John K Hutchens Famous Quotes
"I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched."
John K Hutchens Quotations
An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
Edwin P Whipple
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."
Herman Melville
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Albert Einstein
"I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket."
Sylvia Plath
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
Hector Hugh Munro
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves--at what we did or did not do.
Peter McWilliams
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
James Earl Jimmy Carter Jr
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results."
James Allen
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Michael Faraday
Don't simply retire from something have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick