William Torrey Harris Famous Quotes



"Our schools have been scientifically designed to prevent over-education from happening. ... The average American (should be) content with their humble role in life, because they're not tempted to think about any other role."


William Torrey Harris Quotations






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The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in determination.
Tommy Lasorda

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
Lewis Carroll

"Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies."
John Donne

"My wife is a light eater ... as soon as it's light, she starts to eat."
Henny Youngman

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.
Francois de Fenelon

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Laurence J Peter

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
W Somerset Maugham

There is no little enemy.
Benjamin Franklin

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.
Edmund Burke

"In our system, at about 1130 on election night, they just push you off the edge of the cliff-and that's it. You might scream on the way down, but you're going to hit the bottom, and you're not going to be in elective office."
Walter Frederick Mondale