Quotes to inspire and reflect

He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too.

Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right.

Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die.

To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

Until I came to New Mexico, I never realized how much beauty water adds to a river .

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them.

It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct.

To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life.

Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself.

A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt

The citizen who sees his society's democratic clothes being worn out and does not cry it out, is not a patriot, but a traitor.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired .

I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself.

How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

All religions issue bibles again Satan, and say the most injurious things against him, but we never hear his side.

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot .

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time.

And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.

Eating and sleeping are the only activities that should be allowed to interrupt a man's enjoyment of his cigar.

The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble .

What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it.

I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.

You can go to heaven if you want. I'd rather stay in Bermuda.

The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible.

All emotion is involuntary when genuine.

The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

It's easy to endure adversity -- if it happens to someone else.

You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do

The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example

Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

Humor is mankind's greatest blessing.

Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right .

Climate is what we expect, weather is what we get.

If all the fools in this world should die, lordly God how lonely I should be.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.