His Quotes

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

You sound like a man with a vision. Care to pass that bong over this way?

The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.

No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.

A man is usually more careful of his money than of his principles.

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the lover swooning under his lady's window.

Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.