Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.

How could they tell?;"Dorothy Parker, upon hearing that President Coolidge had died

Changing a college curriculum is like moving a graveyard--you never know how many friends the dead have until you try to move them!

More people out of work leads to higher unemployment.`

It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow.

Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.

Nothing in the world will take away persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than an unsuccessful man with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

The business of America is business and the chief ideal of the American people is idealism.

The business of the country is business.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.

There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.

A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of the pain-threshold, will bring the worm at the core of all our usual springs of delight into full view, and turn us into melancholy metaphysicians.

He's the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth, Vermont. [On Calvin Coolidge]

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

What we need in appointive positions are men of knowledge and experience with sufficient character to resist temptations.

You can't know too much, but you can say too much.

I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.

No one every listened themselves out of a job.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country.

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

All Coolidge had to do in 1924 was to keep his mean trap shut, to be elected. All Harding had to do in 1920 was repeat ''Avoid foreign entanglements.'' All Hoover had to do in 1928 was to endorse Coolidge. All Roosevelt had to do in 1932 was to point to Hoover.

Civilization and profits go hand in hand.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

Ultimately property rights and personal rights are the same thing.

If you see 10 troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that 9 will run into the ditch before they reach you.

Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated body of corresponding laws.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others; or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.

No man ever listened himself out of a job.

We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

We do not need more material development; we need more spiritual development. We do not need more intellectual power; we need more moral power. We do not need more knowledge; we need more character. We do not need more government; we need more culture. We do not need more law; we need more religion. We do not need more of the things that are seen/ we need more or the things that are unseen.

Calvin Coolidge looks as if he had been weaned on a pickle.

Susie if you want to see your doll again, leave $100 in this envelope by the tree out front. Do not call the police you CANNOT trace us, you CANNOT find us. Sincerely, Calvin.

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.

Calvin : You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. Hobbes : What mood is that? Calvin : Last-minute panic.

Never go out to meet trouble. If you will just sit still, nine cases out of ten someone will intercept it before it reaches you.