" Self-expression must pass into communication for its fulfillment." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Do not believe that possibly you can escape the reward of your action." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The moral sense reappears today with the same morning newness that has been from of old the fountain of beauty and strength. You say there is no religion now. 'Tis like saying in rainy weather, There is no sun, when at that moment we are witnessing one of its superlative effects. " ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥23SharePinTweet0 SharesRainy Quotes
" If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can't live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time." ~ Noam Chomsky ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out." ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our country." ~ Pearl S. Buck ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they be executed." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Belief consists in accepting the affirmations of the soul; Unbelief, in denying them." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ♥8SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something you do in your spare time." ~ Marian Wright Edelman ♥23SharePinTweet1 SharesLife Quotes
" It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse races." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Let us swear while we may, for in Heaven it will not be allowed." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥14SharePinTweet0 Shares
" No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥20SharePinTweet0 Shares
" There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥21SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Make it a point to do something every day that you don't want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Always do right--this will gratify some and astonish the rest. message to Young People's Society, Greenpoint Presbyterian Church, Brooklyn, New York, February 16, 1901" ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥19SharePinTweet0 Shares
" There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥11SharePinTweet0 Shares
" In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing. Autobiography, 1959" ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥15SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Many public-school children seem to know only two dates--1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" A historian who would convey the truth must lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥18SharePinTweet0 Shares
" All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥13SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥17SharePinTweet0 Shares
" Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing the matter with this, except that it ain't so." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
" There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥16SharePinTweet0 Shares
" The government is merely a servant -- merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them." ~ Mark Twain Quotes ♥12SharePinTweet0 Shares
