Lord Melbourne Famous Quotes
"Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say."
Lord Melbourne Quotations
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John Quincy Adams
"I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer."
Real Live Preacher
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
Plato
"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science."
Gary Zukav
A rut is a grave with the ends knocked out.
Laurence J Peter
"There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
Carl Gustav Jung
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The reflections on a day well spent furnish us with joys more pleasing than ten thousand triumphs.
Thomas a Kempis
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
"When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me."
Woody Allen