Quotes by American Authors - Page 101

The best is the cheapest.
Benjamin Franklin
The object of punishment is prevention from evil it never can be made impulsive to good.
Horace Mann
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
Thomas Jefferson
Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.
Horace Mann
Of puns it has been said that those most dislike who are least able to utter them.
Edgar Allan Poe
The public be damned.
W. H. Vanderbilt
I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
John Bradshaw
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Sam Goldwyn
Depression is rage spread thin.
Paul Tillich
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Rollo May
The best cure for hypochondria is to forget about your own body and get interested in someone else's.
Goodman Ace
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
Caskie Stinnet
Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons but one out of one.
William Menninger
I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
Abraham Maslow
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
Laurence J. Peter
Those modern analysts they charge so much! In my day for five marks Freud himself would treat you. For ten marks he would treat you and press your pants. For fifteen marks Freud would let you treat him - that included a choice of any two vegetables.
Woody Allen
Psychiatrists classify a person as neurotic if he suffers from his problems in living and a psychotic if he makes others suffer.
Thomas Szasz
I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year then I'm going to Lourdes.
Woody Allen
The highest law gives a thing to him who can use it.
Henry David Thoreau
The instinct of ownership is fundamental in man's nature.
William James
There can be to the ownership of anything no rightful title which is not derived from the title of the producer and does not rest upon the natural right of the man to himself.
Henry George
Mine is better than ours.
Benjamin Franklin
I come from a State that raises corn and cotton and cock-leburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.
Willard D. Vandiver
You are all you will ever have for certain .
June Havoc
Get your facts first and then you can distort 'em as much as you please.
Mark Twain
Statistics are no substitute for judgement.
Henry Clay
The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm
Undertake not what you cannot perform but be careful to keep your promise.
George Washington
If you strike a thorn or rose Keep a-goin! If it hails or if it snows Keep a-goin! 'Tain't no use to sit and whine 'Cause the fish ain't on your line Bait your hook an' keep on tryin'. Keep a-goin!
Frank L. Stanton
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes to increase luxury and make sharper the contest between the House of Have and the House of Want progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
Henry George
Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
Occasionally we sigh for an earlier day when we could just look at the stars without worrying whether they were theirs or ours.
Bill Vaughan
The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
J.G. Holland
Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
Simeon Strunsky
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.
Wendell Phillips
Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.
James Thurber
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out.
James Bryant Conant
The simple faith in progress is not a conviction belonging to strength but one belonging to acquiescence and hence to weakness.
Norbert Wiener
Progress might have been all right once but it's gone on too long.
Ogden Nash
The century on which we are entering can be and must be the century of the common man.
Henry A. Wallace
The fundamental magic of flying is a miracle that has nothing to do with any of its practical purposes - purposes of speed accessibility and convenience - and will not change as they change.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Flight is the only true sensation that men have achieved in modern history.
James Dickey
Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.
Robert Moses
And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This world of ours is a new world in which the unit of knowledge the nature of human communities the order of society the order of ideas the very notions of society and culture have changed and will not return to what they have been in the past. What is new is new not because it has never been there before but because it has changed in quality.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
George Santayana
If it is to be It is up to me.
William H. Johnson
My agent gets 10 percent of everything I get except the blinding headaches.
Fred Allen
I hate being placed on committees. They are always having meetings at which half are absent and the rest late.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A male gynecologist is like an auto mechanic who has never owned a car.
Carrie Snow
When asked to contribute ten dollars to a lawyer's funeral I said: "Here's fifty. Bury five of them."
Melvin Helitzer
If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?
Calvin Trillin
I'm a concert pianist. That's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.
Oscar Levant
By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work twelve hours a day.
Robert Frost
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
Daniel Boorstin
An actor's a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.
Marlon Brando
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H.L. Mencken
She used to be a schoolteacher but she has no class now.
Fred Allen