Benjamin Johnson Famous Quotes
"Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine Or leave a kiss but in the cup, And I'll not look for wine."
"It is not growing like a tree in bulk doth make man better be Or standing long an oak, three hundred year, To fall a log at last, dry, bald, and sere, A lily of a day is fairer in May Although it fall and die that night, It was the plant of flower and light, In small proportions we just beauties see And in short measures, life may perfect be."
Benjamin Johnson Quotations
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."
William Hazlitt
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
Abraham Lincoln
"f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng."
Anon
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"You live, you learn You love, you learn You cry, you learn You lose, you learn You bleed, you learn You scream, you learn"
Alanis Morissette
"The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"My son, give me thine heart..."
Proverbs 2326a Bible
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.
Hellen Keller
"There was this huge world out there, independent of us human beings and standing before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partly accessible to our inspection and thought. The contemplation of that world beckoned like a liberation."
Albert Einstein