Them Quotes

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.

I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London.

It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.

It sometimes makes people feel better about themselves, you know, to put other people down, or make fun of them, or maybe make mockery of their work and that doesn't make me feel good at all.

I will not attack your doctrines nor your creeds if they accord liberty to me. If they hold thought to be dangerous - if they aver that doubt is a crime, then I attack them one and all, because they enslave the minds of men.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

It's time to debate images, especially when someone's going to prison for downloading them.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.

Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from them. I thought that was fun.

God made man to go by motives, and he will not go without them, any more than a boat without steam or a balloon without gas.

When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress.

Don't pay any attention to the critics - don't even ignore them.

Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Of course there are certain things that get to me, but I try and lead by example and show people that, especially with haters, that you should just ignore them.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count on them. Leave them alone.