James Whitcomb Riley Famous Quotes



The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come.


James Whitcomb Riley Quotations






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Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.
Caecilius Statius

"To fly from, need not be to hate, makind All are not fit with them to stir and toil, Nor is it discontent to keep the mind Deep in its fountain."
George Gordon Byron

Sex is emotion in motion.
Mae West

"A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
Oscar Fingall O Flahertie Wills Wilde

"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
G K Chesterton

"The first lady is, and always has been, an unpaid public servant elected by one person, her husband."
Claudia Alta Taylor Johnson

"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half."
Sir Winston Churchill

"Every day I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well."
Mary Cholmondeley

I think all of us are looking at the future with yesterday's eyes.
Dan Burrus

"All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first."
Ralph Waldo Emerson