A.P. Herbert Quotes

To a good spender God is the Treasurer.

Health without money is halfe an ague.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.

All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

A good Judge conceives quickly, judges slowly.

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

A person needs new experiences. They jar something deep inside, allowing you to grow. Without them, it sleeps- seldom to awaken. The sleeper must awaken.

The modern work of art, as I have said, is a symbol.

When God forgives our sin, he is not changing his mind about us; he is changing our mind about him.

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge.

The world is vast, beautiful, and fascinating, even awe-inspiring - but impersonal. It demands nothing of me, and allows me to demand nothing of it.

All correct reasoning is a grand system of tautologies, but only God can make direct use of that fact

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.

There is nothing that makes a man more self-satisfied than a poor memory.

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of EMERGENCY.

You may be sorry that you spoke, sorry you stayed or went, sorry you won or lost, sorry so much was spent. But as you go through life, you'll find - you're never sorry you were kind.

The durability of free speech and free press rests on the simple concept that it search for the truth and tell the truth.

The President is not only the leader of a party, he is the President of the whole people. He must interpret the conscience of America. He must guide his conduct by the idealism of our people.

The only problem with capitalism is the capitalists.

Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one directionally, without regret or reservation.

Better a barefoot than none.

Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.

No matter how much we ask after the truth, self-awareness is often unpleasant. We do not feel kindly toward the Truthsayer.

Government is essentially immoral.

Bless the Maker and His water. Bless the coming and going of Him. May His passage cleanse the world. May He keep the world for His people.

That is why I believe that art is so much more significant than either economics or philosophy. It is the direct measure of man's spiritual vision.

A crooked log makes a strait fire.

Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

Economic depression can not be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement.

The rage of a wild boar is able to spoil more then one wood.

Self-government can succeed only through an instructed electorate.

He that cockers his child, provides for his enemie.

A well-balanced person is one who finds both sides of an issue laughable.

Some are bent with toil, and some get crooked trying to avoid it.

Theology is that discipline whereby we stop talking nonsense about God.

How will I be remembered by my children? This is the true measure of a man.

There is more power in the open hand than in the clenched fist.

Think you of the fact that a deaf person cannot hear. Then, what deafness may we not all possess? What senses do we lack that we cannot see and cannot hear another world all around us?

Every generation has the right to build its own world out of the materials of the past, cemented by the hopes of the future.