James Harvey Robinson Famous Quotes
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.
"American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralise every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency thoughtlessness, and optimism."
James Harvey Robinson Quotations
"Frailty, thy name is woman"
William Shakespeare
"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
Gore Vidal
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment.
Horace
"The fight is won or lost far away from witnessesbehind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights."
Muhammad Ali
"Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun."
Don Marquis
If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead.
Erma Bombeck
"The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do."
John Holt
"To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind."
W Somerset Maugham
Anything you fully do is an alone journey.
Natalie Goldberg
"There are at least two kinds of cowards. One kind always lives with himself, afraid to face the world. The other kind lives with the world, afraid to face himself."
Roscoe Snowden