He struck me as looking like a pear on top of two toothpicks.

-Acheson, Dean Gooderham
  Of Charles de Gaulle, 22 Oct, after a visit during the Cuban missile crisis. Quoted in David S McLellan and David C  Acheson (eds)  Among Friends: Personal Letters of Dean Gooderham Acheson (1980).

   If you wanttoknow thetaste of a pear, you musttastethe pear by eating it for yourself. If you want to know the theoryand methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.

-Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
   Address to the  Anti- Japanese Military and Political College,  Jul.