Literature Quotes - Page 4

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

What was funny if you were there is that we were all immensely sophisticated people who knew exactly what she was going to say and we're chatting away, nice to see you.

I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

The truth is lived, not taught.

Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.

I never knew a more presumptuous person than myself. The fact that I say that shows that what I say is true.

Knowledge helps only when it descends into habits.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had.

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

In my photographs it is apparent that there was no posing at the moment I released the shutter.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

There are other issues I have felt more emotionally connected to, like China, where I lived and worked for some time. I was living there when Tiananmen Square erupted

I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.

Literature is air, and Im suffocating in mediocrity.

Impartial - unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy.