William Penn Famous Quotes
"Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers."
"True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it."
"True silence is the rest of the mind it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment."
"No pain, no palm no thorns, no throne no gall, no glory, no glory no cross, no crown."
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
"If a civil word or two will render a man happy, he must be a wretch, indeed who will not give them to him. Such a disposition is like lighting another man's candle by one's own, which loses none of its brilliancy by what the other gains."
"Believe nothing against another but on good authority and never report what may hurt another, unless it be a greater hurt to some other to conceal it."
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.
"Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood."
Never marry but for love but see that thou lovest what is lovely.
William Penn Quotations
What a waste it is to lose one's mind--or not to have a mind. How true that is.
J Danforth Quayle
"The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV."
P J O Rourke
Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
Aesop
"Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems."
Scott Adams
"When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange -- my youth."
Sara Teasdale
Friends are angels that lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.
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Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
Bertrand Russell
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Johannes Tillich
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
Kingman Brewster Jr
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle