James Abram Garfield Famous Quotes
"If wrinkles must be written upon your brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old."
All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
"Next in importance to Freedom and Justice is popular education, without which neither Freedom nor Justice can be permanently maintained."
Ideas control the world.
James Abram Garfield Quotations
"Take all your dukes and marquesses and earls and viscounts, pack them into one chamber, call it the House of Lords to satisfy their pride and then strip it of all political power. It's a solution so perfectly elegant and preposterous that only the British could have managed it."
Charles Krauthammer
No man loves life like him that's growing old.
Sophocles
"Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it."
Joseph Conrad
"All sanity depends on this that is should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are moving easily under the flesh."
Doris Lessing
"If you saw two guys named Hambone and Flippy, which one would you think liked dolphins the most I'd say Flippy, wouldn't you You'd be wrong though. It's Hambone."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it."
Samuel Johnson
"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones."
Donald H Rumsfeld
Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
Wystan Hugh Auden
Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
"She is not fair to outward view As many maidens be Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me Oh then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a spring of light."
Hartley Coleridge