Walter Pater Famous Quotes
What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
Walter Pater Quotations
"If Thomas Edison invented electric light today, Dan Rather would report it on CBS News as candle making industry threatened."
Newt Gingrich
"The great and invigorating influences in American life have been the unorthodox the people who challenge an existing institution or way of life, or say and do things that make people think."
William O Douglas
It is easier to talk about money -- and much easier to talk about sex -- than it is to talk about power. People who have it deny it people who want it do not want to appear to hunger for it and people who engage in its machinations do so secretly.
Smiley Blanton
It is not too strong a statement to declare that this is the way civilizations begin to die ... None of us has the right to suppose it cannot happen here.
Richard Milhous Nixon
Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
"Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before."
Herodotus
It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses.
Dag Hammarskjld
"When the fox preaches, look to the geese."
German proverb
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.
Herb Caen
All is not gold that glitters.
Miguel de Cervantes