Robert Penn Warren Famous Quotes
"The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him."
Robert Penn Warren Quotations
Wit makes its own welcome and levels all distinctions.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people. Personal relations are the important thing for ever and ever and not this outer life of telegrams and anger."
Edward Morgan Forster
"If you must choose between two paths, either of which will bring death and defeat, then choose the path wherein you die fighting for honor and justice."
Pan Ku
The highest destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein
Not the senses I have but what I do with them is my kingdom.
Hellen Keller
"To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.
Dan Quayle
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
George Sewell
The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.
Sam Ewig
"I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me to be the most civilised music in the world."
Peter Ustinov