Which Quotes

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

Life is a battle between faith and reason in which each feeds upon the other, drawing sustenance from it and destroying it.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was, you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose, which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning, there was no rose.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

The actor is in the hands of a lot of other people, over which he has no control.

I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.

People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not.

The quality of decision is like the well-timed swoop of a falcon which enables it to strike and destroy its victim.

I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves.

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.

The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

Weakness of character is the only defect which cannot be amended.