Them Quotes

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel.

A man is not paid for having a head and hands, but for using them.

I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Most people already know what they're doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

The person who comes up to you and makes the most noise and is the most intrusive is invariably the person in the room who has no respect for you at all, and it's really all about them.

Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.

Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone - and hurt them to the bone - you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

When kids hit one year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.

We must declare ourselves, become known; allow the world to discover this subterranean life of ours which connects kings and farm boys, artists and clerks. Let them see that the important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.

I think sometimes when children grow up, their parents grow up. Mine grew up with me. We coexist. I don't try to change them anymore, and I don't think they try to change me.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of that combination.

I have walked away from friendships when I've realized that someone smiles to someone's face and talks about them the minute they walk out of a room. I have no room in my life for that kind of negative energy anymore.

I do reinvent old hits of mine and sort of give them a new life.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.