Odell Shepard famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.
-- Odell Shepard

#Hands #Feet #Fire
There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.
-- Odell Shepard

#People #Hopeless #Strive
For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.
-- Odell Shepard

#Prayer #Giving #Victory
The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.
-- Odell Shepard

#May #Flesh #Matter
If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.
-- Odell Shepard

#Snow #Forever #Doe
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn -- noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful -- is the clearest exception of all. The unicorn was not conceived in fear. Our early sense of Nature's majestry and mysetery is revealed in him.
-- Odell Shepard

#Beautiful #Noble #Facts
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.
-- Odell Shepard

#Wise #Men #Justice

The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
The mighty edifice of Government science dominated the scene in the middle of the 20th century as a Gothic cathedral dominated a 13th century landscape. The work of many hands over many years, it universally inspired admiration, wonder and fear.
My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.
I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it.
I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!
Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.
From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day.
God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box.
When the principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then the battle is your calling, and peace has become sin. You must at the price of dearest peace lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy with all the fire of your faith.
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks. If my daughter has a mediocre sense of humor, I'm just gonna tell her, 'Be a staff writer for a sitcom. Because they'll have to hire you, they can't really fire you, and you don't have to produce that much. It'll be awesome.'

Odell Shepard famous quotes

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