Charles Sumner Famous Quotes
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned. I insist that this shall cease. The country needs repose after all its trials it deserves repose. And repose can only be found in everlasting principles.
Charles Sumner Quotations
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
Quentin Crisp
"He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young."
Joseph Addison
"Whatever you want to do, do it now. There are only so many tomorrows."
Michael Landon
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Harry S Truman
"There's not the least thing can be said or done, but people will talk and find fault."
Dante Alighieri
"Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel."
William Hazlitt
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.
Taoist Proverb
"Hear me, four quarters of the world - a relative I am Give me the strength to walk the soft earth, a relative to all that is Give me the eyes to see and the strength to understand, that I may be like you. With your power only can I face the winds."
Black Elk
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
Epictetus
"If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read President Can't Swim."
Lyndon B Johnson