Hemlock famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • There is peace more destructive of the manhood of living man than war is destructive of his material body.

  • The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf.

  • The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  • Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love loves; this is its nature.

  • For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality consists. In my present human form of consciousness I simply cannot tell.

  • It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That this spirit gradually dissipates is due to the world's coming to an end. For this reason, although one would like to change today's world back to the spirit of one hundred years or more ago, it cannot be done. Thus it is important to make the best out of every generation.

  • If you ever read one of my books I hope you'll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you'll have to do that too.

  • Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

  • You know, if you look back in the 1930s, the money went to infrastructure. The bridges, the municipal buildings, the roads, those were all built with stimulus money spent on infrastructure. This stimulus bill has fundamentally gone, started out with a $500 rebate check, remember. That went to buy flat-screen TVs made in China.

  • Gold makes the ugly beautiful.