What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings--they are so trite, so threadbare..., that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race and the man who orders his life according to their teaching cannot go far wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For youth is a frail thing, not unafraid. Firstly inclined to take what it is told.... Firstly inclined to lean. Greedy to give Faith tidy and total. To a total God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know I have the body of a weak, feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king--and of a King of England too, and thin...k foul scorn that Parma or Spain, or any prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm; to which, rather than any dishonour should grow by me, I myself will take up arms--I myself will be your general, judge, and rewarder of every one of your virtues in the field.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My loving people,--We have been persuaded by some that are careful of our safety, to take heed how we commit ourselves to armed mu...ltitudes for fear of treachery; but, I do assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faithful and loving people. Let tyrants fear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When at times the mob is swayed To carry praise or blame too far,... We may take something like a star To stay our minds on and be staid.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a muse...um and put them on display.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now we may have more preachers out there than we have drinkers. But a fellow told me a story one time about a man down in Kentucky... where they make bourbon. And he said you can take a jigger or two jiggers and get by all right. But if you try to take the whole bottle why you have lost what you started with. So don't try to take it too quick. And don't try to do all of it at once. I don't do much promising. I tell what my goals are and then I try to wrap it up and put a blue ribbon on it and get it delivered. We say put the coonskin on the wall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort?... Why do we have these accessories to normal living to live?... I mean, is there something wrong with society that's making us so pressurized, that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »