Them Quotes

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them.

And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.

Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying.

The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to frighten them, but to challenge them.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.

Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Magic trick: to make people disappear, ask them to fulfill their promises.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

There are no favorites in my office. I treat them all with the same general inconsideration.

If you pick the right people and give them the opportunity to spread their wings and put compensation as a carrier behind it you almost don't have to manage them.

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Most of us end up with no more than five or six people who remember us. Teachers have thousands of people who remember them for the rest of their lives.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.