H.A. Lamb Quotes
Be not over solicitous about education. It may be able to do much, but it does not do as much as expected from it. It may mould and direct the character, but it rarely alters it.
If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
Neither man nor woman can be worth anything until they have discovered that they are fools. The sooner the discovery is made the better, as there is more time and power for taking advantage of it.
For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord.
Shall I ask the brave soldier who fights by my side In the cause of mankind, if our creeds agree?
We do not go to the theatre like our ancestors, to escape from the pressure of reality, so much as to confirm our experience of it.
All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
The measure of choosing well, is, whether a man likes and finds good in what he has chosen.
A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.
Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been, and must wait upon the tedious shores of Lethe millions of ages before we have existence, and a name.
... but to remain historically accurate, I would have had to leave out an important question that I felt needed to be addressed, which is, 'What if Jesus had known kung fu?
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.
It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.
I know that a sweet child is the sweetest thing in nature, not even excepting the delicate creatures which bear them.
It doesn't matter what we say , so long as we all say the same thing.
That is no use at all. What I want is men who will support me when I am in the wrong.
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
Is the world all grown up? Is childhood dead? Or is there not in the bosom of the wisest and the best some of the child's heart left, to respond to its earliest enchantments?
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
