A.J. Russell Quotes
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death, because they are greater than anything he finds in himself, and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
My children have never watched any of my films. Charlie knows that daddy makes movies, but he says they are not good enough for him to watch.
My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man. I will spend every day making sure that they know this.
If you give a good thing to the world, then over time your karma will be good, and you'll receive good.
New York is the only city in the world where you can get run down on the sidewalk by a pedestrian.
There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.
Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
God is not dumb, that he should speak no more; If thou hast wanderings in the wilderness And find'st not Sinai, 'tis thy soul is poor.
It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment.
Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.
Ef you want peace, the thing you've gut to du Is jes' to show you're up to fightin', tu.
One learns more metaphysics from a single temptation than from all the philosophers.
Who gives himself with his alms feeds three, himself, his hungering neighbor and me.
Pride of origin, whether high or low, springs from the same principle in human nature; one is but the positive, the other the negative, pole of a single weakness.
In England, we have such good manners that if someone says something impolite, the police will get involved.
Consciousness exists beyond your head, between our heads, and it can manifest harmony.
What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.
I willingly confess to so great a partiality for trees as tempts me to respect a man in exact proportion to his respect for them.
The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous.
Of my merit On that pint you yourself may jedge: All is, I never drink no sperit, Nor I haint never signed no pledge.
