QOTD category archive

Patricia Neal, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

John Boynton Priestley, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

As we read the school reports on our children, we realize a sense of relief that can rise to delight that, thank Heaven, nobody is reporting in this fashion on us.

Francis Bacon, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

Heywood Broun, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

For truth there is no deadline.

Henry David Thoreau, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles.

Epicurus:

Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempest.

Russel Honore:

America needs to get over it. We can’t control everything. We can’t control the storms.

Mark Twain, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Malcolm Forbes, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

If you’re looking for perfection, look in the mirror. If you find it there, expect it elsewhere.

Afterthought:

A number of my leftie friends with Firebagger tendencies might try out this advice.

Walter Bagehot, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

Alban W. Barkley:

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.

Henry A. Wallace:

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

Jean-Jacques Rosseau:

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Fiorello LaGuardia:

It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me – I never retreat.

Al Capp:

The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke.

Robert F. Kennedy, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.

Napoleon Bonaparte, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.

George Orwell:

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.

Edith Hamilton, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Myths are early science, the result of men’s first trying to explain what they saw around them.

Carolyn Wells, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.