Quotes by Authors - Page 203

When you have decided what you believe what you feel must be done have the courage to stand alone and be counted.
Eleanor Roosevelt
What a man believes he will die for. What a man merely thinks he will change his mind about.
Anonymous
What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.
Henry Miller
Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.
Thomas Paine
Blue is true Yellow's jealous Green's forsaken Red's brazen White is love And black is death.
Anonymous
No grand idea was ever born in a conference but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
Richard Harkness
Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.
V.S. Pritchett
If Columbus had had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock.
Justice Arthur Goldberg
A camel is a horse designed by a committee.
Anonymous
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
Jonathan Swift
All will come out in the washing.
Miguel de Cervantes
If you would civilize a man begin with his grandmother.
Victor Hugo
A tablecloth restaurant is still one of the great rewards of civilization.
Harry Golden
This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper.
T.S Eliot
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.
Isaac Asimov
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
Let us humour if we can The vertical man Though we value none But the horizontal one.
W.H. Auden
Each new generation is a fresh invasion of savages.
Harvey Allen
If you would know and not be known live in a city.
Walter Colton
Paul said I am a man which am a Jew of Tarsus a city in Cilicia a citizen of no mean city.
Anonymous
Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit the stores are open late and thanks to television you can shop in bed.
Joan Rivers
I once saw a pin on a Delta Airlines employee and I asked him what the letters in Delta stand for. He said "Don't Expect Luggage To Arrive."
Adam Christing
Take a perfect day add six hours of rain and fog and you have instant London.
Anonymous
London: A place you go to get bronchitis.
Fran Lebowitz
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
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong and he said: "Yes: the little one does."
Mark Twain
I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached after traveling through Japan as well as countless hours reading studying and analyzing this fascinating culture is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.
Dave Barry
texan starting eternity: I never dreamed heaven would be so much like Texas. companion: Who said this was heaven?
Anonymous
A small town is usually divided by a railroad a main street two churches and a lot of opinions.
Anonymous
I have just returned from Boston it is the only sane thing to do if you find yourself up there.
Fred Allen
I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect but I still love him.
Woody Allen
A car is useless in New York essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.
Mignon McLaughlin
I have no respect for gangs today. None. They just drive by and shoot people. At least in the old days like in West Side Story the gangs used to dance with each other.
Robert G. Lee
Miami drivers will attempt to pass you inside a car wash.
Dave Barry
L.A. bumper sticker: Keep honking - I'm reloading.
Anonymous
There's nothing wrong with Southern California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.
Ross Macdonald
After years of mocking L.A. for its smog the people of Denver are now coughing out of the other side of their mouths.
Anonymous
L.A.'s large convenience stores are so big they can accommodate up to twenty armed robbers at one time.
Jay Leno
I hate Billings Montana. They have a fashion show at Sears Roebuck - no models. You open a catalog and point.
Joan Rivers
The tanned appearance of many New Englanders is not sunburn - it is rust.
Anonymous
Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death.
Mark Twain
The people of Seattle deny they get much rain while the rest of the country thinks of it as America's bladder.
Anonymous
There's a lot of nice things about Denver. I just don't for the life of me know what they are.
Judy Hampton
This summer one-third of the nation will be ill-housed ill-nourished and ill-clad. Only they call it a vacation.
Joseph Salak
The trouble with all these other countries is they're all being run by foreigners.
Anonymous
One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country the American dollar will fall like a stone.
Erma Bombeck
When we can't get away for a vacation we get the same feeling by staying home and tipping every person that smiles.
Susie Spanos
Circumstances alter cases.
Thomas Haliburton
The long arm of coincidence.
Anonymous
I never weary of great churches. It is my favourite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Division has done more to hide Christ from the view of men than all the infidelity that has ever been spoken.
George MacDonald
Cathedrals Luxury liners laden with souls Holding to the east their hulls of stone.
W.H. Auden
God rest ye little children let nothing you affright For Jesus Christ your Saviour was born this happy night Along the hills of Galilee the white flocks sleeping lay When Christ the Child of Nazareth was born on Christmas day.
Dinah Mulock Craik
0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
Phillips Brooks
If you go to church and like the singing better than the preaching that's not orthodox.
Edgar Watson Howe
Many a sober Christian would rather admit that a wafer is God than that God is a cruel and capricious tyrant.
Edward Gibbon
People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted and at seeing it practised.
Samuel Butler
Ethical man - a Christian holding four aces.
Mark Twain
It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.
George MacDonald