Quotes by American Authors - Page 31

Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
No nation is drunken where wine is cheap and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth the only antidote to the bane of whiskey.
Thomas Jefferson
Victory - a matter of staying power.
Elbert Hubbard
You have to pay the price - but if you do you can only win.
Frank Leahy
Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not nothing is more common than unsuccessful men of talent. Genius will not unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
Calvin Coolidge
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
Mignon McLaughlin
The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.
Henry Ward Beecher
Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
Tennessee Williams
Do what you can with what you have where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing and no one can destroy the Chinese people. They are relentless survivors.
Pearl Buck
An undutiful Daughter will prove an unmanageable Wife.
Benjamin Franklin
The world loves a spice of wickedness.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We all have flaws and mine is being wicked.
James Thurber
Half of the harm that is done in this world Is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm - but the harm does not interest them.
T.S Eliot
When we do evil We and our victims Are equally bewildered.
W.H. Auden
April is the crudest month breeding Lilacs out of the dead land mixing Memory and desire stirring Dull roots with spring rain.
T.S Eliot
Go West young man and grow up with the country.
Horace Greeley
Out where the handclasp's a little stronger Out where the smile dwells a little longer That's where the West begins.
Arthur Chapman
Oh what a blamed uncertain thing This pesky weather is It blew and snew and then it thew And now by jing it's friz.
Philander Johnson
I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.
John Burroughs
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance arms us with terrible freedom so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man reads his dreams for his self-knowledge yet not the details but the quality. What part does he play in them - a cheerful manly part or a poor drivelling part? However monstrous and grotesque their apparitions they have a substantial truth.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wealth of nations is men not silk and cotton and gold.
Richard Hovey
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.
Henry George
If you would be wealthy think of saving as well as of getting.
Benjamin Franklin
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his life-time for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
Wealth is not his that has it but his who enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin
Prosperity is just around the corner.
Herbert Hoover
If you see yourself as prosperous you will be. If you see yourself as continually hard up that is exactly what you will be.
Robert Collier
The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
John D. Rockefeller
Sometimes when you have everything you can't really tell what matters.
Christina Onassis
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin
It is good to have things that money can buy but it is also good to check up once in awhile and be sure we have the things money can't buy.
George Horace Lorimer
It's time we put thoughts of lack behind us. It's time for us to discover the secrets of the stars to sail to an uncharted land to open up a new heaven where our spirits can soar.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
True abundance is not about gathering more things it's about touching the place in us that is connected to the divine source of abundance so that we know what we need in the moment will be provided.
Mary Manin Morrissey
I wish to become rich so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little like those kind-hearted fat benevolent people do.
Mark Twain
I was born into it and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there like air or food or any other element. The only question with wealth is what you do with it.
John D. Rockefeller
I have no complex about wealth. I have worked hard for my money producing things people need. I believe that the able industrial leader who creates wealth and employment is more worthy of historical notice than politicians or soldiers.
Paul Getty
I have enough money to get by. I'm not independently wealthy just independently lazy I suppose.
Montgomery Clift
The wealth of a nation consists not in its mass of material things but in its system. The natural resources of South America are not inferior to those of the United States but the wealth of the two regions is vastly different. The land of India is far richer than that of Japan but the comparative wealth of the two nations is reversed.
George Brockway
I am opposed to millionaires but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark Twain
We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few but we can't have both.
Louis D. Brandeis
The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are few sorrows however poignant in which a good income is of no avail.
Logan Pearsall Smith
It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Ez for war I call it murder - There you hev it plain and flat I don't want to go no furder Than my Testyment for that.
James Russell Lowell
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln
Modern warfare is an intricate business about which no one knows everything and few know very much.
Frank Knox
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored: He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword: His truth is marching on.
Julia Ward Howe
War is as much a punishment to the punisher as to the sufferer.
Thomas Jefferson
By the rude bridge that arched the flood Their flag to April's breeze unfurl'd Here once the embattl'd farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We give up the fort when there's not a man left to defend it.
General Croghan
General Taylor never surrenders.
Thomas L. Crittenden
What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man.
William Ellery Channing
War is the science of destruction.
John S.C. Abbott
There will be no veterans of World War III.
Walter Mondale
There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.
William T. Sherman
There are no atheists in the foxholes.
William Thomas Cummings
It simply is not true that war never settles anything.
Felix Frankfurter
There never was a good war or a bad peace.
Benjamin Franklin
War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.
John F Kennedy