George Ade Famous Quotes
"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."
Anybody can win unless there happens to be a second entry.
"'Whom are you' he asked, for he had attended business college."
George Ade Quotations
Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.
Ben Bova
"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world."
Peter Ustinov
"If man has good corn, or wood, or boards, or pigs to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles, or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad, hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
Abraham Lincoln
"The child gets two confusing messages when a parent tells him which is the right fork to use, and then proceeds to use the wrong one. So does the child who listens to parents bicker and fuss, yet is told to be nice to his brothers and sisters."
Rachel Blanchard
A man's errors are what make him amiable.
Johann von Goethe
"Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting."
Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
"To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction, is to live twice."
Kahlil Gibran
"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
Mahatma Gandhi
Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Emerich Edward Dalbert