Quotes
Quotes about Pen
To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not, rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common--this is my symphony.
Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living.
There would be no society if living together depended upon understanding each other.
A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.
Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
What you get out depends on what you put in; and as the grandest mill in the world will not extract wheat-flour from peascods, so pages of formulae will not get a definite result out of loose data.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been." -John Greenleaf Whittier, poet (1807-1892)
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
Now I see the secret of the making of the best persons. It is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
A successful man is one who makes more money than a wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
Never spend your money before you have it.
In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
The carpenter is not the best who makes more chips than all the rest.
Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.
