It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them. – John Steinbeck
It would be fair in terms of justice that those who believe in 'Life After Death' live much less than those who do not believe in such a thing! – Mehmet Murat ildan
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past. . . – Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)
It would be nice if the Food and Drug Administration stopped issuing warnings about toxic substances and just gave me the names of one or two things still safe to eat. – Robert Martin Fuoss
It would be nice to find a ‘planet of trees and birds’ in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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