Quotes to inspire and reflect

Time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

I would rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.

On thinking about Hell, I gather My brother Shelley found it was a place Much like the city of London. I Who live in Los Angeles and not in London Find, on thinking about Hell, that it must be Still more like Los Angeles.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

Through and through the world is infested with quantity. To talk sense is to talk quantities, It is no use saying the nation is large- how large? It is no uses aying that radium is scarce- how scarce? You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.

We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

Nobel prize money is a lifebelt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

Put out the light.

Chief of the Army.

More light! Give me more light!

They can conquer who believe they can.

Jefferson still survives.

Drink to me.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.

There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands

He who has never hoped can never despair.

Order, unity and continuity are human inventions just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.

There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Where do I find the time for not reading so many books?

Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

O why was I born with a different face?
Why was I not born like rest of my race?

If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thomas A.

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.

The world belongs to the energetic.

Life is an effort that deserves a better cause.

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them

I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon. I cannot understand the love affair.

The making of a journalist: no ideas and the ability to express them.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

When you have no basis of argument, abuse the plaintiff.

An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Irony is the hygiene of the mind.

In rivers and bad governments, the lightest things swim at the top.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.