| You can learn more about human
nature by reading the Bible than you can by living in New
York. William Lyon Phelps
*** Don’t worry about believing in yourself or doing it right; just do it. Do it and get better. Tellman Knudsen *** The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Daniel Webster *** God grants liberty only to those who love it and are always ready to guard and defend it. Daniel Webster *** It is cheaper to buy milk than it is to keep a cow. Samuel Butler *** Women may be the ones going to hell in limousines -- but it's the men who are stepping on the gas. Zane Grey *** There's many a good tune played on an old fiddle. Samuel Butler Man makes his own history. Karl Marx *** Nine-tenths of the talk of Evolutionists is sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and wholly unsupported by facts. This museum is full of proofs of the utter falsity of their views. Dr. Etheridge *** The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money. Margaret Thatcher *** To believe that natural selection, sexual selection or any other kind of selection can account for the countless differences we see about us requires more faith in _chance_ than a Christian is required to have in God. William Jennings Bryan *** Hard times pass by quicker when you are unconscious. Leif Enger *** The result of shielding men from the effects of their folly is to fill the world with fools. Herbert Spencer *** Why are happy people not afraid of death, while the insatiable and the unhappy so abhor that grim feature? George Ade *** Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others. William Allen white *** I've traveled a long way and some of the roads weren't paved. Will Rogers If you don't learn to laugh at trouble, you won't have anything to laugh at when you are old. Will Rogers *** We are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead. Bernard Mannes Baruch *** Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Theodore Dreiser *** Have you ever read a scientific definition of love? You never will. Why? Because a man does not know what love is until he gets into it, and then he is not scientific until he gets out again. William Jennings Bryan *** Say it with flowers. Patrick F. O'Keefe *** Economic distress will teach man, if anything can, that realities are less dangerous than fantasies, that fact-finding is more effective than fault-finding. Carl Lotus Backer *** From what I have learned in business, and from what I have seen in Washington, the hard questions rarely get asked during the good times. Joe Scott *** The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. Carl Lotus Backer *** You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Jonathan Swift *** The labor union is an elemental response to the human instinct for group action in dealing with group problems. William Green *** The bread of the stranger is bitter and his staircase hard to climb. Dante *** All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy. Alford E Smith *** I've always followed my father's advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anybody unintentionally. If I insult you, you can be goddamn sure I intend to. And, third, he told me not to go around looking for trouble. John Wayne *** If chance could fashion but a little flower, With perfume for each tiny thief, And furnish it with sunshine and with shower, Then chance would be creator, with the power To build a world for unbelief. Fred Emerson Brooks *** I suggest that the United Nations be reorganized without the communist nations in it. Herbert Clark Hoover *** I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. John D. Rockefeller Jr. *** In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is. Gertrude Stein *** Something there is that doesn't love a wall. Robert Frost *** Good fences make good neighbors. Robert Frost *** He who loves war, for the sake of its excitements, its pageantry, and its fancied glory, is the most eminent of all the dupes of folly and of sin. He who loathes war, with inexpressible loathing, who will do everything in his power to avert the dire and horrible calamity, but who will, nevertheless, in the last extremity, with a determined spirit, encounter all its perils, from love of country and of home, who is willing to sacrifice himself and all that is dear to him in life, to promote the well being of his fellow-man, will ever receive the homage of the world, and we also fully believe that he will receive the approval of God. JOHN S.C. ABBOTT *** No one can build his security upon (the) nobleness of another person. Willa Cather *** There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. Willa Cather *** A good listener is not only popular everywhere but after a while he knows something. Wilson Mizsner *** Life is just one damned thing after another. Frank Ward O'Malley *** Marriage is that relation between man and woman where the independence is equal, the dependence mutual, and the obligation reciprocal. Louis Kaufman *** Forgery is what Milton saw when he was blind. Don Marquis *** With savages the weak in body or mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilized men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the progress of elimination. We build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick; we institute poor laws; our medical experts exert their utmost skill to save the lives of every one to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands who from weak constitutions would have succumbed to smallpox. Thus the weak members of civilized societies propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. Charles Darwin *** Books on biology change constantly, likewise books on psychology, and yet they are held before the students as better authority than the unchanging Word of God. William Jennings Bryan *** And idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. Don Marquis *** Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis *** I have noticed that when chickens stop quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same way with the human race. Don Marquis *** There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble in running any country. If you are president all the trouble happens to you but if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people. Don Marquis *** The females of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat. Don Marquis *** That's all there is; there isn't any more. Ethel Barrymore *** I never think of the future. It come soon enough. Albert Einstein *** I cannot believe that God plays dice with the Cosmos. Albert Einstein *** It takes a genius to see the obvious. Albert Einstein *** An empty stomach is not a good political adviser. Albert Einstein *** Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein *** All I know is just what I read in the papers. Will Rogers *** I've never met a man I didn't like. Will Rogers *** There is nothing so stupid as an educated man, if you get them off the thing that he was educated in. Will Rogers *** The Republicans have their split right after an election and Democrats have their's just before an election. Will Rogers *** There is a lot of difference in pioneering for gold and pioneering for spinach. Will Rogers *** New York has more hermits than will be found in all the forest, mountains and deserts of the United States. Simeon Strunsky *** Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. Wendell Johnson *** One size fits everybody in China that I know. Anon *** Never tell a lawyer anything until it is too late. Vivien Kellems *** When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. Otto von Bismarck *** What would have been the fate of the Church if the early Christians had had as little faith as many of our Christians of to-day? And, if the Christians of to-day had the faith of the martyrs, how long would it be before the prophecy were fulfilled--"every knee shall bow and every tongue confess" William Jennings Bryan |
