Edwin Holt Hughes Famous Quotes
If we were to be asked suddenly to give a definition of humility we would doubtless be greatly embarrassed.
God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.
Edwin Holt Hughes Quotations
"I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says 'Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have - When he gives everything that is in him to do the job he has before him. That is all you can ask of him and that is what I have tried to do."
Harry S Truman
"All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone."
Richard von Weizscker
Genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.
Charles Spencer
You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.
Kahlil Gibran
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
Abraham Lincoln
"Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good fortune lasts. Second, his relatives they go only as far as the grave, leave him there. The third friend, his good deeds, go with him beyond the grave."
The Talmud
Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood.
Mary Hirsch
Character is what can do without success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man is his own hell.
Henry Louis Mencken
A snake lurks in the grass.
Virgil