Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 8

• I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Girl, Successful, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.53, Da Capo Press

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• We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables, mistaken imitation of Egyptian theories and customs, historical chronicles as dry as they are unreliable and miscellaneous poems, amatory, human and Jewish-national, which is rarely distinguished by beauties of the highest order but frequently by superfluity of expression, coarseness, bad taste, and genuine Oriental sensuality.

  Max Nordau

  Book, Echoes, Expression

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• There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Writing, Men, Guilt

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• The conflict of forces and the struggle of opposing wills are of the essence of our universe and alone hold it together.

  Havelock Ellis

  Struggle, Essence, Together

  Havelock Ellis (1939). “Morals, Manners, and Men”

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• Liberalism... is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Cry, Planets, Liberalism

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• Oh, one world at a time!

  Henry David Thoreau

  World

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• I find my joy of living in the fierce and ruthless battles of life, and my pleasure comes from learning something.

  August Strindberg

  Happiness, Joy, Battle

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• This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Democracy, Problem

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (2009). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”, p.56, Da Capo Press

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• Self-pity is... a sinkhole from which no rescuing hand can drag you because you have chosen to sink.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Self, Hands, Pity

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• Even the cry from the depths is an affirmation: Why cry if there is no hint of hope of hearing?

  Martin E. Marty

  Depth, Hints, Hearing

  Martin E. Marty (1993). “A Cry of Absence: Reflections for the Winter of the Heart”, Harper San Francisco

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• Whatever come we have to meet it.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

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• The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, in my opinion, on a miracle.

  Adolf Hitler

  Love, Two, People

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• The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.

  Claude Bissell

  Taken, Social, Disaster

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• Say what you will about Leona Helmsley, when it comes to standing trial, she's twice the man Jim Bakker is.

  David Letterman

  Men, Trials, He Man

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• In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. RALPH WALDO EMERSON, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks Greek architecture is the perfect flowering of geometry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Notebook, Morning, Men

  "Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1847-1848". Book by Ralph Waldo Emerson (p. 384), 1973.

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• It takes all sorts (to make a world

  Miguel de Cervantes

  World, Wind In The Willows, Variety

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Lesley Lipson (1998). “Exemplary Stories”, p.8, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Spare your breath to cool your porridge.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Porridge, Breaths, Spares

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “The History of the Ingenious Gentleman, Don Quixote of La Mancha”, p.96

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• Let us make hay while the sun shines.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Shining, Hay, Sun

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.152, Wordsworth Editions

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• There's a vast difference between having a carload of miscellaneous facts sloshing around loose in your head and getting all mixed up in transit, and carrying the same assortment properly boxed and crated for convenient handling and immediate delivery.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Differences, Facts, Delivery

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.60, Lulu.com

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• We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Character, Personality, Admire

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• We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

  John Dewey

  Practice, Liberty, Consciousness

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, James Gouinlock (2008). “John Dewey The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1925-1927: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and the Public and Its Problems”, p.160, SIU Press

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• Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Eight, Government, Listening

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.637, Lulu.com

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• The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

  Frederick William Faber

  Rocks, Talent, Buried

  Frederick William Faber (1866). “Notes on doctrinal and spiritual subjects”, p.343

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