Quotes 4901 till 4920 of 15856.
-
I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
-
I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
-
I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I have never made one.
-
I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.
-
I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.
-
I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he’s wrong, than the one comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
3 december 1964 -
I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.
-
I have never been able to discover anything disgraceful in being a colored man. But I have often found it inconvenient - in America.
-
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
-
I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
-
I have never heard anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a good deal about their acts.
-
I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.
-
I have never read for entertainment, but rather for understanding and to satisfy my eager curiosity.
-
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
-
I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
-
I have never, in all my various travels, seen but two sorts of people I mean men and women, who always have been, and ever will be, the same. The same vices and the same follies have been the fruit of all ages, though sometimes under different names.
-
I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
-
I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest man is like: it is terrifying.
All but-not-altogether-satisfactory famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 246)
