Horace Bushnell Famous Quotes
"It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable."
"Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin."
Horace Bushnell Quotations
With silence favor me.
Horace
"The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded."
Dr Dale E Turner
Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'.
Michael McClary
"Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."
Roald Dahl
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
Sir Walter Besant
The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Alfred North Whitehead
"There it was, hidden in alphabetical order."
Rita Holt
Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.
Jesse Jackson
"Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off."
Bill Veeck
"A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction."
Rita Mae Brown