William H Borah Famous Quotes
My boredom threshold is low at the best of times but I have spent more time being slowly and excruciatingly bored by children than any other section of the human race.
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William H Borah Quotations
An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
Bonnie Friedman
"The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness to an opponent, tolerance to a friend, your heart to your child, a good example to a father, deference to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you to yourself, respect to all men, charity."
Francis Maitland Balfour
It is not enough to conquer one must learn to seduce.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
You're never too old to become younger.
Mae West
"The earth has grown old with its burden of care But at Christmas it always is young, The heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair And its soul full of music breaks the air, When the song of angels is sung."
Phillips Brooks
"Thought itself needs words. It runs on them like a long wire. And if it loses the habit of words, little by little it becomes shapeless, somber."
Ugo Betti
"There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem."
Harold Stephens
"A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree or draw a child by studying the outlines of its form merely . . . but by watching for a time his motions and plays, the painter enters into his nature and can then draw him at every attitude . . ."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment."
Thomas Jefferson
"I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out."
Arthur Hays Sulzberger