Them Quotes

Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.