Long Quotes - Page 19

• Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.

  Will Rogers

  Wine, Years, Ill

  Will Rogers (1919). “Rogers-isms: The Cowboy Philosopher on Prohibition”

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• The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Errors, Evil, Doe

  Thomas Aquinas (1975). “Summa Contra Gentiles: Book 3: Providence”, p.266, University of Notre Dame Pess

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• I vote Democrat because Freedom of Speech is fine as long as nobody is offended by it.

  David Letterman

  Voting, Freedom Of Speech, Vote

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• I vote Democrat because I'm not concerned about millions of babies being aborted so long as we keep all death row inmates alive and comfy.

  David Letterman

  Baby, Voting, Alive

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• Don't sow your desires in someone else's garden; just cultivate your own as best you can; don't long to be other than what you are, but desire to be thoroughly what you are. Direct your thoughts to being very good at that and to bearing the crosses, little or great, that you will find there. Believe me, this is the most important and least understood point to the spiritual life. We all love according to what is our taste; few people like what is according to their duty or to God's liking. What is the use of building castles in Spain when we have to live in France?

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Faith, Spiritual, Believe

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• The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of delaying too long before putting the fruit in the Jell-O so it's too firm and the chunks just sit on top.

  Harold B. Lee

  Thanksgiving, Fruit, Bears

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• I have long believed that the only way peace can be achieved is through world government.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  World Government, Law, Way

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• My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule. But there is a higher Power, by whatever name we honor Him, who ordains not only righteousness but love, not only justice but mercy.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Love, Men, Names

  On being sworn in as President, 9 August 1974: G. J. Lankevich 'Gerald R. Ford' (1977)

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• He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Mistake

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• When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Quality, Noses

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• A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone.

  John Muir

  Book, Science, Men

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• The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

  Will Rogers

  Time, Party, Political

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• There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.

  Will Rogers

  Hands, Politics, Republican

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• Long ago when men cursed and beat the ground with sticks, it was called witchcraft. Today it's called golf.

  Will Rogers

  Golf, Men, Long Ago

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• If that is what makes us liberals, so be it, just as long as in reporting the news we adhere to the first ideals of good journalism - that news reports must be fair, accurate and unbiased.

  Walter Cronkite

  News, Unbiased, Firsts

  "Walter Cronkite Review: 'Gawd Almighty,' Shout 'the Truths' of Liberalism" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. July 20, 2009.

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• Another glorious Sierra day in which one seems to be dissolved and absorbed and sent pulsing onward we know not where. Life seems neither long nor short, and we take no more heed to save time or make haste than do the trees and stars. This is true freedom, a good practical sort of immortality.

  John Muir

  Spiritual, Stars, Tree

  John Muir (2015). “My First Summer in the Sierra (With Original Drawings & Photographs): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches & Wilderness Studies”, p.22, e-artnow

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• How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountains! To behold this alone is worth the pains of any excursion a thousand times over. The highest peaks burned like islands in a sea of liquid shade. Then the lower peaks and spires caught the glow, and long lances of light, streaming through many a notch and pass, fell thick on the frozen meadows.

  John Muir

  Pain, Islands, Light

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.351, Library of America

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• Long ago it was said that 'one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.' That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate, of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat.

  Jacob August Riis

  Struggle, Fate, Long Ago

  Jacob August Riis (1914). “How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York”

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• Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Book, Numbers, Boards

  Theodore Roosevelt (2016). “Hunting Trips of a Ranchman: Sketches of Sport on the Northern Cattle Plains”, p.15, Theodore Roosevelt

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• There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Hard Work, Men, Two

  Theodore Roosevelt (1995). “A Bully Father: Theodore Roosevelt's Letters to His Children”, Random House Incorporated

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• I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Honesty, Believe, Home

  Address Upon Taking the Oath of the U.S. Presidency, delivered 9 August 1974 East Room of the White House, Washington, D.C.

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• I had a life-long ambition to be a professional baseball player, but nobody would sign me.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Baseball, Ambition, Player

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• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Children, Book, Thinking

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• It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

  Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

  Determination, Regret, Parliament

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• I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Depression, Exercise, Night

  Edgar Allan Poe (2006). “The Portable Edgar Allan Poe”, p.488, Penguin

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