Alphabet Quotes

There will one day spring from the brain of science

a machine or force so fearful in its potentialities,

so absolutely terrifying, that even man,

the fighter,

who will dare torture and death in order to inflict torture and death,

will be appalled, and so abandon war forever.

A capacity, and taste,

for reading gives access to whatever

has already been discovered by others.

Dead people receive more flowers than

the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.

Live your life with love,

courage,

and integrity.

Friendship at first sight

like love at first sight

is said to be

the only truth.

He who does not know how to look back at

where he came from will never get to his destination.

Your most unhappy customers

are your greatest source of learning.

The language of friendship

is not words but meanings.

Few are those who see with their own eyes

and feel with their own hearts.

You may think it was a very little thing,

and in these days it seems to me like a trifle,

but it was a most important incident in my life.

I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy,

had earned a dollar in less than a day;

that by honest work, I had earned a dollar.

I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas,

if not a dead lion for this work,

is at least a caged and toothless one.

How can he oppose the advances of slavery?

He don't care anything about it.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity,

and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I have no hostility to nature,

but a child's love to it.

I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

In 'Huckleberry Finn,'

I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was.

He was ignorant, unwashed,

insufficiently fed;

but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.

It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn

that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy

, working at ten dollars per month)

have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth,

and aristocratic family distinction.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.

I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

People write negatives things,

cause they feel that's what sells.

Good news to them,

doesn't sell.

Show me something I haven't seen before.

You can't blame gravity for falling in love.