Russell Hoban Famous Quotes
"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn't in us. It's almost as if we're put here on earth to show how silly they aren't.
Russell Hoban Quotations
"Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
Johann von Goethe
He who hasn't hacked assemply language as a youth has no heart. He who does as an adult has no brain.
John Moore
Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.
Beatrix Potter
Washington is the only place where sound travels faster than light.
C V R Thompson
"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
Plato
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
John F Kennedy
A child's hand in yours -- what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.
Marjorie Holmes
"What is a minority The chosen heroes of this earth have been in a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privilege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority. It is the minority that have stood in the van of every moral conflict, and achieved all that is noble in the history of the world."
John B Gough
"Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the trees, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back."
Edgar Lee Masters