Bugger Quotes

Humor must not professedly teach

and it must not professedly preach,

but it must do both if it would live forever.

But friendship is

the breathing rose,

with sweets in every fold.

The best time for planning a book is while you’re doing the dishes.

Racism is still with us.

But it is up to us to prepare our children for what they have to meet,

and,

hopefully,

we shall overcome.

Stuff your eyes with wonder,

live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds.

The bird a nest,

the spider a web,

man friendship.

When the white man governs himself,

that is self government;

but when he governs himself and also governs another man,

that is more than self

government

that is despotism.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder

if they have ever made a difference in the world,

but the Marines don’t have that problem.

Real integrity is doing the right thing,

knowing that nobody's going,

to know whether you did it or not.

Nature is a mutable cloud

which is always and never the same.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought,

but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth

more than a college education.

A public opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

The greatest tragedy in life is not death,

but a life without purpose.

Each day is a little life every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

I have talked with great men,

and I do not see how they differ from others.

You can’t wait for inspiration,

you have to go after it with a club.

All things are artificial artificial, for nature is the art of God.