“One cannot continually disappoint a Continent.”

“Oceans of horse-hair, continents of parchment, and learned-sergeant eloquence, were it continued till the learned tongue wore itself small in the indefatigable learned mouth, cannot make unjust just.”

“… recognizing that there is more heartbreak in continuous disappointment than a void…”

“Damned to continued disappointment are they who dream only of their own happiness over that of others.”

“marriage is when a man stops disappointing many women and focuses on disappointing one!”

“If while alive you hurt or disappoint people you love, there's no use continuing such behavior when you're dead.”

“We are speaking on this occasion, not as members of this or that nation, continent, or creed, but as human beings, members of the species Man, whose continued existence is in doubt.”

“One of the secrets of a happy life is continous small treats.”

“Compressing 13,000 years of history on all continents into a 400-page book works out to an average of about one page per continent per 150 years, making brevity and simplification inevitable. Yet the compression brings a compensating benefit: long-term comparisons of regions yield insights that cannot be won from short-term studies of single societies.”

“[on w:Diego Rivera:].. the one artist on this continent who is in the class of the old masters.”