William Lyon Phelps Quotes

I believe a knowledge of the Bible without a college course is more valuable than a college course without a Bible.

The happiest people in this world are those who have the most interesting thoughts.

The highest happiness on earth is the happiness of marriage.

If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.

Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down.

The highest happiness on earth is marriage. Every man who is happily married is a successful man even if he has failed in everything else.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

The greatest of all the arts is the art of living together!

The amazing activity of the cat is delicately balanced by his capacity for relaxation. Every household should contain a cat, not only for decorative and domestic values, but because the cat in quiescence is medicinal to irritable, tense, tortured men and women.

Real happiness is not dependent on external things.

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing.

If happiness truly consisted in physical ease and freedom from care the happiest, individual would not be either a man or a woman it; it would be, I think a cow.

I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.

Herein lies the real value of education. Advanced education may or may not make men and women more efficient; but it enriches personality, increases the wealth of the mind, and hence brings happiness. It is the finest insurance against old age, against the growth of physical disability, of the lack and loss of animal delights.

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

A student never forgets an encouraging private word, when it is given with sincere respect and admiration.

PAINT THE WALLS OF your mind With many beautiful pictures.

Real happiness is not dependent on external things. The pond is fed from within. The kind of happiness that stays with you is the happiness that springs from inward thoughts and emotions. You must cultivate your mind if you wish to achieve enduring happiness.

If I were running the world I would have it rain only between 2 and 5 a.m. Anyone who was out then ought to get wet.

A cat pours his body on the floor like water. It is restful just to see him.

To a man the greatest blessing is individual liberty; to a dog it is the last word in despair.

Honesty is not necessarily the best policy. The best policy would be to acquire a reputation for honesty and then to cheat at the psychological moment.

Two persons who love each other are in a place more holy than the interior of a church.