A collection of quotes by Source Unknown.
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Of toiling, uncheered and alone,
Source Unknown
The fire of glory is the torch of the mind.
American is a very difficult language mixed with English.
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 is a willingness of the heart.
The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.
America, where people do not inquire of a stranger, What is he? But What can he do?
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.
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.
I drink to make other people interesting.
On Thanksgiving Day, all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment -- half- time.
Many a woman drives a man to drink water.
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.
You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow.
When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.
The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.
One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.
Thirty -- the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.
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.