Gone Quotes - Page 37

• The democrat is a young conservative; the conservative is an old democrat. The aristocrat is the democrat ripe, and gone to seed,--because both parties stand on the one ground of the supreme value of property, which one endeavors to get, and the other to keep.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Party, Politics, Conservative

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.252, Penguin

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• If your nose is up in the air, you cannot see where you are going.

  Mason Cooley

  Air, Noses, Where You Are

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• In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Naked, Littles

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• Once wealth and beauty are gone, there is always rural life.

  Mason Cooley

  Country, Rural Life, Wealth

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• Our troubles keep us going.

  Mason Cooley

  Trouble

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• Age: I go slower as time goes faster.

  Mason Cooley

  Time, Age, Faster

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• A sheep who goes looking for a wolf is sure to find one.

  Mason Cooley

  Sheep

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• Funerals prove that someone is really gone.

  Mason Cooley

  Funeral, Prove

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• If you are going to be rude, be quick about it.

  Mason Cooley

  Rude, Rudeness, Ifs

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• The self-righteous rule out the possibility that they are what has gone wrong.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Possibility, Righteous

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• I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer, a little sounder for those who come after. Nobody begins or ends anything. Each person is a link, weak or strong, in an endless chain. One of our gravest mistakes is persuading ourselves that nobody has passed this way before.

  Ida Tarbell

  Strong, Real, Mistake

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• When the business man who fights to secure special privileges, to crowd his competitor off the track by other than fair competitive methods, receives the same summary disdainful ostracism by his fellows that the doctor or lawyer who is 'unprofessional,' the athlete who abuses the rules, receives, we shall have gone a long way toward making commerce a fit pursuit for our young men.

  Ida Tarbell

  Business, Athlete, Fighting

  Ida M. Tarbell (2009). “The History of the Standard Oil Company”, p.292, Cosimo, Inc.

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• City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

  Mary Augusta Ward

  Venice, Should Have, Cities

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• Religion and anger has gone together a lot, historically. My father, being very religious and angry, was trying to reconcile the ideas of love and forgiveness with damage in his own heart. We historically create God in the image of someone who will redeem us, or someone who has damaged us. A lot of my imaginations of God was a projection of my own damage because of my father. God is good but he has a lot of expectations, of which I have failed -- just like my dad. But I don't think it's truthful to create God as a projection of either our damage or our altruism.

  William P. Young

  Religious, Dad, Father

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• Personal change, growth, development, identity formation--these tasks that once were thought to belong to childhood and adolescence alone now are recognized as part of adult life as well. Gone is the belief that adulthood is, or ought to be, a time of internal peace and comfort, that growing pains belong only to the young; gone the belief that these are marker events--a job, a mate, a child--through which we will pass into a life of relative ease.

  Lillian B. Rubin

  Jobs, Children, Pain

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• I had gone into the hospital with the stupid notion that its primary object was the care and comfort of the sick and wounded. It was long after that I learned that a vast majority of all benevolent institutions are gotten up to gratify the aesthetic tastes of the public; exhibit the wealth and generosity of the founders, and furnish places for officers. The beneficiaries of the institutions are simply an apology for their existence, and having furnished that apology, the less said about them the better.

  Jane Swisshelm

  Stupid, Apology, Sick

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• The present only is a man's possession; the past is gone out of his hand wholly, irrevocably. He may suffer from it, learn from it,--in degree, perhaps, expiate it; but to brood over it is utter madness.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Regret, Past, Men

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• Oh, there at last, life's trials past, / We'll meet our loved ones more, / Whose feet have trod the path to God, -- / Not lost, but gone before.

  Caroline Norton

  Past, Feet, Lasts

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• People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the most remarkable one of a few years gone by, is no more remembered than if centuries had closed over it.

  Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

  Past, Years, People

  Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington (1838). “The Confessions of an Elderly Lady”, p.3

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• Now the last red ray is gone;
  Now the twilight shadows hie.

  Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

  Twilight, Shadow, Rays

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• The empire of Saturnus is gone by;
  Lord of the secret birth of things is he;
  Within the lap of earth, and in the depths
  Of the imagination dominates;
  And his are all things that eschew the light.
  The time is o'er of brooding and contrivance,
  For Jupiter, the lustrous, lordeth now,
  And the dark work, complete of preparation,
  He draws by force into the realm of light.
  Now must we hasten on to action, ere
  The scheme, and most auspicious positure
  Parts o'er my head, and takes once more its flight,
  For the heavens journey still, and adjourn not.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Dark, Journey, Light

  "Wallenstein" by Friedrich Schiller, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Act I, sc. i, 1798.

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• It is reported here that the King of Prussia has gone mad and has been locked up. There would be nothing bad about that: at leastthat might of his would no longer be a menace, and you could breathe freely for a while. I much prefer madmen who are locked up to those who are not.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Kings, Mad, Prussia

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• The dying boy said: " Father, don't you weep for me; when I get to heaven I will go straight to Jesus and tell Him that ever since I can remember you have tried to lead me to Him." I would rather have my children say that of me after I am gone; or if they die before me, I would rather they should take that message to the Master than to have a monument over me reaching to the skies.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Jesus, Children, Father

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 52), 1895.

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• I thank God that the gospel is to be preached to every creature. There is no man so far gone, but the grace of God can reach him; no man so desperate or black, but He can forgive him.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Men, Grace, Black

  Dwight L Moody (1897). “God's Good News”, p.48, Moody Publishers

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• That was the birth of sin. Not doing it, but KNOWING about it. Before the apple, [Adam and Eve] had shut their eyes and their minds had gone dark. Now, they peeped and pried and imagined. They watched themselves.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Knowledge, Eye, Dark

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8238, Delphi Classics

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