H. L. Burke Quotes

A perfect democracy is therefore the most shameless thing in the world.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

I don't need to make a fortune, I need to survive.

A woman isn't as old as she thinks she is. She's as old as men think she is.

But if people will laugh at my work and keep a sound roof over my head, who am I to complain?

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

I have found that by trusting people until they prove themselves unworthy of that trust, a lot more happens.

Leonard Chess passed, and that was the end of the Chess label for that time.

Impossible mountains are climbed by those who have the self confidence that comes from truly being loved.

The thing about filming is that it can be the most banal experience because it's slow and there's a lot of waiting around.

Jimmy Demaret and I had the best sports psychologist in the world. His name was Jack Daniels and he was waiting for us after every round.

Money can't buy happiness but it'll sure keep a mess of grief off your front porch.

THE ALLURE OF Montana is like a commitment to a narcotic; you can never use it up or get enough of it. Its wilderness areas probably resemble the earth on the first day of creation.

Laws, like houses, lean on one another.

Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

Dangers by being despised grow great.

I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.

And every good artist knows that the gift comes from somewhere else, and it's there for a reason, and that's to make the world a better place.

How do you caution a fawn about a cigarette a motorist has just flipped from his car window into a patch of yellow grass, or tell a sparrow that winged creatures eventually plummet to earth?

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

Turn over a new leaf.

Those who attempt to level never equalize

Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

The parties are the gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.

All men that are ruined, are ruined on the side of their natural propensities.

Genuine simplicity of heart is a healing and cementing principle.

In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.

A populace never rebels from passion for attack, but from impatience of suffering.

My vigour relents. I pardon something to the spirit of liberty.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

A stable climate is the most fundamental resource of all. No one has yet built a civilisation in an unstable climate

The only club in the bag specifically designed to get the ball in the cup is the putter. Why not learn it first?

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

I venture to say no war can be long carried on against the will of the people.

Crimes lead into one another. They who are capable of being forgers, are capable of being incendiaries.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Great men are the guideposts and landmarks in the state.

Equity money is dynamic and debt money is static.

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Evil succeeds when good men do nothing

An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

Our purpose is simply to ask how theological principles can be shown to have usable secular analogues that throw light upon the nature of language.

It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

Adversity is a severe instructor, set over us by one who knows us better than we do ourselves.

From time to time historians need to be shocked.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

It is known that the taste--whatever it is--is improved exactly as we improve our judgment, by extending our knowledge, by a steady attention to our object, and by frequent exercise.