Merle Shain Famous Quotes
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself... If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
Merle Shain Quotations
"Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that."
Jean Babtiste Henri Lacordaire
"A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be the constant companion of your walks."
Thomas Jefferson
Courage is the price that life extracts for granting peace. The soul that knows it not. knows no release from little things.
Amelia Earhart Putnam
"The man whose acquisitions stick is the man who is always achieving and advancing whilst his neighbors, spending most of their time in relearning what they once knew but have forgotten, simply hold their own."
William James
"If there was a big gardening convention, and you got up and gave a speech in favor of fast-motion gardening, I bet you would get booed right off the stage. They're just not ready."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.
Johann von Goethe
The best love affairs are those we never had.
Norman Lindsay
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
Aristotle
Let me say with a Georgia accent that we cannot solve this problem if it requires a diplomatic passport to claim the rights of an American citizen.
David Dean Rusk
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still
J Paul Getty