Everything Quotes

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

I seldom think about my limitations, and they never make me sad. Perhaps there is just a touch of yearning at times; but it is vague, like a breeze among flowers.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Many people know so little about what is beyond their short range of experience. They look within themselves - and find nothing! Therefore they conclude that there is nothing outside themselves either.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.

It is a terrible thing to see and have no vision.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens the vision.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

The marvelous richness of human experience would lose something of rewarding joy if there were no limitations to overcome. The hilltop hour would not be half so wonderful if there were no dark valleys to traverse.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn't pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.

While playing golf today I hit two good balls. I stepped on a rake.

A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

You can't buy love, but you can pay heavily for it.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn't need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

She's a big-hearted girl with hips to match.

Why do Jewish divorces cost so much? They're worth it.

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.

There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.

My other brother-in-law died. He was a karate expert, then joined the army. The first time he saluted, he killed himself.

She's been married so many times she has rice marks on her face.

My son complains about headaches. I tell him all the time, when you get out of bed, it's feet first!

The horse I bet on was so slow, the jockey kept a diary of the trip.

She has a wash and wear bridal gown.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.