Quotes on Equator

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. Be cool at the equator; keep thy blood fluid at the Pole. Like the great dome of St. Peter's, and like the great whale, retain, O man! in all seasons a temperature of thine own.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean.

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way.