Who Quotes

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.

Those who cannot work with their hearts achieve but a hollow, half-hearted success that breeds bitterness all around.

I am for socialism, disarmament, and, ultimately, for abolishing the state itself... I seek the social ownership of property, the abolition of the propertied class, and the sole control of those who produce wealth. Communism is the goal.

I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

I am only young once, who cares if I'm a goofball!

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Happy is the man who finds a true friend, and far happier is he who finds that true friend in his wife.

You know, who cares about seeing the girls when everybody wants to see the band. That's what's important, KISS is important. I think we look great, and the attitude is there, and I'm real happy with it.

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.

The savior who wants to turn men into angels is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets.

A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.

To hate is to show you still care, who needs that, focus on what's really important.