Quotes by Authors - Page 148

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.
Thomas Fuller
It is always wise as it is also fair to test a man by the standards of his own day and not by those of another.
Odell Shepard
Thou art weighed in the balances and art found wanting.
Anonymous
Judges are apt to be naive simple-minded men.
O. W. Holmes II
Judges are but men and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality give it whatever other name you please.
David Dudley Field
Let the judges answer to the question of law and the jurors to the matter of fact.
Law Maxim
It is better that a judge should lean on the side of compassion than severity.
Miguel de Cervantes
Journalism has already come to be the first power in the land.
Samuel Bowles
On desperate seas long wont to roam Thy hyacinth hair they classic face Thy naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
Edgar Allan Poe
Love can be understood only "from the inside " as a language can be understood only by someone who speaks it as a world can be understood only by someone who lives in it.
Robert C. Solomon
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship tense and anxious groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line and you waited with beating heart for something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began only I was without compass or sounding line and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. "Light! Give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul and rhe light of love shone on me in that very hour.
Helen Keller
Out of love you can speak with straight fury.
Eudora Welty
If it is a virtue to love my neighbor as a human being it must be a virtue - and not a vice - to love myself since I am a human being too.
Erich Fromm
Relish love in your old age! Aged love is like aged wine it becomes more satisfying more refreshing more valuable more appreciated and more intoxicating!
Leo Buscaglia
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Wayne W. Dyer
Love is like playing the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
Anonymous
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde
Of all calamities this is the greatest.
Thomas Jefferson
All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.
Sir Francis Bacon
I've had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am.
Gerald Ford
The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.
Marya Mannes
Intelligence must follow faith never precede it and never destroy it.
Thomas à Kempis
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas.
Christopher Morley
Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.
John Naisbitt
There are innumerable instances suggesting that modern intellectuals do not believe themselves that they don't really believe what they say that they say certain things only in order to assure themselves that they possess opinions and ideas that are different from those that are entertained by the common herd of men.
John Lukacs
My body has certainly wandered a good deal but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.
Noël Coward
The brain is the citadel of sense perception.
Pliny the Elder
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Arthur Bloch
Think sideways!
Edward de Bono
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
Albert Camus
Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism.
Arthur R. M. Lower
If he can remember so many jokes With all the details that mold them Why can't he recall with equal skill All the times he told them!
Anonymous
When she told her doctor that she always wanted to keep her weight exactly the same as her IQ he gave her a lecture on anorexia.
Wendy Morgan
Every word she writes is a lie including and and the.
Mary McCarthy
Some people can carry a tune but they seem to stagger under the load.
Richard Armour
His voice is to entertainment what the kazoo is to classical music.
Anonymous
After a year of therapy my psychiatrist said to me "Maybe life isn't for everyone."
Larry Brown
Mr. Attlee is a very modest man. But then he has much to be modest about.
Winston Churchill
I take him to McDonald's just to watch him eat and see the numbers change.
Joan Rivers
I hope you live to be as old as your jokes.
Anonymous
I've just learned about his illness let's hope it's nothing trivial.
Irvin S. Cobb
Apparently he was not the sharpest quill on the porcupine if you get my drift.
Dave Barry
He loves to eat - he puts mayonnaise on an aspirin.
Joan Rivers
I'll give you an idea of what kind of a guy he was. St. Francis would have punched him in the mouth.
Gene Ferret
One of the surest signs of the Philistine is his reverence for the superior tastes of those who put him down.
Pauline Kael
Abuse a man unjustly and you will make friends for him.
Edgar Watson Howe
It takes your enemy and your friend working together to hurt you to the heart the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.
Mark Twain
He that flings dirt at another dirtieth himself most.
Thomas Fuller
Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.
Margot Asquith
I write out of instinct.
Jerome Weidman
We shall keep our horizon perfectly absolutely crystallinely open ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse.
John Mistletoe
Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it in place of dust.
Henry S. Haskins
Instinct is a powerful form of natural energy perhaps comparable in humans to electricity or even atomic energy in the mechanical world.
Margaret A. Ribble
I move on feeling and have learned to distrust those who don't.
Nikki Giovanni
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
Erica Jong
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
Anonymous
You must train your intuition-you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say what to decide.
Ingrid Bergman
Inspiration does not come like a bolt nor is it kinetic energy striving but it comes to us slowly and quietly and all the time.
Brenda Ueland