Louis Booker Wright Famous Quotes
"We're trying to show that we're not a little bit of England in America, but a place for Americans to gain a better perspective on their own history."
"All the fundamental concepts which make up the kind of people we are today had their modern conception in the Tudor and Stuart periods. For us, that's the milk in the coconut."
Louis Booker Wright Quotations
"Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard."
Gene Wolfe
"Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art."
Izaak Walton
"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
Socrates
"The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
William Ellery Channing
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Martin Luther King Jr
Either war is obsolete or men are.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
"For a good cause, wrongdoing is virtuous."
Publilius Syrus
"Take care, don't fight, and remember if you do not choose to lead, you will forever be led by others. Find what scares you, and do it. And you can make a difference, if you choose to do so."
J Michael Straczynski
A man with a new idea is a crank -- until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Franklin D Roosevelt