Fellows Quotes - Page 27

• A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together.

  John O'Keefe

  Weather, Glasses, People

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• Riches, power and fame last only for a few years! Why do people cling so desperately to these transitory things? Why can't people who have more than they need for themselves give that surplus to their fellow citizens? Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

  Anne Frank

  Hard Times, Years, People

  Anne Frank (1959). “The Works of Anne Frank”, Greenwood Press

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• But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

  Robert Kennedy

  Lying, Men, Hands

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• Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would have won hands down in an IQ test, but if you ask who was the most attractive personality then Darwin is the one you'd wish to meet. Newton was solitary and reclusive, even vain and vindictive in his later years when he was president of the society.

  Martin Rees

  Years, Hands, Personality

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• There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine. Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity. It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, People, Stupidity

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Aphorisms”, p.7, Oscar Wilde

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• I've noticed two things about men who get big salaries. They are almost invariably men who, in conversation or in conference, are adaptable. They quickly get the other fellow's view. They are more eager to do this than to express their own ideas. Also, they state their own point of view convincingly.

  John Hallock, Jr.

  Communication, Men, Views

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• Bottled, was he?" Said Colonel Bantry, with an Englishman's sympathy for alcoholic excess. "Oh, well, can't judge a fellow by what he does when he's drunk? When I was at Cambridge, I remember I put a certain utensil - well - well, nevermind.

  Agatha Christie

  Sympathy, Drunk, Judging

  Agatha Christie (1977). “Starring Miss Marple”, Dodd Mead

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• 'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

  E. M. Forster

  Sympathy, Congratulations, Sincere

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.278, Delphi Classics

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• I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sympathy, Morning, Spring

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.194, Penguin

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• If a wave of service sweeps over the land, catching everyone in its enthusiasm, it will be able to wipe off the mounds of hatred, malice and greed that infest the World. Attune your hearts so that it will vibrate in sympathy with the woes and joys of your fellow-men. Fill the World with Love. Love will warn you against advising another to do something which you yourself are unwilling to do; your conscience will tell you that you are living in a lie!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sympathy, Lying, Heart

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• In the first section of the Doctrine and Covenants we read that 'the Lord shall come to recompense unto every man according to his work, and measure to every man according to the measure which he has measured to his fellow man.' (D&C 1:10.) This principle, showing the manner by which God will judge us, puts a new light upon the commandment to love our neighbors as ourselves, and should persuade us to take that law seriously.

  Mark E. Petersen

  Men, Light, Law

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• The man who fights for his fellow-man is a better man than the one who fights for himself.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fighting, Men, Fellow Man

  Clarence Darrow (2012). “Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom”, p.154, University of Chicago Press

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• My brethren, let me say, be like Christ at all times. Imitate him in "public." Most of us live in some sort of public capacity-many of us are called to work before our fellow-men every day. We are watched; our words are caught; our lives are examined-taken to pieces. The eagle-eyed, argus-eyed world observes everything we do, and sharp critics are upon us. Let us live the life of Christ in public. Let us take care that we exhibit our Master, and not ourselves-so that we can say, "It is no longer I that live, but Christ that lives in me."

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Live Life, Taken

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• Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

  H. L. Mencken

  Jealous, Littles, Taste

  "A Mencken Chrestomathy". Book by H. L. Mencken, 1949.

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• I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers.

  George Washington

  Sweet, Retirement, Freedom

  George Washington (1851). “The life of General Washington: first president of the United States”, p.337

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• So, lively brisk old fellow, don't let age get you down. White hairs or not, you can still be a lover.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Friendship, Hair, White

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• Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• The condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.

  Thornton Wilder

  Leadership, Order, Issues

  Thornton Wilder (1987). “The ides of March”, HarperCollins

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• I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow men.

  Ronald Reagan

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Remarks at the Annual Convention of the the National Association of Evangelicals, delivered 8 March 1983, Orlando, Florida

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• Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Teacher, Wife

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2014). “Songs of Travel: And Other Verses”, p.37, The Floating Press

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• I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice.

  Nelson Mandela

  Hate, Home, Fighting

  Nelson Mandela (1963*). “We Accuse: The Trial of Nelson Mandela”

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• Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of some less fortunate fellow traveler. Today you can make your life . . . significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with it as you will.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Heart, Today Is The Day, Long

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

  A. E. Housman

  Heart, Men, Blue

  A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• One may desire a spurious respect and precedence among one's fellow monks, and the veneration of outsiders. "Both monks and laity should think it was my doing. They should accept my authority in all matters great or small." This is a fool's way of thinking. His self-seeking and conceit just increase.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Humility, Pride

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• All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; Learn that every Muslim is a brother to every Muslim and that the Muslims constitute one brotherhood. Nothing shall be legitimate to a Muslim which belongs to a fellow Muslim unless it was given freely and willingly. Do not, therefore, do injustice to yourselves.

  Muhammad

  Positive, Brother, Injustice

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