Quotes by American Authors - Page 34

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau
Every emancipation has in it the seeds of a new slavery and every truth easily becomes a lie.
J. F. Stone
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please you can never have both.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
For my part whatever anguish of spirit it may cost I am willing to know the whole truth - to know the worst and provide for it.
Patrick Henry
Rough work iconoclasm but the only way to get at the truth.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Don't be consistent but be simply true.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
What a myth never contains is the critical power to separate its truth from its errors.
Walter Lippman
Truth is a child of Time
Don Ford
Too much truth Is uncouth.
Franklin P. Adams
The truth is cruel but it can be loved and it makes free those who have loved it.
George Santayana
No one means all he says and yet very few say all they mean.
Henry Adams
Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
Edgar Watson Howe
An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
Kahlil Gibran
Truth forever on the scaffold. Wrong forever on the throne.
James Russell Lowell
Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.
William Cullen Bryant
When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself as public property.
Thomas Jefferson
Government is a trust and the officers of the government are trustees and both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.
Henry Clay
Make yourself necessary to somebody.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is immortal error is mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy
I think that we may safely trust a good deal more than we do.
Henry David Thoreau
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
E B White
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion respect longing patience regret surprise and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
Kahlil Gibran
Love is always bestowed as a gift - freely willingly and without expectation. We don't love to be loved we love to love.
Leo Buscaglia
The truth [is] that there is only one terminal dignity�love. And the story of a love is not important�what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
Helen Hayes
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for being brave for risking everything for. And the trouble is if you don't risk everything you risk even more.
Erica Jong
To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.
David Viscott
A romp in the hay lingers like the first line of a song but your true love is the one you make a life with and write more than a line about you write a whole book.
Garrison Keillor
Love me without fear Trust me without questioning Need me without demanding Want me without restrictions Accept me without change Desire me without inhibitions For a love so free . . . Will never fly away.
Dick Sutphen
What the heart gives away is never gone.... It is kept in the hearts of others.
Robin St. John
True love is night jasmine a diamond in darkness the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles fashioned of fleecy clouds a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.
Jim Bishop
Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise the flexibility of the child the sensitivity of the artist the understanding of the philosopher the acceptance of the saint the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain.
Leo Buscaglia
True love brings up everything you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
Jennifer Aniston
Generally by the time you are Real most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all because once you are Real you can't be ugly except to people who don't understand.
Margery Williams
Though life is made up of mere bubbles 'Tis better than many aver For while we've a whole lot of troubles The most of them never occur.
Nixon Waterman
Little deeds of kindness little words of love Help to make earth happy like the heaven above.
Julia F. Carney
Woodman spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me And I'll protect it now.
George P. Morris
Poems are made by fools like me But only God can make a tree.
Joyce Kilmer
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
David Everett
This is the forest primeval.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The little Road says Go The little House says Stay And oh it's bonny here at home But I must go away.
Josephine P. Peabody
I am fevered with the sunset I am fretful with the bay For the wander-thirst is on me And my soul is in Cathay.
Richard Hovey
Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.
John Updike
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you for Paris is a movable feast.
Ernest Hemingway
(Airplanes) may kill you but they ain't likely to hurt you.
Satchel Paige
When you travel remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
Clifton Fadiman
Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations.
George Santayana
There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land again after a cheerful careless voyage.
Mark Twain
Travel is ninety per cent anticipation and ten per cent recollection.
Edward Streeter
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.
James Baldwin
My favourite thing is to go where I've never been.
Diane Arbus
No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby - so helpless and ridiculous.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Travel is fatal to prejudice bigotry and narrow-mindedness.
Mark Twain
I have travelled a good deal in Concord.
Henry David Thoreau
I like terra firma - the more firma the less terra.
George S. Kaufman
The time to enjoy a European trip is about three weeks after unpacking.
George Ade
The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
Mason Cooley
The American arrives in Paris with a few French phrases he has culled from a conversational guide or picked up from a friend who owns a beret.
Fred Allen
My heart is warm with the friends I make And better friends I'll not be knowing Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take No matter where it's going.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Lovers of air travel find it exhilarating to hang poised between the illusion of immortality and the fact of death.
Alexander Chase
In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.
Mark Twain