#War Quotes #Heart Quotes #Sometimes Quotes
“The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.”
“You cannot demand military service of Christians any more than you can of priests. We do not go forth as soldiers with the Emperor even if he demands this.”
“Arrogance can be deadly.”
“Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express. Let them make the effort to express these ideas in appropriate words without the aid of symbols, and if they succeed they will not only lay us laymen under a lasting obligation, but, we venture to say, they will find themselves very much enlightened during the process, and will even be doubtful whether the ideas as expressed in symbols had ever quite found their way out of the equations into their minds.”
“Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way.”
“Friction makes sparks and sparks start creative conflagrations.”
“Crime expands according to our willingness to put up with it.”
“There is a strange reluctance on the part of most people to admit that they enjoy life.”
Amy Lowell Poet
Edgar Allan Poe Author
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poet
James Thomas Fields Publisher
John Greenleaf Whittier Poet
Ralph Waldo Emerson Essayist
Washington Irving Author
William C. Bryant Poet
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Physician
