T.S. Eliot
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one…
Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.
To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable.
You may delay, but time will not.
There is no 'I' in 'team.'
Bad men are full of repentance.
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.
I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I'm awake, you know?
Religion to me has always been the wound, not the bandage.
In the United States the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of…
Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with…
To teach how to live with uncertainty, yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy can do.
If the businessman would stop talking like a computer printout or a page from the corporate annual report, other people would stop thinking he had a cash register for a…
Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
One thing I have learned about the presidency is that whatever shortcomings you have, people are going to notice them -- and whatever strengths you have, you're going to need…
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven…
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.
I like to say that I'm bisexual...when I want sex, I buy it.
Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
Only those who are fit to live do not fear to die. And none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of…
He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that, if you bore people, they think it's their fault.
The secret to humor is surprise.
You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience.
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.
You can never plan the future by the past.
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond…
In the depths of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.
When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.
Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves ardently and sees distinctly what it loves.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
You are apprehensive of monarchy; I, of aristocracy. I would therefore have given more power to the President and less to the Senate.
An atheist is one who hopes the Lord will do nothing to disturb his disbelief.
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.
All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.
The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
He not busy being born is busy dying.
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
The only really good place to buy lumber is at a store where the lumber has already been cut and attached together in the form of furniture, finished, and put…
Man still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
Once abolish the God, and the government becomes the God.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.
Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never be anything else.
It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly have gone wrong.
Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.
If you can speak three languages you're trilingual. If you can speak two languages you're bilingual. If you can speak only one language you're an American.
Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist.
Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly. So people began to develop regular music.
There are no solutions...there are only trade-offs.
What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.
You do not lead by hitting people over the head ? that's assault, not leadership.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.
Consider any individual at any period of his life, and you will always find him preoccupied with fresh plans to increase his comfort.
The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.
Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.