Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller Famous Quotes
"Folly, thou conquerest, and I must yieldAgainst stupidity the very godsThemselves contend in vain. Exalted reason,Resplendent daughter of the head divine,Wise foundress of the system of the world,Guide of the stars, who are thou then, if thou,Bound to the tail of folly's uncurb'd steed,Must, vainly shrieking, with the drunken crowd,Eyes open, plunge down headlong in the abyss."
"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished."
There is no such thing as chance and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller Quotations
Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more.
Edward H Harriman
"Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended."
Oriana Fallaci
"There smites nothing so sharp, nor smelleth so sour as shame."
William Langland
"Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness."
Robertson Davies
"Count it the greatest sin to prefer life to honor, and for the sake of living to love what makes life worth having."
Juvenal
"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam."
Lyndon B Johnson
Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.
J S Bryan
Walking is man's best medicine.
Hippocrates
"Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket."
Alan Marshall Beck
Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.
Ray Knight