John Barth Famous Quotes
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth Quotations
"When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he is when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be."
Johann von Goethe
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
Epictetus
There are no extraordinary men...just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.
William Bull Halsey
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
William Westmoreland
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
Henry David Thoreau
Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
Christina Georgina Rossetti
"Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed"
Solomon Short
"America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better."
Anthony Walton
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Dr Rob Gilbert
Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm.
John F Kennedy