William Henry Hudson Famous Quotes
You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.
William Henry Hudson Quotations
"When he is best, he is a little worse than a man and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast."
William Shakespeare
"The great omission in American life is solitude. . . that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit."
Marya Mannes
"We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're working. We have our attache' cases and our three piece suits. I get very disgusted with the younger generation of women. We had a torch to pass, and they are just sitting there. They don't realize it can be taken away. Things are going to have to get worse before they join in fighting the battle."
Erma Bombeck
An intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Samuel Johnson
"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement."
Antonio Gramsci
They are able because they think they are able.
Virgil
Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.
Benjamin Franklin
Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater
Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife.
Euripides
A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
Samuel Grafton