Aaron Burr famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.
-- Aaron Burr

#Light #Giving #Done
Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
-- Aaron Burr

#Regret #May #Today
Error often is to be preferred to indecision.
-- Aaron Burr

#Errors #Indecision
Law is whatever is boldly asserted and plausibly maintained.
-- Aaron Burr

#Law
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
-- Aaron Burr

#Life Is #Pleasure
I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.
-- Aaron Burr

#Apology #Living My Life #Fitting

A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
The purely righteous do not complain of the dark, but increase the light; they do not complain of evil, but increase justice; they do not complain of heresy, but increase faith; they do not complain of ignorance, but increase wisdom.
Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.
Forget yourself and live for others, for It is more blessed to give than to receive.
There is not a command God gives to His children for which He does not provide the enablement for obedience.
If a boxer ever went as crazy as Nijinsky all the wowsers in the world would be screaming 'punch-drunk.' Well, who hit Nijinsky? And why isn't there a campaign against ballet? It gives girls thick legs
Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
Of course we all have our limits, but how can you possibly find your boundaries unless you explore as far and as wide as you possibly can? I would rather fail in an attempt at something new and uncharted than safely succeed in a repeat of something I have done.
What we have done in the past is not sufficient now to prepare our youth.
THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1894... I met with the Quorum and Presidency in the temple... President Woodruff then spoke... 'In searching out my genealogy I found about four hundred of my female kindred who were never married. I asked Pres. Young what I should do with them. He said for me to have them sealed to me unless there were more than 999 of them. The doctrine startled me, but I had it done.

Aaron Burr famous quotes

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