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.

I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One... I am become Death, the Shatterer of Worlds.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

If you can't ignore an insult, top it if you can't top it, laugh it off and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

I play the notes as they are written, but it is God who makes the music.

Many men can make a fortune but very few can build a family.

Many men can make a fortune by very few can build a family.

Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.

Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising.

There are pauses amidst study, and even pauses of seeming idleness, in which a process goes on which may be likened to the digestion of food. In those seasons of repose, the powers are gathering their strength for new efforts; as land which lies fallow recovers itself for tillage.

Never judge a book by its movie.

Never judge a book by its movie.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.

Look for strengths in people, not weakness; for good, not evil. Most of us find what we search for.

Good timber does not grow with ease the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees.

In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects.

The citizen who criticizes his country is paying it an implied tribute.

Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.

One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

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

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.

A loving wife will do anything for her husband except stop criticizing him and trying to improve him.

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine.

My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we *can* suppose.

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge.

God is dead, but fifty thousand social workers have risen to take his place.

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.

Our love is God. Lets go grab a slushie.

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

Sleep is an eight-hour peep show of infantile erotica.

I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

I am not young enough to know everything.

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more time for dreaming.

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair; and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.

Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.

The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn.

Never judge a book by its movie.

Never judge a book by its movie.

For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.