Quotes by Writers - Page 20

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics chemistry or animal behaviour.
Joseph Wood Krutch
We should expect the best and the worst from mankind as from the weather.
Vauvenargues
I am a member of the rabble in good standing.
Westbrook Pegler
Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
Aldous Huxley
He is happiest be he king or peasant who finds peace in his home.
Goethe
Human history is in essence a history of ideas.
H.G.Wells
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas
History is just the portrayal of crimes and misfortunes.
Voltaire
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that History has to teach.
Aldous Huxley
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
Goethe
Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors.
Voltaire
One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.
Olin Miller
Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.
Elbert Hubbard
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
Charles Caleb Colton
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
Frank Tyger
Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
Denis Diderot
Charity begins at home and usually stays there.
Elbert Hubbard
Did universal charity prevail earth would be a heaven and hell a fable.
Charles Caleb Colton
We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.
Anne-Sophie Swetchine
The motto should not be: Forgive one another rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma Goldman
To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.
Frank A. Clark
A child is fed with milk and praise.
Mary Lamb
Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.
Vauvenargues
Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.
Baroness Edith Summerskill
Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.
Libby Gelman-Waxner
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Emma Goldman
He gives twice who gives promptly.
Publilius Syrus
Reform is born of need not pity.
Rebecca Harding Davis
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.
Sir Arthur Helps
Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.
Samuel Johnson
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We bear the world and we make it. ... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.
Olive Schreiner
There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.
Olive Schreiner
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair but after all the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
Herman Melville
He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.
Publilius Syrus
I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice it would start me up to a moment's life again.
Olive Schreiner
Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.
Elbert Hubbard
Great thoughts come from the heart.
Luc de Clapiers
The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Voltaire
Thank heaven I have given up smoking again! . . . God! I feel fit. A different man. Irritable moody depressed rude perhaps . . . but the lungs are fine.
A.P. Herbert
For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
Lily Tomlin
My doctor said I look like a million dollars - green and wrinkled.
Red Skelton
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
The head is always the dupe of the heart.
La Rochefoucauld
We love without reason and without reason we hate.
Jean-Frangois Regnard
Hatreds are the cinders of affection.
Walter Raleigh
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Cyril Connolly
I like a good hater.
Samuel Johnson
The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods.
Robert Service
Happiness lies first of all in health.
George William Curtis
We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we suppose ourselves to be.
La Rochefoucauld
Everyone speaks of it few know it.
Mme. Jeanne P. Roland
Such is the state of life that none are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing when we have made it the next wish is to change again.
Samuel Johnson
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy others look at what I have and think me happy.
Joseph Roux
I look better feel better make love better and I'll tell you something else ... I never lied better.
George Burns
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Bernard de Fontenelle
No man is happy unless he believes he is.
Publilius Syrus
When unhappy one doubts everything when happy one doubts nothing.
Joseph Roux