Henry Allen Famous Quotes
It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it.
Henry Allen Quotations
"A man should not leave this earth with unfinished business. He should live each day as if it was a pre-flight check. He should ask each morning, am I prepared to lift-off"
Andrew Schneider
A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
Lawrence Peter Berra
"Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it."
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.
Pablo Picasso
"'Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry -- every man of every nation has done that -- 'tis the living up to it that's difficult."
William Makepeace Thackeray
"In peace, children inter their parents war violates the order of nature and causes parents to inter their children."
Herodotus
When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.
Thomas Alva Edison
Carter Please tell me you speak English. I'm Detective Carter. Do you speaka any English Do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth
Rush Hour
"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."
Edith Sitwell
"To err is human to forgive, divine."
Alexander Pope