Them Quotes

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

I consider myself to be a pretty good judge of people... that's why I don't like any of them.

I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

Let your children go if you want to keep them.

Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.

A lot of the carols were not as you hear them now.

It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them.

I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty... you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

When I say I want to photograph someone, what it really means is that I'd like to know them. Anyone I know I photograph.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

All life demands struggle. Those who have everything given to them become lazy, selfish, and insensitive to the real values of life. The very striving and hard work that we so constantly try to avoid is the major building block in the person we are today.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Justice and truth are too such subtle points that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Those who hate you don't win unless you hate them, and then you destroy yourself.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won't come in.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars.

It is true we have won all our wars, but we have paid for them. We don't want victories anymore.

Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men.