Quotes by Authors - Page 72

The great thing to learn about life is first not to do what you don't want to do and second to do what you do want to do.
Margaret Anderson
Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.
Thomas Jefferson
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.
Jonathan Swift
The pleasures of the rich are bought with the tears of the poor.
Thomas Fuller
A little house well filled a little land well tilled and a little wife well willed are great riches.
Anonymous
A reform is a correction of abuses a revolution is a transfer of power.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
Big Brother is watching you.
George Orwell
I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.
Thomas Jefferson
The times spat at me. I spit back at the times.
Andrei Voznesensky
It is not the prisoners who need reformation it is the prisons.
Oscar Wilde
It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.
Oscar Wilde
The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity sluggish and indomitable as a glacier will mitigate the most violent and depress the most exalted revolution.
T.S Eliot
In almost any society I think the quality of the non-conformists is like to be just as good as and no better than that of the conformists.
Margaret Mead
Thinkers prepare the revolution bandits carry it out.
Mariano Azuela
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the roots.
Henry David Thoreau
Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.
Eric Hoffer
Vengeance is sweet.
William Painter
In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy but in passing it over he is his superior.
Sir Francis Bacon
I try to learn one new thing a week to balance the one thing I forget a week but lately I forget three things a week.
Joseph Gies
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Two weeks is about the ideal length of time to retire.
Alex Comfort
When men reach their sixties and retire they go to pieces. Women just go right on cooking.
Gail Sheehy
The role of a retired person is no longer to possess one.
Simone de Beauvoir
Cessation of work is not accompanied by cessation of expenses.
Cato the Elder
Since our boss will be retiring soon it's been suggested that we give him a little momentum.
Anonymous
Our boss has been so successful he deserves to retire so that he can spend more time . . . with his servants.
Anonymous
Retirement: Twice as much husband half as much pay.
Anonymous
I'm going to spend it all. . . why leave it to our errors?
Brian Morgan
Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.
Laurence J. Peter
Leisure time is when your wife can't find you
Anonymous
The question isn't at what age I want to retire it's at what income.
George Foreman
Welcome death quoth the rat when the trap fell.
Thomas Fuller
A republican government is slow to move yet when once in motion its momentum becomes irresistible.
Thomas Jefferson
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.
Fisher Ames
Republics are ungrateful.
Anonymous
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P.G. Wodehouse
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's good only for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield
Apologize v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
Ambrose Bierce
A good life is the only religion.
Thomas Fuller
Men will wrangle for religion write for it fight for it die for it anything but - live it.
Walter Colton
There was never law or sect or opinion did so much magnify goodness as the Christian religion doth.
Sir Francis Bacon
Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.
Sophy Burnham
The world is my country all mankind are my brethren and to do good is my religion.
Thomas Paine
The world's shortest sermon: "When in doubt... don't!"
Anonymous
His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory.
Anonymous
Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.
Laurence J. Peter
Conscience gets a lot of credit that belongs to cold feet.
Anonymous
I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was.
Marsha Dobb
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me it's the parts that I do understand.
Mark Twain
As the little boy said to the Sunday School teacher after being told the reason we are on Earth is to help others: "Then what are the others here for?"
Anonymous
God created man and then woman but the atheist created himself.
Anonymous
If you can't be kind at least be vague.
David Powers
I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward.
Henny Youngman
The first Sunday I sang in the church choir two hundred people changed their religion.
Fred Allen
If there's a God why are there such things as famine and The Jerry Springer Show.
Wendy Morgan
God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
If I could only see one miracle just one miracle. Like a burning bush or the seas part or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.
Woody Allen
B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
Anonymous
The Bible tells us to love our neighbors and also to love our enemies probably because they are generally the same people.
G.K. Chesterton