John Harte famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The easiest time to be funny is during a fairly serious situation. That way, you can break the ice. It's crazy, but even at funerals, people will get huge laughs.
The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.
You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.
Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant.
But beware, dear reader. For we go out into the wide, wild world, looking to change, looking to grow, looking for wisdom. But wisdom is hard to come by, and once achieved, it is very easily lost. Especially when one is leaving the wide, wild world - and returning to the place you once fled.
Some people brighten up a room just by leaving it.
The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
[What she told herself before interviews:] I am the way I am; I look the way I look; I am my age.
In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions.

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