143 quotes found
“There are philosophies which are unendurable not because men are cowards but because they are men.”
“When I decided to go into politics I weighed the cost: I would get criticism. But I went ahead. So when the virulent criticism came I wasn't surprised. I was better able to handle it.”
“Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems not even saints or sages.”
“Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals " or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain...”
“Life is made up of sobs sniffles and smiles with sniffles predominating.”
“The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.”
“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they might have been.”
“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you're a vegetarian.”
“We do not write as we want but as we can.”
“When nobody around you seems to measure up it's time to check your yardstick.”
“Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence with the certainty of losing it at last.”
“Marriage is not just spiritual communion and passionate embraces marriage is also three meals a day sharing the workload and remembering to carry out the trash.”
“We [Americans] cheerfully assume that in some mystic way love conquers all that good outweighs evil in the just balances of the universe and that at the eleventh hour something gloriously triumpha...”
“There is no such thing as something for nothing.”
“Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.”
“Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.”
“In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.”
“Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.”
“Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.”
“Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.”
