Famous Quotes Name L

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.

Reality is something you rise above.

There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

Watching football is like watching pornography. There's plenty of action, and I can't take my eyes off it, but when it's over, I wonder why the hell I spent an afternoon doing it.

Next to theology I give to music the highest place and honor. And we see how David and all the saints have wrought their godly thoughts into verse, rhyme, and song.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.

If ignorance paid dividends, most Americans could make a fortune out of what they don't know about economics.

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame.

The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh, Through the white and drifted snow.

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

I don't really trust a sane person.

When they took the 4th Amendment, I was quiet because I didn't deal drugs. When they took the 6th Amendment, I was quiet because I am innocent. When they took the 2nd Amendment, I was quiet because I don't own a gun. Now they have taken the 1st Amendment, and I can only be quiet.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death.

The qualities that get a man into power are not those that lead him, once established, to use power wisely.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.

America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

When things haven't gone well for you, call in a secretary or a staff man and chew him out. You will sleep better and they will appreciate the attention.

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. (On appeasement

I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.

The Negro says, 'Now.' Others say, 'Never.' The voice of responsible Americans ... says, 'Together.' There is no other way.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

I greet you as the shapers of American society.

There are plenty of recommendations on how to get out of trouble cheaply and fast. Most of them come down to this Deny your responsibility.

All that Hubert needs over there is a gal to answer the phone and a pencil with an eraser on it.

I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.

I believe the destiny of your generation-and your nation-is a rendezvous with excellence.

Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.

Every man has a right to a Saturday night bath.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

Jack was out kissing babies while I was out passing bills. Someone had to tend the store.

Organized crime constitutes nothing less than a guerilla war against society.

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

I'm tired. I'm tired of feeling rejected by the American people. I'm tired of waking up in the middle of the night worrying about the war.

Light at the end of the tunnel We don't even have a tunnel we don't even know where the tunnel is.

The American city should be a collection of communities where every member has a right to belong. It should be a place where every man feels safe on his streets and in the house of his friends. It should be a place where each individual's dignity and self-respect is strengthened by the respect and affection of his neighbors. It should be a place where each of us can find the satisfaciton and warmth which comes from being a member of the community of man. This is what man sought at the dawn of civilzation. It is what we seek today.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help-and God's.