Samuel McChord Crothers Famous Quotes
"Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways."
The trouble with facts is that there are so many of them.
"A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose."
Samuel McChord Crothers Quotations
Every man was not born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
Miguel de Cervantes
"What came from the earth returns back to the earth, and the spirit that was sent from heaven, again carried back, is received into the temple of heaven."
Lucretius
No one is listening until you make a mistake.
Anon
A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.
Mark Twain
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
Frederick Chiluba
"To be intelligent is to be open-minded, active, memoried, and persistently experimental."
Leopold Stein
"Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever."
Margaret Cho
"Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal."
Lenore Hershey
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority the test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
Ralph W Sockman
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
Abraham Joshua Heschel