Quotes by American Authors - Page 106

It's pleasant to hear these nice words while I'm still alive. I'd rather have the taffy than the epitaphy.
Chauncey Depew
Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
Benjamin Franklin
Nobody roots for Goliath.
Wilt Chamberlain
Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.
Wendell Phillips
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.
Thomas Jefferson
Power will intoxicate the best hearts as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
Walter Colton
Macho does not prove mucho.
Zsa Zsa Gabor
The illegal we do immediately the unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
Power corrupts the few while weakness corrupts the many.
Eric Hoffer
Force is never more operative than when it is known to exist but is not brandished.
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The first principle of a civilized state is that the power is legitimate only when it is under contract.
Walter Lippmann
Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
Noah Webster
Power never takes a back step - only in the face of more power.
Malcolm X
The best effect of fine persons is felt after we have left their presence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Responsibility n: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God Fate Fortune Luck or one's neighbour. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.
Ambrose Bierce
Power in America today is control of the means of communication.
Theodore White
People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced.
T.S Eliot
Never doubt that a small group of committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is life near the bone where it is sweetest.
Henry David Thoreau
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature but to the injustice of man.
Henry George
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Over the hill to the poor-house I'm trudgin' my weary way.
Will Carleton
Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.
George Gilder
The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character-building value of privation for the poor.
J. K. Galbraith
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F Kennedy
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
Eric Hoffer
The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.
Eugene O'Neill
There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
Spencer Tracy
Poverty - one thing money can't buy.
Lynwood L. Giacomini
Think of your forefathers! Think of your posterity!
John Quincy Adams
If we love our country we should also love our countrymen.
Ronald Reagan
If it's true that men are such beasts this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.
Doris Day
Man has bought brains but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king.
Emma Goldman
I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants.
A. Whitney Brown
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
Walt Disney
Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.
George Washington Carver
When a man is small he loves and hates food with a ferocity which soon dims. At six years old his very bowels will heave when such a dish as creamed carrots or cold tapioca appear before him.
M.F.K. Fisher
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
Mae West
I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.
Donna Douglas
Love for a dog during childhood is one of the deepest and purest emotions we are ever likely to have and it remains with us for the rest of our lives. For some people their first experience with love is with a dog. The fact that the dog returns the love so fiercely so openly so unambivalently is for many children a unique and lasting experience.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.
John Grogan
Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us yes but they haven't been true to themselves.
Clarence Day
Skill to do comes of doing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.
Louis L'Amour
The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible-and achieve it generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience the larger whole is primarily beautiful.
Gregory Bateson
Failure is impossible.
Susan B. Anthony
To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W Clement Stone
One should ... be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
We have a problem. "Congratulations." But it's a tough problem. "Then double congratulations."
W Clement Stone
I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.
Frank Hughes
Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.
Grace Paley
I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes.
Sara Teasdale
Being an optimist after you've got everything you want doesn't count.
Kin Hubbard
Knock the "t" off the "can't."
George Reeves
Practice being excited.
Bill Foster
I'm not overweight I'm just nine inches too short.
Shelley Winters