Quotes
Quotes about Pen
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do on chewing gum.
Write the bad things that are done to you in the sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble.
Contentment is a pearl of great price, and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and a happy purchase.
As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.
A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.
A man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of life getting his living.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
What a heavy oar the pen is, and what a strong current ideas are to row in!
Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it, and it darts away.
Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood.
All zoos actually offer the public, in return for the taxes spent upon them, is a form of idle witless amusement, compared to which a visit to the state penitentiary, or even a state legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
Many live in the ivory tower called reality; they never venture on the open sea of thought.
I'm sometimes asked "Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?" I answer: "I am working at the roots." -George T. Angell, reformer (1823-1909)
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.
It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.
No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are indispensable.
Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience?
