Pary Quotes

Life can only be understood backwards;

but it must be lived forwards.

The legal right of the Southern people to reclaim

their fugitives I have constantly admitted.

The legal right of Congress to interfere with

their institution in the states,

I have constantly denied.

They don’t want you to win.

They don’t want you to be successful.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person,

can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana

is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl;

we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg

than by smashing it.

Be brave.

Take risks.

Nothing can substitute experience.

We needed to be assertive as women in those days

assertive and aggressive and the degree to

which we had to be that way depended on where you were.

I had to be.

I’m a firm believer in the power of the individual.

The seed of my success was my curiosity.

The world hates change,

yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Stuff your eyes with wonder,

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

Love your neighbor as yourself.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended;

yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

To thine own self be true.

Discourage litigation.

Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can.

As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of

being a good man.

There will still be business enough.

The government is us;

we are the government,

you and I.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick.

Don't lose faith.

No act of kindness,

no matter how small,

is ever wasted.

With age comes the understanding and appreciation,

of your most important asset your health.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.