Their Quotes

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I was very pushed to look a certain way and act a certain way, and it wasn't me, but I played by their rules to get my foot in the door.

If our soldiers are not overburdened with money, it is not because they have a distaste for riches; if their lives are not unduly long, it is not because they are disinclined to longevity.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.

I read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers.

Most people regard getting their way as a matter of simple justice.

Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem.

What Democratic congressmen do to their women staffers, Republican congressmen do to the country.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

The religious superstitions of women perpetuate their bondage more than all other adverse influences.

Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Don't become a mere recorder of facts, but try to penetrate the mystery of their origin.

The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune.

Mitt Romney will stop the attacks on job creators, encourage entrepreneurs to chase their dreams, and bring good jobs and a better future to all Americans.

Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs.