James O'Donnell Bennett famous quotes

Alas, I have done nothing this day! What?! Have you not lived? It is not only the fundamental but the noblest of your occupations.
-- James O'Donnell Bennett

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Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.

...mastery of the emotions is fundamental to a virtuous life.

The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.

The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.

If we can't begin to agree on fundamentals, such as the elimination of the most abusive forms of child labor, then we really are not ready to march forward into the future.

I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.

I love movie-making. I'm interested in writing and directing, and I've dabbled, but I haven't done anything I care to brag about. Yet.