Miscellaneous Quotes

Every year, back comes Spring, with nasty little birds yapping their fool heads off and the ground all mucked up with plants.

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.

I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.

A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

You know what the fellow said: In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michaelangelo, Leonardo Da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love--they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

The most depraved type of being is that without purpose.

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

Man's nature is not always to advance; it has its advances and retreats.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.

When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.

With the sleep of dreams comes nightmares.

The worst thing that could happen to anybody, would be to not be used for anything by anybody.

This world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel.