41 Quotes Found
"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions."
"Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
"A new untruth is better than an old truth."
"Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light."
"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
"A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
"Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor."
"I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."
"The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
"Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left."
"The Amen of nature is always a flower."
"A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
"Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out."
"Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
"Controversy equalizes fools and wise men - and the fools know it."
"Men do not quit playing because they grow old they grow old because they quit playing."
"It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
"Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
"Beware how you take away hope from another human being."
"Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
"Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."
"Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
"The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving."
"The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
"Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air."
"Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise."
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
"Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
"If there is any principle of the Constitution that more imperatively calls for attachment than any other it is the principle of free thought, not free thought for those who agree with us but freedom for the thought that we hate."
"If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end."
"It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living."
"The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live."
"A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
"Have the courage to act instead of react."
"I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!"
"The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books."
"Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."
"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."
"Old age is fifteen years older than I am."