Quotes to inspire and reflect

Coolidge is dead"How could they tell?

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other.

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to Somebody Else. Will Rogers, Illiterate Digest (1924), "Warning to Jokers: lay off the prince" An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

There are more fools in the world than there are people.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it

In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag. W.H.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

There is a time for departure even when there is no certain place to go.

If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success.

The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Doubts are crueler than the worst of truths.

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.

Hatred is the anger of the weak.

Intelligence is nothing without delight.

I agree with everything you say, but I would attack to the death your right to say it.

In solitude especially do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. Thomas Babington Macaulay #4885 People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right

Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts.

The computer is a moron.

This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

I have too many fantasies to be a housewife. I guess I am a fantasy.

I am treating you as my friend asking you share my present minuses in the hope I can ask you to share my future pluses.

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen --- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery --- just stark me.