Best Wilmarth S. Lewis Quotes: The most famous quotes by Wilmarth S. Lewis
The Yale president must be a Yale man. Not too far to the right, too far to the left or a middle-of-the-roader. Ready to give the ultimate word on every subject under the sun from how to handle the Russians to why undergraduates riot in the spring. Profound with a wit that bubbles up and brims over in a cascade of brilliance. You may have guessed who the leading candidate is, but there is a question about him Is God a Yale man — Wilmarth S. Lewis
Best Michael Lews Quotes: The most famous quotes by Michael Lews
There’s no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower. — Michael Lews
Best Gerd de Ley Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gerd de Ley
When the silent majority opens its mouth it is usually to yawn. — Gerd de Ley
Best Chao Li-hua Quotes: The most famous quotes by Chao Li-hua
My boat goes west, your’s east. Heaven’s a wind for both journeys. — Chao Li-hua
Best Liberace Quotes: The most famous quotes by Liberace
Nobody will believe in you unless you believe in yourself. — Liberace
Best G. C. Lichtenberg Quotes: The most famous quotes by G. C. Lichtenberg
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. — G. C. Lichtenberg
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. — G. C. Lichtenberg
Before we blame, we should first see if we can’t excuse. — G. C. Lichtenberg
To read means to borrow to create out of one’s readings is paying off one’s debts. — G. C. Lichtenberg
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. — G. C. Lichtenberg
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does. — G. C. Lichtenberg
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. — G. C. Lichtenberg
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. — G. C. Lichtenberg
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won’t encounter many rivals. — G. C. Lichtenberg
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. — G. C. Lichtenberg
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. — G. C. Lichtenberg
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. — G. C. Lichtenberg
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one’s own advantage and to that of one’s craft that a large part of genius consists. — G. C. Lichtenberg
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. — G. C. Lichtenberg
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. — G. C. Lichtenberg
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. — G. C. Lichtenberg
Best Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Quotes: The most famous quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Before we blame, we should first see if we can’t excuse. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To read means to borrow to create out of one’s readings is paying off one’s debts. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I am always grieved when a man of real talent dies, for the world needs such men more than heaven does. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage he won’t encounter many rivals. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one’s own advantage and to that of one’s craft that a large part of genius consists. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
What a blessing it would be if we could open and shut our ears as easily as we open and shut our eyes — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Don’t judge a man by his opinions, but what his opinions have made of him. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Best Licretius Quotes: The most famous quotes by Licretius
There is no place in nature for extinction. — Licretius
Best G. Gordon Liddy Quotes: The most famous quotes by G. Gordon Liddy
Obviously crime pays, or there’d be no crime. — G. Gordon Liddy
Best A. J. Liebling Quotes: The most famous quotes by A. J. Liebling
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money. — A. J. Liebling
I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy. — A. J. Liebling
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. — A. J. Liebling
I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. — A. J. Liebling
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one. — A. J. Liebling
Best Boe Lightman Quotes: The most famous quotes by Boe Lightman
Nature loves a burst of energy. — Boe Lightman
Best Rensis Likert Quotes: The most famous quotes by Rensis Likert
The greater the loyalty of a group toward the group, the greater is the motivation among the members to achieve the goals of the group, and the greater the probability that the group will achieve its goals. — Rensis Likert
Best James Lileks Quotes: The most famous quotes by James Lileks
I want to believe in intelligent design, and hence I am suspicious of anything that seems to confirm my desire to believe. — James Lileks
Ill feel that horrible feeling in my stomach you get when youve gone over to the Dark Side. But Ill be fine. Thats the good thing about the Dark Side. Eventually, your eyes adjust. — James Lileks
Best Alain de Lille Quotes: The most famous quotes by Alain de Lille
Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold. — Alain de Lille
Best Lillian Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lillian
Sometimes when I look at all my children, I say to myself, Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin. — Lillian
Best John Lilly Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Lilly
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true. — John Lilly
Best Rush Limbaugh Quotes: The most famous quotes by Rush Limbaugh
You know why there’s a Second Amendment In case the government fails to follow the first one. — Rush Limbaugh
Best Abraham Lincoln Quotes: The most famous quotes by Abraham Lincoln
It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, ‘And this, too, shall pass away.’ How much it expresses How chastening in the hour of pride How consoling in the depths of affliction — Abraham Lincoln
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. — Abraham Lincoln
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time. — Abraham Lincoln
All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. — Abraham Lincoln
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. — Abraham Lincoln
We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. — Abraham Lincoln
Lets have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. — Abraham Lincoln
…Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth. — Abraham Lincoln
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. — Abraham Lincoln
This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can excercise their constitutional right of amending it, or excercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. — Abraham Lincoln
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. — Abraham Lincoln
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance. — Abraham Lincoln
I remember my mother’s prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. — Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. — Abraham Lincoln
People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be. — Abraham Lincoln
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You may fool all of the people some of the time you can even fool some of the people all the time but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. — Abraham Lincoln
If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we must live through all time, or die by suicide. — Abraham Lincoln
If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. — Abraham Lincoln
