Famous Quotes Name R

First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.

It is a barren kind of criticism which tells you what a thing is not.

I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

I hate quotations.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Nature magically suits a man to his fortunes, by making them the fruit of his character.

The more he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

The world belongs to the energetic.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesman and philosophers and divines.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

What you are shouts so loud in my ears I cannot hear what you say.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others with out getting a few drops on yourself.

Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel.

What omniscience has music! So absolutely impersonal, yet every sufferer feels his secret sorrow soothed.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Nothing, at last, is sacred; but the integrity of your own mind.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.

I see her not dispirited, not weak, but well, remembering that she has seen dark times before, indeed with a kind of instinct that she sees a little better in a cloudy day.

Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all -- friends?

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Every man I meet is in some way my superior.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for his competitors, for it is that which all are practising every day while they live.

Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant.

Whoever is open, loyal, true; of humane and affable demeanour; honourable himself, and in his judgement of others; faithful to his word as to law, and faithful alike to God and man....such a man is a true gentleman.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.

When you strike at a king, you must kill him.

To know one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.

We are students of words: we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation-rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing.