Wells Quotes - Page 7

• They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I insist that my flight stop. Preferably at an airport.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Food, Airports

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• A man may do very well with a very little knowledge, and scarce be found out in mixed company; everybody is so much more ready to produce his own, than to call for a display of your acquisitions.

  Charles Lamb

  Knowledge, Men, Acquisition

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.64

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• Things have their laws as well as men, and things refuse to be trifled with.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Law, Refuse

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.252, Harvard University Press

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• The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

  Plutarch

  Life, Men, Measure Of A Man

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's Complete Works”

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• Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Winning, Perfect, May

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson (2012). “Idylls of the King”, p.228, Courier Corporation

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• Man is physical as well as metaphysical, a thing of shreds and patches, borrowed unequally from good and bad ancestors, and a misfit from the start.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Misfits, Metaphysical

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.202, Graphic Arts Books

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• A woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinter legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to see it done at all.

  James Boswell

  Sarcastic, Dog, Done

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• He's liked, but he's not well liked.

  Arthur Miller

  Sarcastic, Salesman

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Miller Plays: 1: All My Sons; Death of a Salesman; The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge”, p.146, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Today's Uncle Tom doesn't wear a handkerchief on his head. This modern, twentieth-century Uncle Thomas now often wears a top hat. He's usually well-dressed and well-educated. He's often the personification of culture and refinement. The twentieth-century Uncle Thomas sometimes speaks with a Yale or Harvard accent. Sometimes he is known as Professor, Doctor, Judge, and Reverend, even Right Reverend Doctor. This twentieth-century Uncle Thomas is a professional Negro -by that I mean his profession is being a Negro for the white man.

  Malcolm X

  Uncles, Mean, Men

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• Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Prayer, Farewell

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.190, Wildside Press LLC

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• And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Wise, Religious, Light

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.518, Wildside Press LLC

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• Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Knowing, Administration

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.536, Wildside Press LLC

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• I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Religious, Party, Struggle

  Abraham Lincoln (2009). “The Portable Abraham Lincoln”, p.272, Penguin

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• The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they found implicit in the Bible's teachings of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.

  Ronald Reagan

  Bible, God, Religious

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly that civilized mankind finds itself at present in grave danger. In the totalitarian states it is the rulers themselves who strive actually to destroy that spirit of humanity. In less threatened parts it is nationalism and intolerance, as well as the oppression of the individuals by economic means, which threaten to choke these most precious traditions.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Mean, Eye

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.21, Open Road Media

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• As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences".

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Science, Thinking

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.50, Broadway Books

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• We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Order, Law

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private : Published by the Order of the Joint Committee of Congress on the Library, from the Original Manuscripts, Deposited in the Department of State”, p.139

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• Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Blessed, Imagination

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• Well aware that the opinions and belief of men depend not on their own will, but follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds; that Almighty God hath created the mind free, and manifested his supreme will that free it shall remain by making it altogether insusceptible of restraint; that all attempts to influence it by temporal punishments, or burthens, or by civil incapacitations, tend only to beget habits of hypocrisy and meanness, and are a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Religious, Men, Hypocrisy

  Thomas Jefferson (2011). “Jefferson on Freedom: Wisdom, Advice, and Hints on Freedom, Democracy, and the American Way”, p.34, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The experience of the United States is a happy disproof of the error so long rooted in the unenlightened minds of well meaning Christians, as well as in the corrupt hearts of persecuting Usurpers, that without a legal incorporation of religious and civil polity, neither could be supported. A mutual independence is found most friendly to practical Religion, to social harmony, and to political prosperity.

  James Madison

  Christian, Religious, Heart

  James Madison (1965). “The forging of American federalism: selected writings of James Madison”

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• Gold is the key, whatever else we try; and that sweet metal aids the conqueror in every case, in love as well as war.

  Moliere

  Sweet, Money, War

  Jean-Baptiste Moliere (2015). “Tartuffe and Other Plays”, p.80, Penguin

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• Nature never deserts the wise and pure; no plot so narrow, be but nature there; no waste so vacant, but may well employ each faculty of sense, and keep the heart awake to love and beauty.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Wise, Nature, Heart

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.35

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• We can see well into the past; we can guess shrewdly into the future, but that which is rolled up and muffled in impenetrable folds is today.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Future, Past, Optimism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “The Journals”

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• We look for some reward of our endeavors and are disappointed that not success, not happiness, not even peace of conscience, crowns our ineffectual efforts to do well. Our frailties are invincible, our virtues barren; the battle goes sore against us to the going down of the sun.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Optimism, Effort, Battle

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.452, e-artnow

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• The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Peace, Fall, Humility

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all-too-human”

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