My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it. — Abraham Lincoln
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just. — Abraham Lincoln
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end, when I come to lay down the reins of power, I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me. — Abraham Lincoln
With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. — Abraham Lincoln
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day. — Abraham Lincoln
It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words And this, too, shall pass away. — Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one. — Abraham Lincoln
I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice. — Abraham Lincoln
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing. — Abraham Lincoln
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. — Abraham Lincoln
‘Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. — Abraham Lincoln
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him. — Abraham Lincoln
Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. – in reply to comments about General Grant’s drinking problems — Abraham Lincoln
No man is good enough to govern another man without that other’s consent. — Abraham Lincoln
Corporations have been enthroned …. An era of corruption in high places will follow and the money power will endeavor to prolong its reign by working on the prejudices of the people… until wealth is aggregated in a few hands … and the Republic is destroyed. — Abraham Lincoln
Hypocrite The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan. — Abraham Lincoln
With the catching end the pleasures of the chase. — Abraham Lincoln
I don’t know who my grandfather was I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. — Abraham Lincoln
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. — Abraham Lincoln
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal…We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. — Abraham Lincoln
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one — Abraham Lincoln
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them — Abraham Lincoln
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. — Abraham Lincoln
The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships. — Abraham Lincoln
If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe. — Abraham Lincoln
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. — Abraham Lincoln
And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years. — Abraham Lincoln
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. — Abraham Lincoln
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. — Abraham Lincoln
If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. — Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee. — Abraham Lincoln
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real facts. — Abraham Lincoln
Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. — Abraham Lincoln
Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough. — Abraham Lincoln
It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. — Abraham Lincoln
Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed. — Abraham Lincoln
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that ‘a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.’ So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one. — Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. — Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. — Abraham Lincoln
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it’s best to let him run. — Abraham Lincoln
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it the tree is the real thing. — Abraham Lincoln
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. — Abraham Lincoln
Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. — Abraham Lincoln
You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time, but not all the people all the time. — Abraham Lincoln
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like. — Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. — Abraham Lincoln
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. — Abraham Lincoln
Best Victoria Lincoln Quotes: The most famous quotes by Victoria Lincoln
This is the art of courage to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good. — Victoria Lincoln
Best Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes: The most famous quotes by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day – like writing a poem, or saying a prayer. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one’s husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Perhaps I am a bear, or some hibernating animal underneath, for the instinct to be half asleep all winter is so strong in me. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Best Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh Quotes: The most famous quotes by Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn’t seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces. — Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
…Him that I love, I wish to be free–even from me. — Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. — Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable. — Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burdens, his own way. — Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after. — Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. — Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Only when one is connected to one’s inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be re-found through solitude. — Anne Spencer Morrow Lindbergh
Best Charles Lindbergh Quotes: The most famous quotes by Charles Lindbergh
Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. — Charles Lindbergh
I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes. — Charles Lindbergh
Best Ed Lindeman Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ed Lindeman
If you don’t go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope, your future will be impoverished. — Ed Lindeman
Best Raymond Lindquist Quotes: The most famous quotes by Raymond Lindquist
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. — Raymond Lindquist
Best Stanley Lindquist Quotes: The most famous quotes by Stanley Lindquist
God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons we could not learn in any other way. The way we learn those lessons is not to deny the feelings but to find the meanings underlying them. — Stanley Lindquist
Best Brian Lindsay Quotes: The most famous quotes by Brian Lindsay
Becoming a star may not be your destiny, but being the best you can be is a goal that you can set for yourself. — Brian Lindsay
Best Norman Lindsay Quotes: The most famous quotes by Norman Lindsay
The best love affairs are those we never had. — Norman Lindsay
Best S. E. Lindsay Quotes: The most famous quotes by S. E. Lindsay
Engineering is the practice of safe and economic application of the scientific laws governing the forces and materials of nature by means of organization, design and construction, for the general benefit of mankind. — S. E. Lindsay
Best Vachel Lindsay Quotes: The most famous quotes by Vachel Lindsay
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. — Vachel Lindsay
Best Margaret Lindsey Quotes: The most famous quotes by Margaret Lindsey
This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow’s happiness grow. — Margaret Lindsey
The little things are most worthwhile– quiet word, a look, a smile. — Margaret Lindsey
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