Quotes by Authors - Page 92

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.
Robert Keith Leavitt
He disliked emotion not because he felt lightly but because he felt deeply.
John Buchan
An intense feeling carries with it its own universe magnificent or wretched as the case may be.
Albert Camus
What our age lacks is not reflection but passion.
Søren Kierkegaard
Party honesty is party expediency.
Anonymous
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party I would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson
Oh has thou forgotten how soon we must sever? Oh hast thou forgotten this day we must part? It may be for years and it may be forever Oh why art thou silent thou voice of my heart?
Julia Crawford
It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.
Eric Hoffer
People should be free to find or make for themselves the kinds of educational experiences they want their children to have.
John Holt
Your children need your presence more than your presents.
Jesse Jackson
Who doesn't desire his father's death?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and in a sense tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother and to become fully independent.
Erich Fromm
The thing about having a baby is that thereafter you have it.
Jean Kerr
Whatever you would have your children become strive to exhibit in your own lives and conversation.
Lydia H. Sigourney
No matter how old a mother is she watches her middle-aged children for signs of improvement.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
A mother is a person who if she is not there when you get home from school you wouldn't know how to get your dinner and you wouldn't feel like eating it anyway.
Anonymous
Our sons who so easily recognize our errors and rightly denounce them will have to confess their own later on and they may be as bad as ours perhaps worse.
Bruce Hutchison
Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.
Anonymous
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
Evelyn Waugh
Diogenes struck the father when the son swore.
Robert Burton
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.
Clarence S. Darrow
Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.
Alvin Toffler
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
Christopher Lasch
A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.
Philip Roth
In this fool's paradise he drank delight
George Grabbe
When I look at a painting it isn't only the painting that I see but the thing that I am. If there is more in the painting than I am then I won't see it.
Ivan Eyre
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject rather does the person grow to look like his portrait.
Salvador Dalí
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.
John White
Painting n: the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic.
Ambrose Bierce
I cannot pretend to feel impartial about colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill
Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment woman accepts it as a natural heritage.
Anonymous
He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.
Jonathan Swift
Keep a thing seven years and you will find a use for it.
Anonymous
Our life on earth is and ought to be material and carnal. But we have not yet learned to manage our materialism and carnality properly they are still entangled with the desire for ownership.
E.M. Forster
I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.
Fred Allen
You got a harem of seventy girls you don't get to know any of them very well.
Billy Rose
Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination.
Jeraldine Saunders
Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Stripped of all their masquerades the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness rejection inferiority unmanageable anger illness and death.
Joshua L. Liebman
Fear has a large shadow but he himself is small.
J. Ruth Gendler
Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.
Sandy Koufax
Fear nothing for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons all sins into experience.
Katherine Tingley
All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.
Elizabeth Goudge
While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.
Audre Lorde
Better a fearful end than fear without end.
Anonymous
It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.
Phillip Mann
Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies.
Miguel de Cervantes
Considering how dangerous everything is nothing is really very frightening.
Gertrude Stein
I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly.
Oprah Winfrey
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus
Fear is the dark room in which negatives are developed.
Anonymous
Fear is uncertainty.
Eric Hoffer
Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
Arnold Glasow
Fear is the start of wisdom.
Miguel de Unamuno
Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind.
Sophie Tunnell
FEAR: False Evidence Appearing Real.
Anonymous
Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel Butler
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Anonymous
Fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.
Henry Link