Maria Mitchell Famous Quotes
BesideCother art to be learned -- not to see what is not.
Study as if you were going to live forever live as if you were going to die tomorrow.
Maria Mitchell Quotations
Music is the harmonious voice of creation an echo of the invisible world.
Giuseppe Mazzini
"The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters."
Henry Louis Mencken
"Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide."
Henry David Thoreau
Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.
Polybius
"Why dost thou gaze upon the sky O that I were yon spangled sphere Then every star should be an eye, To wander o'er thy beauties here."
Sir Thomas More
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted the trouble is I don't know which half.
John Wanamaker
"It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God only."
William Blake
Don't set your wit against a child.
Baron Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett
They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.
Kahlil Gibran
"History balances the frustration of how far we have to go with the satisfaction of how far we have come. It teaches us tolerance for the human shortcomings and imperfections which are not uniquely of our generation, but of all time."
Lewis F Powell Jr