Nathaniel Hawthorne
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
In the small matters trust the mind, in the large ones the heart.
Success is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.
Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position.
God gave us two ends. One to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use; head you win, tail, you lose.
If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.
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Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders…
Everything done in weakness fails. Moral: Do nothing.
I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.
Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
The heart of marriage is memories; and if the two of you happen to have the same ones and can savor your reruns, then your marriage is a gift from…
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
If you are gonna kick society in the teeth, you might as well use both feet.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better…
I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get…
You are what you love. Not what loves you.
Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
The government is best which governs least.
All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.
The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.
Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.
The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it; so fine that we are often on the line and do not know…
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.
When you get to be President, there are all those things, the honors, the twenty-one gun salutes, all those things. You have to remember it isn't for you. It's for…
No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.
Christmas is the one time of year when people of all religions come together to worship Santa Claus.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by…
The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is…
I saw few die of hunger; of eating, a hundred thousand.
One ought, each day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.
The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.
Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.
The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.
Gaze long into the abyss, and the abyss gazes into you.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.
A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the…
Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
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Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Please, if you ever see me getting beaten up by the police, please put your video camera down and help me.
Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their…
If the primary aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation?
Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.
Everything has been thought of before, but the difficulty is to think of it again.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.
Fear makes us feel our humanity.
Nothing so dates a man as to decry the younger generation.
We should not criticise those who trip by taking a more difficult than usual step.
Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.
Think, every day, something no one else is thinking.
Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse, yet he has left it out of his heaven.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten but they may start a winning game.
It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
To forbid the making of pictures about God would be to forbid thinking about God at all, for man is so made that he has no way to think except…
He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a…
When you work seven days a week, fourteen hours a day, you get lucky.
Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few capitalists.
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the soverign's ruination.
I feel sorry for short people, you know. When it rains, they're the last to know.