Odell Shepard Quotes

United States, Professor
July 22, 1884 – July, 19, 1967.

Odell Shepard (July 22, 1884 in Sterling, Illinois – July 19, 1967 in New London, Connecticut) was an American professor, poet, and politician who was the 66th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut from 1941 to 1943. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938.

Also known as Poet, Politician

For what I give, not what I take,

Odell Shepard
One can enjoy a wood fire worthily only when he warms his thoughts by it as well as his hands and feet.

Odell Shepard
- Thoughts
- Fire

The question of historicity and actuality with regard to gods and unicorns is a relatively trifling matter which may be left to antiquarians and biologists, for both the god and the unicorn had a business to perform greater than any mere existence in the flesh could explain or provide a basis for.

Odell Shepard
- God
- May
- Business
It is always wise, as it is also fair, to test a man by the standards of his own day, and not by those of another.

Odell Shepard
- Wise
There are a few exceptions, however, to this rule that our projection of ourselves is lower than the facts of Nature, and the unicorn — noble, chaste, fierce yet beneficent, altruistic though solitary, strangely beautiful — is the clearest exception of all.

Odell Shepard
- Nature
- Beautiful
- Fierce
If the unicorn does live among the snows held up forever on the line of the Equator then it is clear why the world should know so little about them.

Odell Shepard
- Up
- World
- Live
There are people who not only strive to remain static themselves, but strive to keep everything else so... their position is almost laughably hopeless.

Odell Shepard
- People