Quotes by Editors - Page 2

If you knew how cowardly your enemy is you would slap him. Bravery is knowledge of the cowardice in the enemy.
Edgar Watson Howe
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Edward Weeks
Strong people are made by opposition like kites that go up against the wind.
Frank Harris
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
Out of the night that covers me Black as the Pit from pole to pole I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul.
W. E. Henley
It matters not how strait the gate How charged with punishments the scroll I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
W. E. Henley
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
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
It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.
Charles Péguy
I am the master of my fate I am the captain of my soul.
William E. Henley
God gives every bird its food but he does not throw it into the nest.
Josiah G. Holland
There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.
Thomas L. Masson
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
Cyril Connolly
Minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Age is totally unimportant. The years are really irrelevant. It's how you cope with them.
Shirley Lord
Your father used to say "Never give away your work. People don't value what they don't have to pay for."
Nancy Hale
It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.
Charles Dudley Warner
Next to genius is the power of feeling where true genius lies.
Sarah Josepha Hale
My unreality is chiefly this: I have never felt much like a human being. It's a splendid feeling.
Margaret Anderson
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.
Cyril Connolly
Wetenschap is wat wetenschappers doen - Science is what scientists do.
Dennis Flanagan
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
Shirley Lord
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
Edgar Watson Howe
Your readiest desire is your path to joy ... even if it destroys you.
Holbrook Jackson
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
After all what's a cult? It just means not enough people to make a minority.
The Globe and Mail
The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.
Cyril Connolly
A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.
Cyril Connolly
Half the unhappiness in the world is due to the failure of plans which were never reasonable and often impossible.
Edgar Watson Howe
Bland as a Jesuit sober as a hymn.
William Ernest Henley
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly
The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.
Caskie Stinnet
There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time and all things in succession. That which grows slowly endures.
J.G. Holland
Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
Simeon Strunsky
Pray devoutly but hammer stoutly.
Sir William Gurney Benham
He who ceases to pray ceases to prosper.
Sir William Gurney Benham
Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.
Charles G. Finney
Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.
Noah Webster
Short of genius a rich man cannot imagine poverty.
Charles Péguy
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
George Jean Nathan
Thoughts have power thoughts are energy. And you can make your world or break it by your own thinking.
Susan Taylor
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally.... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? ... You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
The life each of us lives is the life within the limits of our own thinking. To have life more abundant we must think in limitless terms of abundance.
Thomas Dreier
The world is a great mirror. It reflects back to you what you are. If you are loving if you are friendly if you are helpful the world will prove loving and friendly and helpful to you. The world is what you are.
Thomas Dreier
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
George Jean Nathan
Most people do not believe in anything very much and our greatest poetry is given to us by those that do.
Cyril Connolly
Before a painter puts a brush to his canvas he sees his picture mentally. ... If you think of yourself in terms of a painting what do you see? ... Is the picture one you think worth painting? . . . You create yourself in the image you hold in your mind.
Thomas Dreier
Dogs laugh but they laugh with their tails.
Max Eastman
A dog wags its tail with its heart.
Martin Buxbaum
The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Broad acres are a patent of nobility and no man but feels more of a man in the world if he have a bit of ground that he can call his own. However small it is on the surface it is 4000 miles deep and that is a very handsome property.
Charles Dudley Warner
A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.
Charles Péguy
Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.
James Hastings
A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Edgar Watson Howe
Not always the fanciest cake that's there Is the best to eat!
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
E. V. Lucas
And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.
Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains if we will only stop the waste and the idle useless regretting.
Arthur Brisbane
One must always tell what one sees. Above all which is more difficult one must always see what one sees.
Charles Péguy
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.
Cyril Connolly