James Russell Lowell Famous Quotes
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."
"Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty."
"They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy."
"Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle."
"We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.'"
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
But all God's angels come to us disguised...
"It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence."
"As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new,-and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend."
James Russell Lowell Quotations
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Sir Winston Churchill
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
Frank A Clark
Silence is a text easy to misread.
A A Attanasio
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Cristion Morgenstern
"Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and crystal brooks, With silken lines, and silver hooks."
John Donne
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous you get knocked down by traffic from both sides.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles
"Touch the earth, love the earth, honour the earth, her plains, her valleys, her hills, and her seas rest your spirit in her solitary places."
Ernest Dimnet
"Art strives for form, and hopes for beauty."
Rose Elizabeth Bird
By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.
Albert Einstein