Quotes on Miscellaneous

Lots of people talk to animals... Not very many listen, though... That's the problem.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Perfect people don't exist. And perfect people, if they existed, would be very boring. It is imperfection that keeps life interesting.

My music is best understood by children and animals.

That is what marriage really means; helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

By calling attention to 'a well regulated militia,' 'the security of the nation,' and the right of each citizen 'to keep and bear arms,' our founding fathers recognized the essentially civilian nature of our economy... The Second Amendment still remains an important declaration of our basic civilian-military relationships in which every citizen must be ready to participate in the defense of his country. For that reason I believe the Second Amendment will always be important.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Each day befriend a single fear, and the miscellaneous terrors of being human will never join together to form such a morass of vague anxiety that it rules your life from the shadows of the unconscious. We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.

The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step – in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come – is to teach men to shoot!

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

I'm so glad I never feel important, it does complicate life!

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

The best thing about humour is that it shows people they are not alone.

I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.