Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Green Ingersoll

The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not believe men because they are dead, or contradict them because they are alive. With him an utterance is worth the truth, the reason it contains, without the slightest regard to the author. He may have been a king or serf - a philosopher or servant, - but the utterance neither gains nor loses in truth or reason. Its value is absolutely independent of the fame or station of the man who gave it to the world.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Years should not be devoted to the acquisition of dead languages or to the study of history which, for the most part, is a detailed account of things that never occurred. It is useless to fill the individual with dates of great battles, with the births and deaths of kings. They should be taught the philosophy of history, the growth of nations, of philosophies, theories, and, above all, of the sciences.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Intelligence, guided by kindness, is the highest wisdom. . . .

Robert Green Ingersoll

Cruelty hardens and degrades, kindness reforms and ennobles.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Arguments cannot be answered with insults. . . . Kindness is strength. . . . Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. In the examination of a great and important question, every one should be serene, slow-pulsed, and calm.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

Robert Green Ingersoll

In all ages, hypocrites, called priests, have put crowns upon the heads of thieves, called kings.

Rudyard Kipling

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Rudyard Kipling

The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

Samuel Johnson

In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it; for no species of falsehood is more frequent than flattery, to which the coward is betrayed by fear, the dependent by interest, and the friend by tenderness: those who are neither servile nor timorous are yet desirous to bestow pleasure; and, while unjust demands of praise continue to be made, there will always be some whom hope, fear, or kindness will dispose to pay them.

Samuel Johnson

The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.

Samuel Johnson

It is not indeed certain, that the most refined caution will find a proper time for bringing a man to the knowledge of his own failing, or the most zealous benevolence reconcile him to that judgment by which they are detected; but he who endeavours only the happiness of him whom he reproves will always have either the satisfaction of obtaining or deserving kindness; if he succeeds, he benefits his friend; and if he fails, he has at least the consciousness that he suffers for only doing well.

Samuel Johnson

How small of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure! Still to ourselves in every place consigned, Our own felicity we make or find. With secret course, which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

Samuel Johnson

How small of all that human hearts endure/That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.

Samuel Johnson

When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.

Samuel Johnson

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Samuel Johnson

Deceit and falsehood, whatever conveniences they may for a time promise or produce, are, in the sum of life, obstacles to happiness. Those who profit by the cheat distrust the deceiver; and the act by which kindness was sought puts an end to confidence.

Samuel Johnson

The safe and general antidote against sorrow is employment. It is commonly observed, that among soldiers and seamen, though there is much kindness, there is little grief; they see their friend fall without any of that lamentation which is indulged in security and idleness, because they have no leisure to spare from the care of themselves; and whoever shall keep his thoughts equally busy will find himself equally unaffected with irretrievable losses.

Samuel Johnson

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Rufus Choate

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

Ruhollah Khomeini

With people's revolutionary rage, the king will be ousted and a democratic state, Islamic Republic, will be established.

Robert Jordan

As he did so, a wind rose up around him, around the man who had been called lord, Dragon Reborn, king, killer, lover and friend.

Robert James Waller

An inherent kindness exists in the process of aging ... we are allowed to move along gradually.

Rodney Dangerfield

She was so fat that her bikini is made out of two bed sheets (king-size).

He who does a kindness to an ungrateful person, sets his seal to a flint and sows his seed upon the sand; on the former he makes no impression, and from the latter finds no product.

Robert Southey

Some voluntary castaways there will always be, whom no fostering kindness and no parental care can preserve from self-destruction; but if any are lost for want of care and culture, there is a sin of omission in the society to which they belong.

Robert Payne

Historically the first philosopher to enquire deeply into the nature of corruption in society was Ibn Khaldun (1322-1406), whose wandering life was largely spent in the northern littoral of Africa at a time when kingdoms and sultanates were crumbling.

Robert Payne

All is forgiven to kings and popes. History grants them immunity, even a full pardon, even when they admit their crimes and glory in them.

Robert Palmer

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

Robert Penn Warren

Man is conceived in sin and born in corruption and he passeth from the stink of the didie to the stench of the shroud. There is always something (All The King's Men)

Wallace Stevens

Money is a kind of poetry.

Vittorio Alfieri

A conquering king will banish from his breast hatred towards one whom he no longer fears.