James Boswell Famous Quotes
"To act from pure benevolence is not possible for finite beings. Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive."
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
I have found you an argument I am not obliged to find you an understanding.
James Boswell Quotations
"In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat."
Robert Byrne
"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob."
G K Chesterton
"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer."
Alfred North Whitehead
Change everything except your loves.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
Mother Theresa
"There is something to be said for every error but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous."
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
"'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it."
Miguel de Cervantes
"Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money."
Barry Schwartz
"I've learned that when I wave to people in the country, they stop what they are doing and wave back."
Child Age 9
"You may not be in a class by yourself, but it sure doesn't take long to call the roll."
Bum Philips