John Milton Quotes

It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

John Milton

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• Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money
  • Power
  • Light

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Experience

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Manipulation

• Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Work
  • God
  • Tired

• I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Nice
  • Funeral

• If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Cat

• Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Thoughts

• It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Good
  • Sleep

• Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Name
  • Greatest
  • Accident

• Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Children

• I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Man
  • Way
  • Word

• Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Long
  • Education

• I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Up
  • Mind

• Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Think
  • Late
  • Repartee

• There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

  

  Mark Twain
  • People

• What I love - and I'm a journalist - and what I love is finding hidden patterns; I love being a data detective.

  

  David McCandless

• The first weekend after the attacks of September 11, George W. Bush had a meeting at Camp David with his top advisors, including Colin Powell, the secretary of state. And there was a lively debate about Iraq policy, in which some people from the Pentagon were arguing that the war against terrorism should include Saddam Hussein.

  

  Elaine Sciolino
  • People
  • War
  • Weekend

• But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

  

  Mark Twain
  • Humanity
  • Satan

• Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Real
  • Money
  • Game

• My room was a real way of expressing myself. It was like a little nest that I could settle into.

  

  Chloe Sevigny
  • Real

• Persons, especially salaried people who schedule their spare time, to provide for home study (or attend specialized short courses, seminars or training) seldom remain at the bottom very long. Their action opens the way for the upward climb, removes many obstacles from their path, and gains the friendly interest of those who have the power to put them in the way of opportunity.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in th' eclipse, and rigg'd with curses dark.

  

  John Milton