201 quotes found
“Really, seeing the amount we give in charity, the wonder is there are any poor left. It is a comfort that there are. What should we do without them? Our fur-clad little girls! our jolly, red-faced ...”
“the California supreme court, following the English common-law, decided that the owner of land bordering a watercourse was entitled only to the usufruct of the water; that if he used it he must ret...”
“When you loose your power to laugh, you loose your power to think straight.”
“It is so pleasant to come across people more stupid than ourselves. We love them at once for being so.”
“If he didn`t want his opinion,why did he ask for it?”
“He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is happy. Let him force his way into a peaceful home, and turn the w...”
“After breakfast the host takes the young man into a corner, and explains to him that what he saw was the ghost of a lady who had been murdered in that very bed, or who had murdered somebody else th...”
“A giant once lived in that body. But Matt Brady got lost. Because he was looking for God too high up and too far away.”
“He weighs the volume in his hand; this one has been the center of the whirlwind. Then DRUMMOND notices the Bible on the JUDGE's bench. He picks up the Bible in his other hand; he looks from one vol...”
“Why? Because I refuse to erase a man's lifetime? I tell you Brady had the same right as Cates: the right to be wrong!”
“You must not demand the failure of your peers, because the more good things that are around in film, in television, in theater - why the better it is for all of us.”
“Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.”
“Love is like the measles we all have to go through it. ”
“It's always such a joy that you wake up in the morning and there's work to do.”
“Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.”
“Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.”
“I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of ...”
“Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.”
“There is a deep question whether the possible meanings that emerge from an effort to explain the experience of art may not mask the real meanings of a work of art.”
“The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.”
