William Graham Sumner Famous Quotes
"Property left to a child may soon be lost but the inheritance of virtue--a good name an unblemished reputation--will abide forever. If those who are toiling for wealth to leave their children, would but take half the pains to secure for them virtuous habits, how much more serviceable would they be. The largest property may be wrested from a child, but virtue will stand by him to the last."
William Graham Sumner Quotations
"The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once."
Demosthenes
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
Churton Collins
"There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
Benjamin Franklin
"Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Lord Acton
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Amy Carter
"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
Socrates
"Christmas--that magic blanket that wraps itself about us, that something so intangible that it is like a fragrance. It may weave a spell of nostalgia. Christmas may be a day of feasting, or of prayer, but always it will be a day of remembrance--a day in which we think of everything we have ever loved."
Augusta E Rundell
Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Bernard Mannes Baruch
Art may make a suit of clothes but nature must produce a man.
David Hume
"God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things."
Saint Augustine