Category Archives: Notable Quotables

  “You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.” — Henry Ford (1863 – 1947) American industrialist; founder of Ford Motor Company

“It’s the person who has done nothing who is sure nothing can be done.” — Sam Ewing (1921 – 2001) American journalist, author, and humorist

  “Two monologues do not make a dialogue.” — Jeff Daly American podcast host of the Daly Dose of Veterans Intel

  “When governments fear the people there is liberty. When the people fear the government there is tyranny.” –Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) 2nd US Vice President; 3rd US President; architect & author

  “If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.” — Cardinal Richelieu (1585-1642) (given name: Armand Jean du Plessis) French statesman and clergy

“What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.” — … Continue reading →

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.” – Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) American guitarist, songwriter, and singer

  “Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.” — Aldous Huxley (1894 – 1963) English writer & philosopher

  “It’s not what we have in life, but who we have in our life that matters.” — Unknown

  “When angry, count ten before you speak. If very angry, a hundred.” — Thomas Jefferson 1743 – 1826) 3rd president of the United States; diplomat, architect, and philosopher (in a letter to T.J. Smith on February 21, 1825)

  “Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.” — Albert Camus (1913 – 1960) French philosopher and writer    

“It is inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.” — H.L. Mencken (1880 – 1956) American journalist and cultural critic

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?” — Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 – 1962) American First Lady (1934 – 45)

“The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan (1882 – 1927) Indian professor of musicology

    “Listen now to the gentle whispers of hope.” — Charles D. Brodhead (1827 – 1913) Grocery clerk & postmaster; served in PA House of Representatives

  “I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”  — Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet) (1694 – 1778) French writer & philosopher

  “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” — Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821) French military commander & emperor

“Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.” — William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) English playwright, poet & actor (from “All’s Well That Ends Well”)

“Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.” — T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) Nobel Prize-winning American poet, playwright, & editor

  “Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.” — Alfred Hitchcock (1899 – 1980) English-American film director & producer

We humans have so much to learn. “It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.” — Aristotle (384 – 322 BC) Greek philosopher

I can think of no better person to toast a remembrance rum punch to than the King of Island Escapism… Jimmy Buffett. “If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane.” — Jimmy Buffett (1946 – 2023) American musician, singer, … Continue reading →

“When two elephants fight it is the grass that gets trampled.”  — African proverb

“Patriotism is supporting your country all the time and the government when it deserves it.” — Mark Twain (1835-1910) (pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens) 19th Century American author and humorist

  “I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.” — Confucius (551 – 479 BC) Chinese philosopher

  “Patience is also a form of action.”  — Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) French sculptor

“A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.” — Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809 – 1894) American physician, poet & polymath “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table” (1858)

“Courage without conscience is a wild beast.” — Robert Green Ingersoll, (1833 – 1899) American lawyer, Civil War veteran, orator, and abolitionist

“Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.” — Mark Twain (1835-1910) American author and humorist; pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens

  “Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706 – 1790) Founding Father of the United States, inventor, publisher, political philosopher

  “It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.” — Johann Wolfgang … Continue reading →

  “The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.” — Will Durant (1885 – 1981) American historian & philosopher

  “The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of things and stay there.” — Norman Vincent Peal (1898 – 1993) American clergyman & author (in his … Continue reading →

” If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.” — Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 – 1894) Scottish novelist

  “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”  — Mae West (1893 – 1980) American actress

  “Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.” Mark Twain (1835-1910) 19th Century American author and humorist; pen name for Samuel Langhorne Clemens