Nathaniel Macon famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Man is too near all kinds of beasts,--a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
I think 'Tap Dogs' has lasted so long because people have a natural interest in tap dancing. This form of dancing can't be dated, it's such an intriguing form of dance because the feet are also an an instrument.
[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.
I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.
Never put much confidence in such as put no confidence in others. A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself. As to the pure all things are pure, even so to the impure all things are impure.
There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.
I wrote two plays before I was cast on The Neighbors. They actually got published, which was cool.

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