Louis Untermeyer Famous Quotes
"Nothing but blackness aboveAnd nothing that moves but the cars...God, if you wish for our love,Fling us a handful of stars"
Louis Untermeyer Quotations
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
David Hume
"Our institutions and values are in jeopardy as the mores of the market pervade all social life in this country. Loyalty, honesty, courage, discipline, patriotism, and commitment to family are being crowded out by the goals and rules of economic rationality -- do whatever makes the most money."
Barry Schwartz
"Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live death is nigh at hand while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good."
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
"On action alone be thy interest, Never on its fruits. Let not the fruits of action be thy motive, Nor be thy attachment to inaction."
Bhagavad Gita
"Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
Clive Staples Lewis
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H L Mencken
"First I thought it was numbness, shock. The inability to believe that a just God could allow someone to destroy a gold mine of prehistoric knowledge for a year's worth of Salisbury steak...Life is a mystery. One man's life- altering experience is another man's tenderloin."
Jeff Melvoin
"He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist."
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Energy is eternal delight.
William Blake
There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull How do you hang on to someone who won't stay And how do you get rid of someone who won't go
Danny DeVito