Quotes by American Authors - Page 173

The enslaver is enslaved the hater harmed.
Marianne Moore
Dwelling on the negative simply contributes to its power.
Shirley Maclaine
To oppose something is to maintain it.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Resentment is the "number one" offender. It destroys more alcoholics than anything else. From it stem all forms of spiritual disease for we have been not only mentally and physically ill we have been spiritually sick.
Alcoholics Anonymous
Hatred is a death wish for the hated not a life wish for anything else.
Audre Lorde
Any man can seek revenge it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.
Arthur J. Rehrat
Nothing's easier than believing we understand experiences we've never had.
Gwen Bristow
Speak not against anyone whose burden you have not weighed yourself.
Marion Zimmer Bradley
People are more than the worst thing they have ever done in their lives.
Helen Prejean
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.
Christina Baldwin
Keeping score of old scores and scars getting even and one-upping always make you less than you are.
Malcolm Forbes
One may have been a fool but there's no foolishness like being bitter.
Kathleen Norris
As long as you don't forgive who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.
Isabelle Holland
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.
Sydney J. Harris
Once a woman has forgiven a man she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.
Kin Hubbard
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the crudest words.
Dr. Joyce Brothers
I can forgive but I cannot forget is only another way of saying "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.
Zoe Akins
The stupid neither forgive nor forget the naive forgive and forget the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
How we remember what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Christina Baldwin
Who is the Forgotten Man? He is the clean quiet virtuous domestic citizen who pays his debts and his taxes and is never heard of out of his little circle.
William Graham Sumner
Force is all-conquering but its victories are short-lived.
Abraham Lincoln
The right to be a cussed fool Is safe from all devices human It's common (ez a gin'I rule) To every critter born of woman.
James Russell Lowell
Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority for any town?
Mark Twain
It is said that a wise man who stands firm is a statesman and a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.
Adlai Stevenson
Nature never makes any blunders when she makes a fool she means it.
Josh Billings
A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.
Wilson Mizner
There are some people that if they don't know you can't tell 'em.
Louis Armstrong
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
Mark Twain
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
J. K. Galbraith
A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the whole world than any sermon.
Arthur Pendenys
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Clifton Fadiman
A hungry man is not a free man.
Adlai Stevenson
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti - it requires so much attention.
Christopher Morley
Toots Shore's restaurant is so crowded nobody goes there anymore.
Yogi Berra
Hunger is not debatable.
Harry Hopkins
Never eat more than you can lift.
Miss Piggy
Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
Fran Lebowitz
At the end of every diet the path curves back toward the trough.
Mason Cooley
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catch'd And count their chickens ere they're hatch'd.
Nicholas Murray Butler
Baby bye Here's a fly Let us watch him you and I. How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls.
Theodore Tilton
When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd And the great star early droop'd in the western sky the night I mourn'd - and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring.
Walt Whitman
Say it with flowers.
Patrick F. O'Keefe
Of what are you afraid my child? inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh sir! the flowers they are wild " replied the timid creature.
Peter Newell
Flowers may beckon towards us but they speak toward heaven and God.
Henry Ward Beecher
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses.
Dorothy Parker
Shoot if you must this old gray head But spare your country's flag she said.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Your flag and my flag And how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-reed The stripes forever gleam Snow-white and soul-white - The good forefathers' dream Sky-blue and true-blue with stars to gleam aright - The gloried guidon of the day a shelter through the night.
Wilbur D. Nesbit
Yes we'll rally round the flag boys we'll rally once again Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom We will rally from the hillside we'll gather from the plain Shouting the battle-cry of Freedom.
George F. Root
Oh! say does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Francis Scott Key
The flag of our Union forever!
George P. Morris
Cheers for the sailors that fought on the wave for it Cheers for the soldiers that always were brave for it Tears for the men that went down to the grave for it Here comes the Flag!
Arthur Macy
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air She tore the azure robe of night And set the stars of glory there.
Joseph Rodman Drake
If any one attempts to haul down the American flag shoot him on the spot.
John A. Dix
Feast and your halls are crowded Fast and the world goes by.
Ella Wheeler Wilc
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
F. D. Roosevelt
Fear always springs from ignorance.
Ralph Waldo Emerson