Quotes 41 till 60 of 1572.
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If a man could say nothing against a character but what he can prove, history could not be written.
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If we desire a society of peace, then we cannot achieve such a society through violence. If we desire a society without discrimination, then we must not discriminate against anyone in the process of building this society. If we desire a society that is democratic, then democracy must become a means as well as an end.
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In every one of those little stucco boxes there's some poor bastard who's never free except when he's fast asleep and dreaming that he's got the boss down the bottom of a well and is bunging lumps of coal at him.
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It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
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Let reverence for the laws be breathed by every American mother to the lisping babe that prattles on her lap. Let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges. Let it be written in primers, spelling books, and in almanacs. Let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in the courts of justice. And, in short, let it become the political religion of the nation.
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Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.
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No matter what our achievements might be, we think well of ourselves only in rare moments. We need people to bear witness against our inner judge, who keeps book on our shortcomings and transgressions. We need people to convince us that we are not as bad as we think we are.
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Nothing is capable of being well set to music that is not nonsense.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
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Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
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Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.
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Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable.
Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 467 -
That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.
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The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.
Bernard M. Baruch
American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965) -
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
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The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own -even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.
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The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Following the Equator (1897)
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