Best Quotes Around the World

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.

A man’s own judgment should be the final appeal in all that relates to himself.

I have an eye for detail.

I read to my kid, but I can’t stand reading.

My father… removed from Kentucky to… Indiana, in my eighth year… It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up… Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher… but that was all.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say.

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.

It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

We make war that we may live in peace.

This is a wonderful planet, and it is being completely destroyed by people who have too much money and power and no empathy.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

You don’t always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that’s plenty.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right; but it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation may be on the Lord’s side.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and under the rule of a just God, cannot long retain it.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

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.

If you think you can slander a woman into loving you, or a man into voting for you, try it till you are satisfied.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

It is a neck-and-neck race between Mr. Gray and myself who shall complete our apparatus first. He has the advantage over me in being a practical electrician – but I have reason to believe that I am better acquainted with the phenomena of sound than he is – so that I have an advantage there.

Where do the evils like corruption arise from? It comes from the never-ending greed. The fight for corruption-free ethical society will have to be fought against this greed and replace it with ‚what can I give‘ spirit.

In so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels so that every poor man may have a home.

The law is reason, free from passion.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

Standing as I do, with my hand upon this staff, and under the folds of the American flag, I ask you to stand by me so long as I stand by it.

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.

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.

I’ll continue to make the typical Adam Sandler comedies.