Quotes 181 till 200 of 207.
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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Virginibus Puerisque (1881) El Dorado -
Under the wide and starry sky. Dig the grave and let me lie.
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We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.
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We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
Speech Richmond, Virginia, 20 september 1952 -
We cannot be any stronger in our foreign policy for all the bombs and guns we may heap up in our arsenals than we are in the spirit which rules inside the country. Foreign policy, like a river, cannot rise above its source.
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We have confused the free with the free and easy.
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We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series.
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We mean by ''politics'' the people's business - the most important business there is.
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We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
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We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.
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What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.
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What do we mean by patriotism in the context of our times? I venture to suggest that what we mean is a sense of national responsibility... a patriotism which is not short, frenzied outbursts of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.
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What hangs people is the unfortunate circumstance of guilt.
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When everything is for 'fun' nothing is for the good.
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When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
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When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
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When your toil has been a pleasure, you have not earned money merely, but money, health, delight, and moral profit, all in one.
Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's (2016) 65 -
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
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You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
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