Miscellaneous Quotes

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization.

If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.

Sometimes the majority just means all the idiots are on the same side.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

What we humans are is really a remarkable thing. How can you doubt that we will survive and mature? There may be a lot of wisdom in the old statement about looking on the world lovingly. If we can, perhaps the world will have time to resolve itself.

Speeches are for the younger men who are going places. And I'm not going anyplace except six feet under the floor of that little chapel adjoining the museum and library at Abilene.

The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.

Why, you can take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together - what do you get? The sum of their fears.

As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.