Famous Quotes Name J

It is folly for an eminent person to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected by it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age, have passed through this fiery persecution. There is no defense against reproach but obscurity; it is a kind of concomitant to greatness, as satires and invectives were an essential part of a Roman triumph.

A good writer is not necessarily a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Curiosity in children, is but an appetite for knowledge. One great reason why children abandon themselves wholly to silly pursuits and trifle away their time insipidly is, because they find their curiosity balked, and their inquiries neglected.

You can only flap your arms so much before gravity catches up to you.

A turtle with no legs tends not to go anywhere.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

... I pledge allegiance to the Christian flag and to the Savior, for whose Kingdom it stands, one Savior, crucified, risen, and coming again, with life and liberty for all who believe.

Our party has been accused of fooling the public by calling tax increases 'revenue enhancement.' Not so. No one was fooled.

People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

Republicans have been accused of abandoning the poor. It's the other way around. They never vote for us.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind--or not to have a mind. How true that is.

We're going to have the best-educated American people in the world.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here.

All that is gold does not glitter not all those that wander are lost.

His house was perfect, whether you liked food, or sleep, or work, or story-telling, or singing, or just sitting and thinking, best, or a pleasant mixture of them all.

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.

'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.

Do you ever sit down and wonder what is wrong with the world Do you ever ask yourself why it is that Christians seem to have so little influence, why they seem to achieve so little, for all their numbers, in putting the world right To each of those two questions there is ultimately but one answer. It is this we lack the mind of Christ.

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that-thank Heaven-nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

We do not know, in most cases, how far social failure and success are due to heredity, and how far to environment. But environment is the easier of the two to improve.

Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection.

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

Who has not hopedTo outrage an enemy's dignityWho has not been sweptBy the wish to hurtAnd who has not thought that the impersonal worldDeserves no better than to be destroyedBy one fabulous sign of his displeasure

My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions, but in the fewness of my wants.

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.

Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught.

Everyone tries to define this thing called Character. It's not hard. Character is doing what's right when nobody's looking.

Minor surgery is surgery someone else is having.

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them--if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry.

You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. But immediately. You can't afford to lose a minute.

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don't feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.

One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

In communities where men build ships for their own sons to fish or fight from, quality is never a problem.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Justice is incedental to law and order.

I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

Justice is incidental to law and order.