Classic Quotes by Chester Allen Arthur (1830-1886) US President (21st), VP (20th)
**Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken. **
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**I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business. **
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**Since I came here I have learned that Chester A. Arthur is one man and the President of the United States is another. **
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**I don't think we had better go into the minute secrets of the campaign, so far as I know them, because I see the reporters are present, who are taking it all down. **
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**Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping. **
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*Classic Quotes by Truman Capote (1924-1984) US writer *
**A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet. **
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**Adorned with cape, with tricorn, saintly soul singing in librarian tones an enameled song that coolly celebrates her chewing-gum enthusiasms. **
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**All literature is gossip. **
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**Even an attorney of moderate talent can postpone doomsday year after year, for the system of appeals that pervades American jurisprudence amounts to a legalistic wheel of fortune, a game of chance, somewhat fixed in the favor of the criminal, that the participants play interminably. **
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**Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor. **
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**Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. **
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**Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. **
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**Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends. **
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***Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call "out there."
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Classic Quotes by Faith Baldwin (1893-1978) US writer
**Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees. **
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**Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness. **
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**Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence. **
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**You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood, however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. **
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**Men's private self-worlds are rather like our geographical world's seasons, storm, and sun, deserts, oases, mountains and abysses, the endless-seeming plateaus, darkness and light, and always the sowing and the reaping. **
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**One of the dreariest spots on life's road is the point of conviction that nothing will ever again happen to you. **
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***Time is a dressmaker, specializing in alterations
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The first "T" guard, known as the "cup", was used in hockey in 1874 and the first helmet was used in cricket in 1974.
It took 100 years for men to realize that the brain is also important.
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Classic Quotes by Al Capp (1909-1979) US cartoonist
**Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. **
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**Any place that anyone can learn something useful from someone with experience is an educational institution. **
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**Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. **
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**Like all New York hotel lady cashiers she had red hair and had been disappointed in her first husband. **
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**My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it. **
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**Success is following the pattern of life one enjoys most. **
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**The public is like a piano. You just have to know what keys to poke. **
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**The secret of how to live without resentment or embarrassment in a world in which I was different from everyone else. was to be indifferent to that difference. **
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**There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. **
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**Young people should be helped, sheltered, ignored, and clubbed of necessary. **
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Classic Quotes by Samuel Adams (1722-1803) US patriot
**He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his private connections. **
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**How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! **
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**It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. **
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**Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. **
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**The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms. **
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***The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.
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*There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
Mother Teresa *
You are not paid to work hard.
In fact, you are not paid for effort at all.
You are paid for results.
It's not what you do;
it's what you get done.
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I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow. - Woodrow Wilson
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**Classic Quotes by H. G. Wells (1866-1946) English writer **
**A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. **
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**Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative. **
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**Advertising is legalized lying. **
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**Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise. **
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**And in the air are no streets, no channels, no point where one can say of an antagonist, "If he wants to reach my capital he must come by here." In the air all directions lead everywhere. **
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**Bah! The thing is not a nose at all, but a bit of primordial chaos clapped on to my face. **
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**Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. **
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**Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. **
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***Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.
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*Classic Quotes by Michael Faraday (1791-1867) English scientist *
**The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly. **
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**The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success are concentration, discrimination, organization, innovation and communication. **
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**The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. **
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**Why, sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! (to PM William Gladstone, on the usefulness of electricity) **
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**Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. **