Authors Quotes
"Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young."
"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."
"There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he less savage than the other savages."
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
"I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s."
"I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much more of it."
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."
"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing you can do is keep your mind young."
"Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."
"There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man’s notion that he less savage than the other savages."
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
"I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man’s reasoning powers are not above the monkey’s."
"I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much more of it."
"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either."
"To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."
"Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."