wisdom Quotes

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.