John Phillips Marquand Famous Quotes



"It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry."


John Phillips Marquand Quotations






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The young always have the same problem- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.
George Chapman

"When you come to a fork in the road, take it."
Lawrence Peter Berra

"When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose."
Dwight D Eisenhower

"You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference."
Chris Marie Evert

"The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A little in one's own pocket is better than much in another man's purse.
Miguel de Cervantes

The chief business of the American people is business.
Calvin Coolidge

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way.
Vincent Van Gogh

"You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done."
Jack Youngblood

"The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant."
Max De Pree