Which Quotes

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.

I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.

America was indebted to immigration for her settlement and prosperity. That part of America which had encouraged them most had advanced most rapidly in population, agriculture and the arts.

The world is never quiet, even its silence eternally resounds with the same notes, in vibrations which escape our ears. As for those that we perceive, they carry sounds to us, occasionally a chord, never a melody.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn't much. But the things that I'm really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I'm not successful, what do I have?

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.

I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

I do not believe there is a problem in this country or the world today which could not be settled if approached through the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount.

Sex and beauty are inseparable, like life and consciousness. And the intelligence which goes with sex and beauty, and arises out of sex and beauty, is intuition.

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize.

We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Men should only believe half of what women say. But which half?

Many a man will have the courage to die gallantly, but will not have the courage to say, or even to think, that the cause for which he is asked to die is an unworthy one.