Quotes by American Authors - Page 209

Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.
Joseph Wood Krutch
I'd rather have an inch of dog than miles of pedigree.
Dana Burnet
Cats - a standing rebuke to behavioural scientists . . . least human of all creatures.
Lewis Thomas
You have now learned to see That cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind.
T.S Eliot
The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper or his keeper's brother.
Evan Esar
Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man but it would deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain
If called by a panther Don't anther.
Ogden Nash
Dogs come when they are called cats take a message and get back to you.
Mary Bly
Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question every one should be serene slow-pulsed and calm.
Charles J. Ingersoll
When angry count four when very angry swear.
Samuel L. Clemens
Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.
W. R. Alger
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
Frank Moore Colby
Anger as soon as fed is dead - Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't get mad get even.
Robert F. Kennedy
Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller
A degenerate nobleman or one that is proud of his birth is like a turnip. There is nothing good of him but that which is underground.
Nicholas Murray Butler
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
F. D. Roosevelt
Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over but when the whole man has come over heart and thought and all the hyphen drops of its own weight out of his name.
Woodrow Wilson
I was born an American I live an American I shall die an American.
Daniel Webster
Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Douglas MacArthur
Thou too sail on O Shipof State! Sail on O Union strong and great! Humanity with all its fears With all the hopes of future years Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
America is a tune. It must be sung together.
Gerald Stanley Lee
Hail Columbia! happy land! Hail ye heroes! heavenborn band! Who fought and bled in Freedom's cause.
Joseph Hopkinson
America is a country of young men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
0 beautiful for patriot dream That sees beyond the years Thine alabaster cities gleam Undimmed by human tears! America! America! God shed his grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
Katharine Lee Bates
I think that New York is not the cultural centre of America but the business and administrative centre of American culture.
Saul Bellow
Washington is a place where men praise courage and act on elaborate personal cost-benefit calculations.
J. K. Galbraith
I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me.
Willard D. Vandiver
Stormy husky brawling City of the Big Shoulders.
Carl Sandburg
Pennsylvania the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.
J. J. Ingalls
I'm from Indiana the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union.
Thomas R. Marshall
America - the best poor man's country in the world.
William Allen
Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.
George Santayana
The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.
Joseph Wood Krutch
I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachussets she needs none. There she is. Behold her and judge for yourselves.
Daniel Webster
The swaggering underemphasis of New England.
Heywood Broun
A Bostonian - an American broadly speaking.
G. E. Woodberry
New England is a finished place. Its destiny is that of Florence or Venice not Milan while the American empire careens onward toward its predicted end ... it is the first American section to be finished to achieve stability in the conditions of its life. It is the first old civilization the first permanent civilization in America.
Bernard de Voto
A town that has no ceiling price A town of double-talk A town so big men name her twice Like so: 'N'Yawk N'Yawk.'
Christopher Morley
He speaks English with the flawless imperfection of a New Yorker.
Gilbert Millstein
The lusts of the flesh can be gratified anywhere it is not this sort of licence that distinguishes New York. It is rather a lust of the total ego for recognition even for eminence. More than elsewhere everybody here wants to be Somebody.
Sydney J. Harris
As for what you're calling hard luck - well we made New England out of it. That and codfish.
Stephen Vincent Benét
New York the nation's thyroid gland.
Christopher Morley
That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring citadel that bears the magic name of the Island of Manhattan.
Thomas Wolfe
Why if you're not in New York you are camping out.
Thomas W. Dewing
Good Americans when they die go to Paris.
Thomas Gold Appleton
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H.L. Mencken
The Englishman is under no constitutional obligation to believe that all men are created equal. The American agony is therefore scarcely intelligible like a saint's self-flagellation viewed by an atheist.
John Updike
America should care more for its poor and reform itself in other ways but even if it won't do those things it remains the least constrained society on earth.
Robert M. Adams
You say to your soldier 'Do this' and he does it. But I am obliged to say to the American 'This is why you ought to do this' and then he does it.
Baron von Steuben
In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. This is what makes America what it is.
Gertrude Stein
America once had the clarity of a pioneer axe.
Robert Osborn
In the United States 'First' and 'Second' class can't be painted on railroad cars for all passengers being Americans are equal and it would be 'unAmerican.' But paint 'Pullman' on a car and everyone is satisfied.
Owen Wister
When asked by an anthropologist what the Indians called America before the white man came an Indian said simply 'Ours.'
Vine Deloria
Americans have a special horror of letting things happen their own way without interference. They would like to jump down their stomachs digest the food and shovel the shit out.
William Burroughs
Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.
Lewis Mumford
Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
Ada Louise Huxtable
Delaware: a state that has three counties when the tide is out and two when it is in.
J. J. Ingalls