Destony Quotes

Every book is a quotation;

and every house is a quotation out of all forests,

and mines,

and stone quarries;

and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

People like to say that

the conflict is between

good and evil.

The real conflict is

between truth and lies.

It is a quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws,

but to break up both and make new ones.

Invest in yourself.

You are your biggest asset.

It's not the size of the dog in the fight,

it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run

to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows,

but only empties today of its strength.

I can make more generals,

but horses cost money.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently,

half slave and half free.

A man watches his pear tree day after day,

impatient for the ripening of the fruit.

Let him attempt to force the process,

and he may spoil both fruit and tree.

But let him patiently wait,

and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.

Writing is not a profession but a vocation.

Perfection is not attainable,

but if we chase perfection

we can catch excellence.

I was a disadvantaged child from a non

educated family,

yet I had the advantage of being in the company of great teachers.

I had reasoned this out in my mind;

there was one of two things I had a right to,

liberty or death.

Humor must not professedly teach

and it must not professedly preach,

but it must do both if it would live forever.

He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;

he who loves no one has no woes.

The best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless,

unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

In the first place,

God made idiots.

That was for practice.

Then he made school boards.

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.