|
|
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
Topic: Action
Source: None
|
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
Topic: Art and Artists
Source: None
|
A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been a boy.
Topic: Boys
Source: None
|
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
Topic: Chastity
Source: None
|
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry; Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide; Take not Thy thunder from us, But take away our pride. From all that terror teaches, From lies of tongue and pen; From all the easy speeches That comfort cruel men; From sale and profanation Of honor and the sword; From sleep and from damnation, Deliver us, good Lord! Tie in a living tether The prince and priest and thrall; Bind all our lives together, Smite us and save us all; In ire and exultation Aflame with faith, and free, Lift up a living nation, A single sword to Thee.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
|
The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.
Topic: Cleverness
Source: None
|
Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.
Topic: Compromise
Source: None
|
"My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober.".
Topic: Country
Source: None
|
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
|
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms: it means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
Topic: Courage
Source: None
|
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Topic: Democracy
Source: None
|
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
Topic: Education
Source: None
|
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
Topic: Education
Source: None
|
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
Topic: Fame
Source: None
|
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
Topic: Fight
Source: None
|
Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not much good unless you can take a healthy view of it -- or, better still, feel a healthy indifference to it.
Topic: Hygiene
Source: None
|
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
Topic: Love
Source: None
|
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
Topic: Love
Source: None
|
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
Topic: Quarrel
Source: None
|
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
Topic: Quotation
Source: None
|
It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
Topic: Religion / Beliefs
Source: None
|
The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.
Topic: Retirement
Source: None
|
Ritual will always mean throwing away something: destroying our corn or wine upon the altar of our gods.
Topic: Ritual
Source: None
|
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead, but that the dead are living.
Topic: Tradition
Source: None
|
The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
Topic: Travel
Source: None
|
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
Topic: Truth
Source: None
|
Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Topic: Virtue
Source: None
|
The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.
Topic: Wonder
Source: None
|
No man knows he is young while he is young.
Topic: Youth
Source: None
|
