Sir Walter Besant Famous Quotes
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
The man who listens to Reason is lost reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it. Better keep yourself clean and bright you are the window through which you must see the world.
He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
"Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children."
"If you must hold yourself up to your children, hold yourself up as an object lesson and not as an example."
"A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."
Youth is a wonderful thing what a crime to waste it on children.
Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.
Sir Walter Besant Quotations
"A hit, a very palpable hit."
William Shakespeare
A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Our strength often increases in proportion to the obstacles imposed upon it.
Paul De Rapin
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
Eugene S Wilson
Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are not always wise.
Biblical Proverb
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will
"The great Creator to revereMust sure become the creatureBut still the preaching cant forbear,And ev'n the rigid featureYet ne'er with wits profane to rangeBe complaisance extendedAn atheist laugh's a poor exchangeFor deity offended."
Robert Burns
It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.
Truman Capote
Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.
Peter McWilliams