Quotes by American Authors - Page 130

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.
James Russell Lowell
Hold your head high stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes but morning comes. ... Keep hope alive.
Jesse Jackson
For the mind disturbed the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.
Edwin Way Teale
Out of the scabbard of the night By God's hand drawn Flashes his shining sword of light And lo the dawn!
Frank Dempster Sherman
Now the frosty stars are gone: I have watched them one by one Fading on the shores of Dawn. Round and full the glorious sun Walks with level step the spray Through his vestibule of Day.
Bayard Taylor
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?
Thornton Wilder
It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck
Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
Alice Hawthorne
I never did or countenanced in public life a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith having never believed there was one code of morality for a public and another for a private man.
Thomas Jefferson
Morality is a private and costly luxury.
Henry Brooks Adams
The man who is anybody and who does anything is surely going to be criticized vilified and misunderstood. This is part of the penalty for greatness and every man understands too that it is no proof of greatness.
Elbert Hubbard
Moral courage is a more rare commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
Robert F. Kennedy
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. So aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau
You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
Henry David Thoreau
What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
Henry David Thoreau
This world is white no longer and it will never be white again.
James Baldwin
Most people sell their souls and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.
Logan Pearsall Smith
You've got to be brave and you've got to be bold. Brave enough to take your chance on your own discrimination - what's right and what's wrong what's good and what's bad.
Robert Frost
In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
Jacques Barzun
Quality - in its classic Greek sense - how to live with grace and intelligence with bravery and mercy.
Theodore H. White
It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
Adlai Stevenson
The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin with a grin.
Ogden Nash
One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame we have killed off so much real shame as well.
Louis Kronenberger
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.
H.L. Mencken
In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.
Mark Twain
An improper mind is a perpetual feast.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds not stones are the true monuments of the great.
John Lothrop Motley
Oh the lovely fickleness of an April day!
W. H. Gibson
And what is so rare as a day in June? Then if ever come perfect days Then Heaven tries earth if it be in tune And over it softly her warm ear lays.
James Russell Lowell
October turned my maple's leaves to gold The most are gone now here and there one lingers Soon these will slip from out the twig's weak hold Like coins between a dying miser's fingers.
T. B. Aldrich
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
Henry David Thoreau
Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
William Lowndes
The almighty dollar that great object of universal devotion throughout our land seems to have no genuine devotees in these peculiar villages.
Washington Irving
Never ask of money spent Where the spender thinks it went. Nobody was ever meant To remember or invent What he did with every cent.
Robert Frost
If you would know the value of money go and try to borrow some.
Benjamin Franklin
Another good thing about being poor is that when you are seventy your children will not have you declared legally insane in order to gain control of your estate.
Woody Allen
Money won't buy happiness but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.
Bill Vaughan
When asked to borrow money: "I'll see what my lawyer says. . . . And if he says yes I'll get another lawyer."
W.C.Fields
Money can't buy happiness but it will certainly get you a better class of memories.
Ronald Reagan
The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.
Doug Larson
To make money buy some good stock hold it until it goes up and then sell it. If it doesn't go up don't buy it.
Will Rogers
It doesn't matter if you're rich or poor as long as you've got money.
Joe E. Lewis
Mommy we're not going to be poor again are we? "Not as long as you have that rare blood type."
Brett Butler
There's another advantage in being poor. The doctor will cure you faster.
Jacob Braude
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W.C.Fields
The rich aren't like us they pay less taxes.
Peter De Vries
Right now I have enough money to last me the rest of my life - unless I buy something.
Jackie Mason
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with $10 million are no happier than people with $9 million.
Hobart Brown
When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars: "I would try to find the person that lost it and if he was poor - I'd give it back."
Yogi Berra
If you like easygoing monogamous men stay away from billionaires.
Rita Rudner
They make money the old-fashioned way. They inherit it.
Brian Morgan
Gentlemen prefer bonds.
Andrew Mellon
Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
Gottfried Reinhardt
Money is always there but the pockets change it is not in the same pockets after a change and that is all there is to say about money.
Gertrude Stein
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing.
Billy Rose
Money it turned out was exactly like sex you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
James Baldwin
I never been in no situation where havin' money made it any worse.
Clinton Jones
Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a gentleman.
Mark Twain