Source Unknown Quotes

A collection of quotes by Source Unknown.

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Of toiling, uncheered and alone,

Of toiling, uncheered and alone,

Goals

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.

Glory

American is a very difficult language mixed with English.

American is a very difficult language mixed with English.

America

Americans see history as a straight line and themselves stan

Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. They believe in the future as if it were a religion; they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides.

America

America is a willingness of the heart.

America is a willingness of the heart.

America

The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the

The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.

Ancestry Ancestors

America, where people do not inquire of a stranger, What is

America, where people do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? But What can he do?

America

God gave man the challenge of raw materials -- not the ease

God gave man the challenge of raw materials -- not the ease of finished things. He left the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.

Glory

France was a land, England was a people, but America, having

France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter -- it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart.

America

I drink to make other people interesting.

I drink to make other people interesting.

Alcohol/alcoholism

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to

On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment -- half- time.

America

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

Many a woman drives a man to drink water.

Alcohol/alcoholism

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking peop

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

Alcohol/alcoholism

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.

Age

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we

When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

Age

The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as

The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

Alcohol/alcoholism

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence

One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

Age

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning

Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

Age

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to w

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.

Age

Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't,

Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.

Age