John Wilkins Quotes
English - Clergyman January 1, 1614 - November 19, 1672

Garner up pleasant thoughts in your mind, for pleasant thoughts make pleasant lives.
John Wilkins

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.
John Wilkins


Anthony Wayne Quotes
American - Soldier January 1, 1745 - December 15, 1796

I shall begin my march for Camp tomorrow morning. It was not in my power to move until I could procure shoes for the troops almost barefoot. Anthony Wayne

Issue the orders Sir, and I will storm Hell.
Anthony Wayne


Betsy Ross Quotes
American - Celebrity January 1, 1752 - January 30, 1836

Today the American knight holds the commercial supremacy of the world.
Betsy Ross


Maria Edgeworth Quotes
Irish - Novelist January 1, 1767 - May 22, 1849

The human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return.
Maria Edgeworth

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.
Maria Edgeworth


Francis Bond Head Quotes
Canadian - Statesman January 1, 1793 - July 20, 1875


Although I had arrived in total darkness the light of truth at once burst upon my mind and I perceived most clearly that the republicans had overreached themselves.
Francis Bond Head

Do you think Revolutions are made with rose water?
Francis Bond Head


Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes
English - Poet January 1, 1819 - November 13, 1861

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them? Arthur Hugh Clough


Ludovic Halevy Quotes
French - Author January 1, 1834 - May 8, 1908

In order to make money the first thing is to have no need of it.
Ludovic Halevy

No news is good news.
Ludovic Halevy


Charles Bowen Quotes
English - Judge January 1, 1835 - April 10, 1894

More students have a better knowledge of pop culture than of the Constitution.
Charles Bowen

When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room - looking for a black hat - which isn't there.
Charles Bowen


James G. Frazer Quotes
Scottish - Scientist January 1, 1854 - May 7, 1941

The moral world is as little exempt as the physical world from the law of ceaseless change, of perpetual flux.
James G. Frazer

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
James G. Frazer

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.
Pierre de Coubertin

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.
Pierre de Coubertin


Alfred Stieglitz Quotes
American - Photographer January 1, 1864 - July 13, 1946

In photography there is a reality so subtle that it becomes more real than reality.
Alfred Stieglitz

I have a vision of life, and I try to find equivalents for it in the form of photographs.
Alfred Stieglitz

Several people feel I have photographed God. May be.
Alfred Stieglitz


Charles Edward Montague Quotes
English - Journalist January 1, 1867 - May 28, 1928

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.
Charles Edward Montague

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.
Charles Edward Montague


Frank Knox Quotes
American - Public Servant January 1, 1874 - April 28, 1944

I suspect that even today, with all the progress we have made in liberal thought, the quality of true tolerance is as rare as the quality of mercy.
Frank Knox

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.
Frank Knox


E. M. Forster Quotes
English - Novelist January 1, 1879 - June 7, 1970

What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. Forster

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. Forster

Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice.
E. M. Forster


Charles Seymour Quotes
American - Historian January 1, 1885 - August 11, 1963

We seek the truth and will endure the consequences.
Charles Seymour

Think wrongly if you please, but in all cases, think for yourself.
Charles Seymour


Artur Rodzinski Quotes
Polish - Musician January 1, 1892 - November 27, 1958

Only when every one of us and every nation learns the secret of love for all mankind will the world become a great orchestra, following the beat of the Greatest Conductor of all.
Artur Rodzinski

In or orchestra we have many nationalities, types, and temperaments.
Artur Rodzinski

I often wonder if we could not solve the world's problems on a similar basis of harmony.
Artur Rodzinski


J. Edgar Hoover Quotes
American - Public Servant January 1, 1895 - May 2, 1972

Just the minute the FBI begins making recommendations on what should be done with its information, it becomes a Gestapo.
J. Edgar Hoover

No amount of law enforcement can solve a problem that goes back to the family.
J. Edgar Hoover


Catherine Drinker Bowen Quotes
American - Writer January 1, 1897 - November 1, 1973

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always before or behind.
Catherine Drinker Bowen


Barry Goldwater Quotes
American - Politician January 1, 1909 - May 29, 1998

Equality, rightly understood as our founding fathers understood it, leads to liberty and to the emancipation of creative differences; wrongly understood, as it has been so tragically in our time, it leads first to conformity and then to despotism.
Barry Goldwater

Hubert Humphrey talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read Playboy magazine with your wife turning the pages.
Barry Goldwater

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. Barry Goldwater


John Henrik Clarke Quotes
American - Author January 1, 1915 - July 16, 1998

Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.
John Henrik Clarke

What I have learned is that a whole lot of people with degrees don't know a damn thing, and a lot of people with no degrees are brilliant. John Henrik Clarke


J. D. Salinger Quotes
American - Novelist January 1, 1919 - January 27, 2010

I'm aware that many of my friends will be saddened and shocked, or shock-saddened, over some of the chapters in 'The Catcher in the Rye.' Some of my best friends are children. In fact, all my best friends are children. It's almost unbearable for me to realize that my book will be kept on a shelf, out of their reach.
J. D. Salinger

What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
J. D. Salinger


John Fuller Quotes
English - Poet Born: January 1, 1937

When I began, poetry was very academic. You published little pamphlets from fancy presses. It was rather... chaste. There wasn't much public reading. Then there was poetry and jazz, which I don't think worked, though I love jazz.
John Fuller

It's always good to show that poetry isn't the little depressed lyric people believe it to be, that it's something bigger.
John Fuller

Hmmm. I think a lot of people can write poems that are howls of anguish. I think I've probably written such things and then torn them up.
John Fuller