Quotable Quotes -2

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)

Science is built with facts as a house is with stones--but a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.
Jules Henri Poincare (1854-1912)

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

God gives every bird his worm, but he does not throw it into the nest.
Swedish proverb

Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.
Benjamin Jowett (1817-1893)

They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams (1838-1918)

Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming: Wow!! What a ride!
Anonymous

They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth.
Plato, philosopher (427-347 BC)

They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. They're not laughing now.
Bob Monkhouse, comedian (1928-2003)

It is not giving children more that spoils them; it is giving them more to avoid confrontation.
John Gray, author (b. 1951)

Sometimes I need what only you can provide: your absence.
Ashleigh Brilliant

The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy.
Antoine de Rivarol, epigrammatist (1753-1801)

A politician is a man who thinks of the next election; while the statesman thinks of the next generation.
James Freeman Clarke, preacher and author (1810-1888)

A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist (1904-1987)

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (1869-1948)

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, writer (1613-1680)

Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather. John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.
Henry Fielding, author (1707-1754)

an earlier post on quotes is here