Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the soul and brain of man.

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?;"Clarence Darrow

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

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one.

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notices I have read with pleasure.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.

Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.

You can only be free if I am free.

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

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

History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it, and the second reeked claret.

There is no such thing as justice, in or out of court.

Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?

The trouble with law is lawyers.

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I'm beginning to believe it.

With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in man, than any other association of men.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.

There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

Firm and erect the Caledonian stood; Sound was his mutton, and his claret good; "Let him drink port!" the English statesman cried: He drank the poison, and his spirit died.

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.

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

History repeats itself; that's one of the things that's wrong with history.

He talked with more claret than clarity.

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of pleasure.

With all their faults, trade-unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed.

I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure-that is all that agnosticism means.

To think is to differ.

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever.

Chase after truth like hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat-tails.

The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure--that is all that agnosticism means.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

The law is a horrible business.

There is no such thing as justice--in or out of court.

Clarence Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit.

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment, to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure

The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the last half by our children.