Cyrus H Curtis Famous Quotes
There are two kinds of men who never amount to much those who cannot do what they are told and those who can do nothing else.
Cyrus H Curtis Quotations
"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why learn at all if one day we will die and forget everything
Unknown
"Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others"
William Hazlitt
"Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it."
Woodrow Wilson
"It's funny that pirates were always going around searching for treasure, and they never realized that the real treasure was the fond memories they were creating."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"Josh Billings said, It is not only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too. Human beings have always employed an enormous variety of clever devices for running away from themselves, and the modern world is particularly rich in such stratagems."
John W Gardner
"Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray."
Oliver Goldsmith
I'm not sure I want popular opinion on my side -- I've noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.
Bethania McKenstry
"We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach."
Bertrand Russell
"A man who loses his money, gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better."
Benjamin Disraeli