Miscellaneous Quotes

Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.

Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on; it is never of any use to oneself.

A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind.

Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude, but their attitude, that will determine their altitude.

You do what you are...You�re born with a gift. If not that, then you get good at something along the way. And what you�re good at. you don�t take for granted.

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

You play the hand you're dealt. I think the game's worthwhile.

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, whose shade you do not expect to sit.

Things are more like they are today than they have ever been before.

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect.