Stephen Vincent Benet Famous Quotes
"Honesty rare as a man without self-pity, kinders as large and plain as a prairie wind."
"Life is not lost by dying life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways."
"We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom."
Stephen Vincent Benet Quotations
"History buffs probably noted the reunion at a Washington party a few weeks ago of three ex-presidents Carter, Ford and Nixon-See No Evil, Hear No Evil and Evil."
Robert Joseph Bob Dole
Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
Thomas Jefferson
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G K Chesterton
"If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives.... But close up a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern."
Ursula K LeGuin
"Whenever you want to marry someone, go have lunch with his ex-wife."
Francis William Bourdillon
"True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all."
Socrates
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran
"There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it."
George Bernard Shaw
Ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it."
Harriet Martineau