Charles Francis Adams Sr Famous Quotes

In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.
~Author : Charles Francis Adams Sr Famous Quotes

I get plenty of exercise carrying the coffins of my friends who exercise.
~Author : Red Skelton Inspirational Sayings

If a sufficient number of people who wanted to stop war really did gather together, they would first of all begin by making war upon those who disagreed with them. And it is still more certain that they would make war on people who also want to stop wars but in another way.
~Author : Gurdjieff Nice Quotes

It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that 'Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,--being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity.'
~Author : Athenus Great Sayings

Beat a man with the strength of you argument, not with the strength of your arm.
~Author : Oliver Wendell Holmes Meaningful Sayings

What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.
~Author : Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Wise Quotes

In wildness is the preservation of the world.
~Author : Henry David Thoreau Walking 1862 Motivational Sayings

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
~Author : Willa Cather Famous Quotes

We can forgive you for killing our sons. But we will never forgive you for making us kill yours.
~Author : Golda Meir to Anwar Saddat just before the peace talks Inspirational Sayings