James Gilmore Backus Famous Quotes
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success.
James Gilmore Backus Quotations
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore
Henry Ward Beecher
Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious.
Virgil
"Life's battles don't always go to the stronger or faster man. But sooner or later the man who wins, is the man who thinks he can."
Vince Lombardi
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Woody Allen
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Dorothea Brande
"Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."
Frank Zappa
"Through his mastery of storytelling techniques, he has managed to separate his character, in the public mind, from his actions as president. ... He has, in short, mesmerized us with that steady gaze."
Jean Nathan Miller
"What is a husband He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can-don't disappoint him."
Alan Marshall Beck
Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
George Orwell
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe