Remembered Quotes - Page 6

• Great warriors, like great earthquakes, are principally remembered for the mischief they have done.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Warrior, Greatness, Earthquakes

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• Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

  Frances Wright

  Men, Noise, Fame

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• Here is one of the points about this planet which should be remembered; into every penetrable corner of it, and into most of the impenetrable corners, the English will penetrate. They are like that; born invaders. They cannot stay at home.

  Rose Macaulay

  Home, England, Born

  1926 Crewe Train, pt.1, ch.1.

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• Why are our joys remembered more bitter than our woes?

  Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

  Joy, Woe, Bitter

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• Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.

  George Canning

  Party, Exercise, Practice

  George Canning (1842). “Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches”, p.533

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• The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spring, Past, Remembrance

  Oliver Cromwell, Thomas Carlyle (1859). “Oliver Cromwell's Letters and Speeches: Including the Supplement to the Past Edition : with Elucidations”, p.9

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• How we delight to build our recollections upon some basis of reality,--a place, a country, a local habitation! how the events of life, as we look back upon them, have grown into the well-remembered background of the places where they fell upon us! Here is some sunny garden or summer lane, beautified and canonized forever, with the flood of a great joy; and here are dim and silent places,--rooms always shadowed and dark to us, whatever they may be to others,--where distress or death came once, and since then dwells forevermore.

  Washington Irving

  Summer, Country, Dark

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• It must always be remembered that all laws are naturally and inevitably evolved by the strongest force in a community, and in the last analysis made for the protection of the dominant class.

  Clarence Darrow

  Law, Class, Community

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “Crime: Its Cause and Treatment”, p.79, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• History has to judge every man who served. I don't know how they're going to treat me. I may be the worst S.O.B. that ever came down the pike. But I won't lose any sleep over it. I just like to be remembered as an honest person who tried.

  Barry Goldwater

  Sleep, Men, Judging

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• Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Mother, Blessed, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Greenough Thayer Shedd (1854). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.264

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• The misery of human life is made up of large masses, each separated from the other by certain intervals. One year the death of a child; years after, a failure in trade; after another longer or shorter interval, a daughter may have married unhappily; in all but the singularly unfortunate, the integral parts that compose the sum-total of the unhappiness of a man's life are easily counted and distinctly remembered.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Daughter, Children, Men

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.1054, Delphi Classics

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• Knowing that others have gone through similar tragedies may be a help, but it should be remembered that every tragedy is not only commonplace but also unique.

  Judith Martin

  Unique, Knowing, Tragedy

  Judith Martin (1996). “Miss Manners Rescues Civilization: From Sexual Harassment, Frivolous Lawsuits, Dissing, and Other Lapses in Civility”, Crown

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• I think in the years to come what Reagan will be remembered for is that he had the chance to stop the plague and he chose not to because the 'right people' were dying.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Thinking, Years, People

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.395, Bantam

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• I do not hesitate to say that the road to eminence and power, from an obscure condition, ought not to be made too easy, nor a thing too much of course. If rare merit be the rarest of all things, it ought to pass through some sort of probation. The temple of honor ought to be seated on an eminence. If it be open through virtue, let it be remembered, too, that virtue is never tried but by some difficulty and some struggle.

  Edmund Burke

  Struggle, Greatness, Honor

  Edmund Burke (1790). “Reflections on the Revolution in France, and on the proceedings in certain societies in London, relative to that event. In a letter intended to have been sent to a gentleman in Paris ... The seventh edition”, p.74

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• Then the song of a whitethroat, pure and ethereal, with the dreamy quality of remembered joy.

  Rachel Carson

  Song, Joy, Quality

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

  Marsha Norman

  Art, Generations, Culture

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• A few words worthy to be remembered suffice to give an idea of a great mind. There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work, a simplicity so finished and so perfect that it equals in merit and in excellence a large and glorious composition.

  Joseph Joubert

  Essence, Ideas, Giving

  Joseph Joubert (1867). “Some of the "Thoughts" of Joseph Joubert”, p.150

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• To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes to the Gulf, stand upon the immutable and everlasting principles of equal and exact justice. The days of unrequited labor are numbered with the past. Fugitive slave laws are only remembered as relics of that barbarism which John Wesley pronounced "the sum of all villainies," and whose knowledge of its blighting effects was matured by his travels in Georgia and the Carolinas.

  Horace Mann

  Past, Lakes, Law

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• If you ask me how I want to be remembered, it is as a winner.

  Walter Payton

  Nfl, Want, Winner

  Walter Payton (2001). “Never Die Easy: The Autobiography of Walter Payton”, Random House Incorporated

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• I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals.

  Oscar Wilde

  Food, Should Have, Cooking

  Oscar Wilde (2004). “The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings”, p.270, Penguin

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• I don't care if someone remembered me. Life is for living and memories for those who we leave behind.

  Jared Leto

  Memories, Care, Life Is

  Source: jaredlover.tumblr.com

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• O happy, happy morning! O dear, familiar place! / O warm, sweet tears of Heaven, fast falling on my face! / O well-remembered, rainy wind, blow all my care away, / That I may be a child again this blissful morn of May.

  Celia Thaxter

  Sweet, Morning, Children

  Celia Thaxter (1874). “Poems”, p.126

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• the smell of lilacs crept poignantly into the room like a remembered spring.

  Margaret Millar

  Spring, Smell, Rooms

  Margaret Millar (2015). “Vanish in an Instant”, p.33, Soho Press

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• Curious, how one remembered Christmas. Perhaps because other days might appeal to the head, but this one appealed to the heart.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Christmas, Heart, Might

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• Thousands of men breathe, move, and live; pass off the stage of life and are heard of no more. Why? They did not a particle of good in the world; and none were blest by them, none could point to them as the instrument of their redemption; not a line they wrote, not a word they spoke, could be recalled, and so they perished--their light went out in darkness, and they were not remembered more than the insects of yesterday. Will you thus live and die, O man immortal? Live for something.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Moving, Men, Light

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