I did not say anything. I was always embarresed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothin was done with the meat except to buy it.

He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

Benjamin Disraeli

He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty

Samuel Johnson

Better to be pruned to grow than cut up to burn.

John Trapp

They Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.

Octavio Paz

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.

Jonathan Swift

I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I seen it.

Carl Sandburg

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.

Albert Camus

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.

Albert Einstein

Once upon a time only Washington's face was on our money, now Washington's hands are on it too.

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Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

Richard M. Nixon

The knowledge of God is far from the love of Him.

Keith Miller