Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.Henry Ward Beecher
Quotes to Explore
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God has taken away the greatest man of his generation, for Dr. Livingstone stood alone.
Florence Nightingale -
Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
Ze Frank -
...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
Ze Frank -
Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
F. Lee Bailey -
It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
Mark Twain -
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
Mark Twain -
Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
Mark Twain -
We have the best government that money can buy.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
Mark Twain -
When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Mark Twain
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
Mark Twain -
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain -
All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
Mark Twain -
It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Mark Twain
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But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
Mark Twain -
Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
Mark Twain -
We have one of our priests in prison right now for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
Daniel Berrigan -
Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend.
Michelangelo -
I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.
William Butler Yeats -
No man can tell if he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.
Henry Ward Beecher