George Dana Boardman Famous Quotes



"The world is dying for want, not of good preaching, but of good hearing."

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George Dana Boardman Quotations






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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes

"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality."
Henry Louis Mencken

"Home is the wallpaper above the bed, the family dinner table, the church bells in the morning, the bruised shins of the playground, the small fears that come with dusk, the streets and squares and monuments and shops that constitute one's first universe."
Henry Anatole Grunwald

"To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes."
Fritz Kunkel

"Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is You can't beat Somebody with Nobody."
William Safire

Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Joe Theismann

"Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death."
Lyman Beecher

"And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead."
Philip Robinson

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford