Quotes

Elmer Davis Quotes

One of the things that is wrong with America is that everybody who has done anything at all in his own field is expected to be an authority on every subject under the sun.

The first and great commandment is Don't let them scare you.

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

David Borenstein Quotes

Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs.

Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.

One cannot subdue a man by holding back his hands. Lasting peace comes not from force.

Joseph Roux Quotes

Our experience is composed rather of illusions that of wisdom acquired.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

When unhappy, one doubts everything when happy, one doubts nothing.

We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence.

Plautus Quotes

Aliter catuli longe olent, aliter sues. (Puppies and pigs have a very different smell.)

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Alice Duer Miller Quotes

Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.

When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

Mencius Quotes

Men must be decided on what they will not do, and then they are able to act with vigor in what they ought to do.

Never has a man who has bent himself been able to make others straight.

The great man is he who does not loose his child's heart.

Edward W. Howe Quotes

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Pam Brown Quotes

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox Quotes

For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.

It is easy enough to be pleasant, When life flows by like a song, But the man worth while is the one who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong. For the test of the heart is troubled, And it always comes with the years. And the smiles that is worth the praises of earth Is the smile that shines through tears.

The dark today leads into light tomorrow; There is no endless joy, ...and yet no endless sorrow.

And from the discontent of one man The world's best progress springs.

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough.

No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

Quotes

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

A man is infinitely more complicated than his thoughts.

The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.