We shall maintain that no statement which refers to a 'reality'transcending the limits of all possible sense- experience can possibly have any literal significance.

-Ayer, SirAlfred Jules
  Language, Truth and Logic, ch.1.

Perhaps the least cheering statement ever made on the subject of art is that life imitates it.

-Lebowitz, Fran(ces Ann)
  Metropolitan Life,'Arts'.

Ithink Isaid'All menare Jews excepttheydon't know it.'I doubt I expected anyone to take the statement literally. But I think it's an understandable statement and a metaphoric way of indicating how history, sooner or later, treats all men.

-Malamud, Bernard
'An Interview', in L and J Fields (eds) Bernard Malamud (1975).

Every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.

-Popper, Sir Karl Raimund
  The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

In so far as a scientific statement speaks about reality, it must be falsifiable: and in so far as it is not falsifiable, it does not speak about reality.

-Popper, Sir Karl Raimund
  The Logic of Scientific Discovery (1934), appendix to1959 edition.

Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  TheABC of Reading, ch.1.

I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of militaryauthority, because I believethattheWar isbeing deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it.

-Sassoon, Siegfried Louvain
  'A Soldier's Declaration'. Statement sent to his commanding officer which was read out in the House of Commons and printed in TheTimes.

  He read partly for information, partly for comparison, partly for insight, partly for the sheer joy of felicitous statement.He delighted particularly inquotationswhich distilled the essence of an argument.

-Schlesinger, Arthur M(eier),Jr
  Of John F Kennedy. AThousand Days.