Henry W Fowler Famous Quotes
"Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium."
Henry W Fowler Quotations
The objective of false prophets and teachers of whatever stripe is...the influence and control of the minds of men.
Ron Dart
Man is what he believes.
Anton Chekhov
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare
There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
Agnes Repplier
Every man has two countries his own and France.
Thomas Jefferson
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
Thomas Huxley
"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however."
Richard Bach
"Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere at first, but may be planting a seed we can't see right now. Sometimes we need to just do the best we can and then trust in an unfolding we can't design or ordain."
Sharon Salzberg
"If one has no vanity in this life of ours, there is no sufficient reason for living."
Leo Tolstoy
"Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history therefore, we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone therefore, we are saved by love."
Reinhold Niebuhr