Which Quotes

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

But if nothing but soul, or in soul mind, is qualified to count, it is impossible for there to be time unless there is soul, but only that of which time is an attribute, i.e. if change can exist without soul.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is buttered on.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Communism possesses a language which every people can understand - its elements are hunger, envy, and death.

Nothing is so contagious as example; and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

One of the things that is wrong with religion is that it teaches us to be satisfied with answers which are not really answers at all.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments' plans.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

Love is the foundation from which your decisions about your life should be made.

For the man sound of body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every day has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.