Quotes by American Authors - Page 49

Would you persuade speak of interest not of reason.
Benjamin Franklin
Though old the thought and oft exprest 'tis his at last who says it best.
James Russell Lowell
The relationship of the toastmaster to the speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
Adlai Stevenson
Speak clearly if you speak at all Carve every word before you let it fall.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
None love to speak so much when the mood of speaking comes as they who are naturally taciturn.
Henry Ward Beecher
The windows of my soul I throw Wide open to the sun.
John Greenleaf Whittier
I loafe and invite my soul I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
Walt Whitman
Self is the only prison that can ever bind the soul.
Henry Van Dyke
The one thing in the world of value is the active soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
John Brown's body lies a mould'ring in the grave His soul goes marching on.
Thomas Brigham Bishop
There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm.
J. H. Vincent
Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed Loving the storm that sways her - I found more joy in sorrow Than you could find in joy.
Sara Teasdale
I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she But oh the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me.
Robert Browning Hamilton
Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
George Jackson
There are some men above grief and some men below it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sorrow makes us all children again.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters How well they understood Its human position how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
W.H. Auden
God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth That they might touch the hearts of men And bring them back to heaven again.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg
We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.
Tennessee Williams
It's a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.
Willie Sutton
We never touch but at points.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
There are three things a man must do alone. Be born die and testify.
James J. Walker
I want to see you shoot the way you shout.
Theodore Roosevelt
The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo No more on Life's parade shall meet The brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping-ground Their silent tents are spread And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.
Theodore O'Hara
But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate we cannot consecrate we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract.
Abraham Lincoln
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson
These families you know are our upper crust not upper ten thousand.
James Fenimore Cooper
Every man is a consumer and ought to be a producer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In order to stand well in the eyes of the community it is necessary to come up to a certain somewhat indefinite conventional standard of wealth.
Thorstein Veblen
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin
Only a few human beings should grow to the square mile they are commonly planted too close.
William T. Davis
Class is an aura of confidence that is being sure without being cocky. Class has nothing to do with money. Class never runs scared. It is self-discipline and self-knowledge. It's the sure-footedness that comes with having proved you can meet life.
Ann Landers
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Robert Frost
In any assembly the simplest way to stop the transacting of business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
Jacques Barzun
The cocktail party - a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite to dinner.
Charles Merrill Smith
The difference between our decadence and the Russians' is that while theirs is brutal ours is apathetic.
James Thurber
To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost
The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.
John F Kennedy
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor it cannot save the few who are rich.
John F Kennedy
Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.
Will Cuppy
The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals not having had time to acquire any new value for each other. We meet at meals three times a day and give each other a new taste of that old musty cheese that we are.
Henry David Thoreau
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasm tastes and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessor and to posterity.
Arthur Chapman
The true snob never rests there is always a higher goal to attain and there are by the same token always more and more people to look down upon.
Russell Lynes
A highbrow is a person educated beyond his intelligence.
Brander Matthews
Snobs talk as if they had begotten their ancestors.
Herbert Agar
It is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.
Woodrow Wilson
It's full of worth and goodness too with manly kindness blent It's worth a million dollars and it doesn't cost a cent.
Wilbur D. Nesbit
I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
Gerald Ford
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.
Jeff Valdez
Fatigue is the best pillow.
Benjamin Franklin
Over my slumber your loving watch keep - Rock me to sleep mother rock me to sleep.
Elizabeth Akers Allen
The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed and can't get there is the meanest feeling in the world.
Edgar Watson Howe
They (the blacks) had no right which the white man was bound to respect.
Roger B. Taney
They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak They are slaves who dare not be In the right with two or three.
James Russell Lowell
The man who gives me employment which I must have or suffer that man is my master let me call him what I will.
Henry George