" Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up. " ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥20SharePinTweet1 SharesLove Quotes
" In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥9SharePinTweet0 Shares
" American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics." ~ Noam Chomsky ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥21SharePinTweet0 SharesRainy Quotes
" If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time." ~ Noam Chomsky ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥7SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time." ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥21SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Let us swear while we may, for in Heaven it will not be allowed." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Make it a point to 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." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest. message to Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 16, 1901" ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥10SharePinTweet0 Shares
" In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. Autobiography, 1959" ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
