“Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.”
“He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.”
“The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.”
“Who has a daring eye tell downright truths and downright lies.”
“Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.”
“There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.”
“Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.”
“He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of others.”
“He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined party man.”
“If you wish to appear agreeable in society, you must consent to be taught many things which you know already.”
“He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.”
“He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.”
“There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivacity.”
“The faith that stands on authority is not faith.”
“In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.”
“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
“Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.”
“For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?”
“The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.”
“It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.”
“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.”
“The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.”
“So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours.”
“The surest sign of age is loneliness.”
“Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine.”
“Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams.”
“Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators.”
“Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.”
“That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.”
“Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man.”
“In life, as in chess, forethought wins.”
“You must never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it.”
“Self-laudation abounds among the unpolished, but nothing can stamp a man more sharply as ill-bred.”
“The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon.”
“Experience shows that success is due less to ability than to zeal. The winner is he who gives himself to his work body and soul.”
“The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.”
“Be not simply good; be good for something.”
“Even the best things are not equal to their fame.”
“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
“There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.”
“We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.”
“Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.”
“Work is often the father of pleasure.”
“We never live; we are always in the expectation of living.”
“We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.”
“Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination.”
“Shun idleness is the rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant metals.”
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
“Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.”
“Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.”
“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.”
“Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.”
“Poetry reveals to us the loveliness of nature, brings back the freshness of youthful feelings, reviews the relish of simple pleasures, keeps unquenched the enthusiasm which warmed the springtime of our being, refines youthful love, strengthens our interest in human mature, by vivid delineations of its tenderest and softest feelings, and through the brightness of its prophetic visions, helps faith to lay hold on the future life.”
“Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there.”
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”
“Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.”
“Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and its conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.”
“Great causes and little men go ill together.”
“Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.”
“Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.”
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
“Only the young die good.”
“Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.”
“A woman's mind is cleaner than a man s: She changes it more often.”
“Modesty; the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.”
“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.”
“I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.”
“A pessimist is one who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.”
“When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old, I know it is.”
“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”
“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”
“By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.”
“What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.”
“The sun will set without thy assistance.”
“The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.”
“A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.”
“Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.”
“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.”
“When they call the roll in the Senate, the senators do not know whether to answer ''present'' or ''not guilty.''”
“A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
“In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.”
“One must care about a world one will not see.”
“Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.”
“If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.”
“The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.”
“It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.”
“If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.”
“Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.”
“If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.”
“One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is to be prepared.”
“As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.”
“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.”
“Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.”
“Emotions have taught mankind to reason.”
“The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.”
“Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.”
“Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away.”
“More than ever before, Americans are suffering from back problems, back taxes, back rent, back auto payments.”
“Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.”
“Blessed is he who makes his companions laugh.”
“What God writes on your forehead you will become.”
“He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.”
“Ninety percent of this game is half mental.”
“Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded.”
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
“Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.”
“I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.”
“Passions are the gales of life.”
“True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.”
“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
“Man is a goal seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals.”
“We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.”
“We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.”
“Honest hearts produce honest actions.”
“Don't try to tear down other people's religion about their ears, Build up your own perfect structure of truth, and invite your listeners to enter in and enjoy it's glories.”
“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
“You can fire your secretary, divorce your spouse, abandon your children. But they remain your co-authors forever.”
“Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can't even describe and aren't even aware of.”
“I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”
“When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for the Presidency.”
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
“If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president s.”
“The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.”
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.”
“On this team, we're all united in a common goal: to keep my job.”
“If what you did yesterday seems big, you haven't done anything today.”
“If you don't ask, you don't get.”
“To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.”
“If you're not ready to die for it, put the word ''freedom'' out of your vocabulary.”
“I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment.”
“I owe nothing to Women's Lib.”
“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”
“Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”
“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.”
“I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death.”
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!”
“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
“Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.”
“Ambition never comes to an end.”
“The truth is at the beginning of anything and its end are alike touching.”
“In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
“You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”
“An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“Roots is not just a saga of my family. It is the symbolic saga of a people.”
“Electric flesh-arrows... traversing the body. A rainbow of color strikes the eyelids. A foam of music falls over the ears. It is the gong of the orgasm.”
“Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!”
“Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.”
“It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.”
“My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.”
“The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.”
“Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.”
“I'm Chevy Chase, and you're not.”
“Journalism is organized gossip.”
“My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language.”
“All science is either physics or stamp collecting.”
“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.”
“Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
“Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury.”
“A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
“They're only truly great who are truly good.”
“The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.”
“I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.”
“Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”
“Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
“Walking is a man's best medicine.”
“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.”
“The weak shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights.”
“The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.”
“Only the mediocre are always at their best.”
“Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.”
“Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.”
“Popular applause veers with the wind.”
“Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.”
“Talk to them about things they don't know. Try to give them an inferiority complex. If the actress is beautiful, screw her. If she isn't, present her with a valuable painting she will not understand. If they insist on being boring, kick their asses or twist their noses. And that's about all there is to it.”
“The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.”
“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”
“Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.”
“Before I got married, I had six theories about bringing up children. Now I have six children and no theories.”
“What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.”
“The strokes of the pen need deliberation as much as the sword needs swiftness.”
“Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.”
“Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.”
“We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.”
“If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.”
“Die, my dear doctor! That's the last thing I shall do!”
“Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.”
“My work is a game -- a very serious game.”
“He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.”
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
“Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.”
“Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!”
“Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom? To have the will to be responsible for one's self.”
“The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I, we are one in knowledge.”
“If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.”
“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book -- I'll waste no time reading it.”
“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.”
“Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.”
“Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once they grow up.”
“Familiarity breeds contempt.”
“Winning isn't everything, but losing is nothing.”
“Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.”
“There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.”
“He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.”
“I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.”
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
“The world is but a large prison, out of which some are daily selected for execution.”
“Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.”
“The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.”
“I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.”
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
“My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.”
“Be curious, not judgmental.”
“Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.”
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”
“Write on my gravestone: ''Infidel, Traitor.''--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.”
“When a sinister person means to be your enemy, they always start by trying to become your friend.”
“We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of Peace.”
“One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.”
“Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.”
“Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.”